scope:

1. This Directive shall apply to all non-automatic weighing instruments. 2. For the purposes of this Directive, the following categories of use of non-automatic weighing instruments shall be distinguished: (a) determination of mass for commercial transactions; (b) determination of mass for the calculation of a toll, tariff, tax, bonus, penalty, remuneration, indemnity or similar type of payment; (c) determination of mass for the application of laws or regulations or for an expert opinion given in court proceedings; (d) determination of mass in the practice of medicine for weighing patients for the purposes of monitoring, diagnosis and medical treatment; (e) determination of mass for making up medicines on prescription in a pharmacy and determination of mass in analyses carried out in medical and pharmaceutical laboratories; (f) determination of price on the basis of mass for the purposes of direct sales to the public and the making-up of prepackages; (g) all applications other than those listed in points (a) to (f).