EC Type approval scales and the ‘CE M20’ sticker
According to the EU directives 2014/31/UE and 2009/23/CE balances and scales used in the areas of commerce, health and public administration
must be verified. The applications requiring the mandatory use of EC type approval instruments are specified in article 1.2(a) of the Directive and are:
- Determination of mass for commercial transactions
- Determination of mass for the calculation of a toll, tariff, tax, bonus, penalty or similar type of payment
- Determination of mass for the application of laws or regulations and expert opinion given in court proceedings
- Determination of mass in the practice of medicine for the weighing of patients for the purpose of monitoring, diagnosis and medical treatment
- 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 - Determination of price on the basis of the mass for the purpose of direct sales to the public and the making-up of pre-packages
Balances and scales for which CE conformity has been established according to the above mentioned Directives are identified by a sticker bearing a capital letter ‘M’ printed in black and the last two digits of the year of the marking placement
