{ "$schema": "https://www.conphora.com/schemas/regulation-page.json", "code": "MetrD", "locale": "en", "url": "https://www.conphora.com/regulations/metrd/", "json": "https://www.conphora.com/regulations/metrd.json", "summaryPdf": "https://www.conphora.com/regulations/metrd/summary.pdf", "dateModified": "2026-09-12", "regulation": { "code": "MetrD", "name": "Directive 2009/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 relating to common provisions for both measuring instruments and methods of metrological control (Recast)", "shortName": "Metrology Framework Directive", "reference": "Directive 2009/34/EC", "celex": "32009L0034", "eurlex": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32009L0034", "actType": "Directive", "category": "Measuring Instruments", "inForce": "2009-05-18", "appliesFrom": "2009-05-18", "changing": false, "video": "regulation-metrd" }, "answer": "The Metrology Framework Directive sets the EC pattern approval and EC initial verification procedures and marks of the old-approach metrology system, applied by its separate directives and accepted in every Member State. It entered into force on 18 May 2009 as a recast of Directive 71/316/EEC and was adapted to delegated acts by Regulation (EU) 2019/1243 from 26 July 2019.", "description": "MetrD guide: the metrology framework directive 2009/34/EC, the EC pattern approval and EC initial verification procedures, the epsilon signs and the e mark, which separate directives still use them after the MID and Directive 2011/17/EU, and how Denmark applies it.", "enforcedBy": "The metrological services of the Member States apply the directive: they grant, extend and withdraw EC pattern approval, carry out EC initial verification, affix the verification marks, prevent the use of confusable marks and may forbid the placing on the market and putting into service of instruments whose approved pattern shows a general defect, with every refusal, withdrawal or prohibition reasoned and open to the national remedies; since 16 July 2021 the directive is point 28 of Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, so the national market surveillance authorities also hold that regulation's investigation and enforcement powers for it. In Denmark the directive is implemented by bekendtgørelse nr. 1139 af 15. december 2003 om EØF-typegodkendelse og -verifikation, under which Sikkerhedsstyrelsen receives applications for and grants EØF-typegodkendelse and authorises the accredited laboratories that carry out EØF-førstegangsverifikation, and since 1 July 2021 legal metrology falls under the product act (lov om produkter og markedsovervågning), which lists the directive in section 2, names Erhvervsstyrelsen as the control authority and provides orders, prohibitions and fines that can rise to imprisonment of up to 2 years under aggravating circumstances; since January 2026 Sikkerhedsstyrelsen is the department Markedsovervågning of Erhvervsstyrelsen.", "keyDates": [ { "date": "1971-07-26", "label": "Council Directive 71/316/EEC adopted, the original common provisions for measuring instruments and methods of metrological control that Directive 2009/34/EC recasts; transposition deadline 30 January 1973", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Annex III, Part A and Part B" }, { "date": "2004-01-01", "label": "Danish executive order 1139 of 15 December 2003 on EØF-typegodkendelse og -verifikation enters into force, replacing executive order 154 of 10 March 1995; approvals issued under the old order remain valid until they expire or are withdrawn", "source": "https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2003/1139 · § 25 and the official note" }, { "date": "2006-10-30", "label": "Measuring Instruments Directive 2004/22/EC applies and repeals eleven old-approach instrument directives adopted under Directive 71/316/EEC: gas meters, meters for liquids other than water and their ancillary equipment, material measures of length, cold-water meters as regards MI-001, continuous totalising weighing machines, electrical energy meters, taximeters, measuring systems for liquids other than water, automatic checkweighing and weight-grading machines and hot-water meters", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02004L0022-20091201 · Art. 22, Art. 23 and Art. 24" }, { "date": "2009-04-23", "label": "Directive 2009/34/EC adopted by the European Parliament and the Council as a recast of Directive 71/316/EEC; published in OJ L 106 of 28 April 2009", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32009L0034 · title and OJ reference" }, { "date": "2009-05-18", "label": "Entry into force, the twentieth day after publication; Directive 71/316/EEC as amended by the acts in Annex III, Part A is repealed and references to it are read as references to the recast per the Annex IV correlation table", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32009L0034 · Art. 20 and Art. 21; https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32009L0034 · document information, dates" }, { "date": "2010-04-01", "label": "Danish executive order 349 of 30 March 2010 in force: EØF-typegodkendelse is applied for and granted by Sikkerhedsstyrelsen, which replaces Den Danske Akkrediterings- og Metrologifond throughout the order and authorises the verification laboratories", "source": "https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2010/349 · § 1, nr. 2 to 5, and § 2" }, { "date": "2011-04-07", "label": "Directive 2011/17/EU in force, the twentieth day after publication in OJ L 71 of 18 March 2011: it repeals the eight remaining instrument directives adopted under Directive 71/316/EEC in two steps", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32011L0017 · recital 2, Art. 1 to Art. 3 and Art. 7" }, { "date": "2011-07-01", "label": "Directive 71/349/EEC on the calibration of the tanks of vessels repealed; EC initial verifications carried out and calibration certificates issued until 30 June 2011 remain valid", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32011L0017 · Art. 1, Art. 5(1) and Art. 6(1)" }, { "date": "2015-12-01", "label": "Directives 71/317/EEC and 74/148/EEC on weights, 71/347/EEC on the standard mass of grain, 75/33/EEC on cold-water meters, 76/765/EEC on alcoholometers, 76/766/EEC on alcohol tables and 86/217/EEC on tyre pressure gauges repealed; EC pattern approvals and certificates issued until 30 November 2015 under Directives 71/347/EEC, 75/33/EEC, 76/765/EEC and 86/217/EEC remain valid (Article 6(2)); weights conforming to Directives 71/317/EEC and 74/148/EEC could instead be subject to EC initial verification until 30 November 2025 (Article 6(3)), and Directive 76/766/EEC on alcohol tables has no transitional provision", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32011L0017 · Art. 2, Art. 3, Art. 5(2) and Art. 6(2)" }, { "date": "2016-04-20", "label": "Directive 2014/32/EU (MID) and Directive 2014/31/EU (NAWI) apply: the ten MID instrument categories and all non-automatic weighing instruments follow the new-approach conformity assessment with CE marking, not the EC pattern approval and EC initial verification of this directive", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02014L0032-20150127 · Art. 2(1), Art. 51 and Art. 52; https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0031 · Art. 1(1), Art. 45 and Art. 46" }, { "date": "2019-07-26", "label": "Regulation (EU) 2019/1243 in force: Article 5(3) on limited approvals deleted, Article 16 replaced by an empowerment to amend Annexes I and II by delegated act, Article 16a inserted with a five-year delegation from this date, Article 17 on the committee deleted", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1243 · Annex, section VII (Internal market, industry, entrepreneurship and SMEs), point 5; https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 16 and Art. 16a" }, { "date": "2020-06-13", "label": "Commission Directive (EU) 2019/1258 applies: adopted under Article 16 of this directive, it aligns the SI base unit definitions in the Annex to Directive 80/181/EEC with the 2018 decision of the General Conference on Weights and Measures", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019L1258 · citations, recital 2, Art. 1 and Art. 2" }, { "date": "2021-07-01", "label": "Legal metrology in Denmark comes under the product act (lov om produkter og markedsovervågning), which lists the directive on common provisions for measuring instruments and methods of metrological control in section 2", "source": "https://sik.dk/erhverv/produkter/love-og-regler/vaegte-og-maalere/regler-og-vejledning-maaling-vaegt-og-e-maerkning; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2026/22 · § 2, stk. 1, nr. 15" }, { "date": "2021-07-16", "label": "Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 applies: Directive 2009/34/EC is point 28 of its Annex I, so market surveillance authorities hold the regulation's powers for it; the directive is not in Annex II, so the penalty duty of Article 41 attaches through national law rather than to the directive itself", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1020 · Art. 14, Art. 16, Art. 41, Art. 44, Annex I point 28 and Annex II" }, { "date": "2024-07-26", "label": "End of the first five-year period of the Commission's delegated power under Article 16a(2); the delegation is tacitly extended for identical periods unless the European Parliament or the Council opposes no later than three months before the end of each period", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 16a(2)" }, { "date": "2025-11-30", "label": "Last day on which weights conforming to Directives 71/317/EEC and 74/148/EEC may be subject to EC initial verification under Articles 8, 9 and 10 of this directive", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32011L0017 · Art. 6(3)" }, { "date": "2026-01-01", "label": "Sikkerhedsstyrelsen becomes the department Markedsovervågning of Erhvervsstyrelsen and continues the same tasks, including EØF-typegodkendelse and the authorisation of verification laboratories", "source": "https://erhvervsstyrelsen.dk/sikkerhedsstyrelsen-en-del-af-erhvervsstyrelsen; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2026/22 · § 9" } ], "amendedBy": [ { "reference": "Regulation (EU) 2019/1243", "celex": "32019R1243", "date": "2019-07-26", "summary": "The regulation of 20 June 2019 adapting acts providing for the regulatory procedure with scrutiny to Articles 290 and 291 TFEU, published in OJ L 198 of 25 July 2019 and in force the day after, deleted Article 5(3), under which Member States that had granted limited EC pattern approvals applied for adaptation of Annexes I and II, because such approvals no longer exist; replaced Article 16 so that the Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts amending Annexes I and II to adapt them to technical progress; inserted Article 16a conferring that power for five years from 26 July 2019 with tacit extension, revocation, expert consultation and a three-month objection period; and deleted Article 17 on the committee.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1243 · Annex, section VII (Internal market, industry, entrepreneurship and SMEs), point 5; https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 5, Art. 16 and Art. 16a" } ], "scope": { "appliesTo": [ "Instruments, meaning measuring instruments, components of measuring instruments, additional devices and measurement equipment, for which a separate directive adopted under the framework prescribes EC pattern approval or EC initial verification", "Units of measurement, the harmonisation of methods of measurement and metrological control and the means needed to apply them, as regulated by the separate directives", "The prescription, methods of measurement, metrological control and marking of quantities of prepackaged products, as regulated by the separate directives on prepackages and measuring container bottles", "Manufacturers and their representatives established in the Community who apply for EC pattern approval, submit instruments for EC initial verification or affix the exemption signs on their own responsibility", "Instruments and products bearing the EC signs and marks, which Member States may not prevent, prohibit or restrict from being placed on the market or put into service" ], "derived": [ "The directive is a framework: it fixes the procedures and the signs, while the separate directives fix the measurement procedures, characteristics and technical requirements of each instrument category and may set the date on which national provisions are replaced (Art. 1(5) and Art. 1(6))", "The separate instrument directives no longer exist: Directive 2004/22/EC repealed eleven of them from 30 October 2006 and Directive 2011/17/EU repealed the remaining eight, the last on 1 December 2015; EC pattern approvals and certificates issued until 30 November 2015 under Directives 71/347/EEC, 75/33/EEC, 76/765/EEC and 86/217/EEC remain valid (Article 6(2)); weights conforming to Directives 71/317/EEC and 74/148/EEC could instead be subject to EC initial verification until 30 November 2025 (Article 6(3)), and Directive 76/766/EEC on alcohol tables has no transitional provision (Directive 2004/22/EC, Art. 22; Directive 2011/17/EU, Art. 1 to Art. 3 and Art. 6)", "What still refers to the framework are the reversed-epsilon sign of Article 6 on measuring container bottles, the small e of Annex II section 3, to which Article 12 on confusable marks applies mutatis mutandis, and the further-checks point of the prepackage directive, which applies Article 15 mutatis mutandis, and, historically, Article 16, under which the Commission amended the units of measurement directive in 2019; since 26 July 2019 the empowerment in Article 16 reaches only Annexes I and II of this directive, not the annexes of the separate directives (Directive 75/107/EEC, Annex I point 5; Directive 76/211/EEC, Annex I points 3.3 and 6; Directive (EU) 2019/1258, citations and recital 2)", "Measuring instruments in the MID categories and all non-automatic weighing instruments are made available with CE marking under Directives 2014/32/EU and 2014/31/EU, which apply from 20 April 2016, so EC pattern approval and EC initial verification do not apply to them (Directive 2014/32/EU, Art. 2(1), Art. 7 and Art. 51; Directive 2014/31/EU, Art. 1(1) and Art. 46)", "Since 16 July 2021 the directive is Union harmonisation legislation under Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, Annex I point 28, so its market surveillance authorities may demand documents and supply-chain information, order corrective action and prohibit, withdraw or recall non-compliant products (Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, Art. 14 and Art. 16)" ], "categories": [ { "id": "ec-marked-old-approach-instrument", "label": "Instrument in service that bears an EC pattern approval sign or EC initial verification mark issued under a former separate directive" }, { "id": "measuring-container-bottle", "label": "Bottle made as a measuring container and marked with the reversed-epsilon sign under Directive 75/107/EEC" }, { "id": "prepackage-e-mark", "label": "Prepackage made up by weight or volume and marked with the small e under Directive 76/211/EEC" }, { "id": "mid-instrument", "label": "Water, gas, electricity or thermal energy meter, fuel dispenser or other liquid measuring system, automatic weighing instrument, taximeter, material measure, dimensional instrument or exhaust gas analyser" }, { "id": "nawi-instrument", "label": "Non-automatic weighing instrument such as a shop, industrial or medical scale" }, { "id": "repealed-directive-instrument", "label": "Weight, grain-mass instrument, ship-tank calibration, cold-water meter, alcoholometer, alcohol table or tyre pressure gauge formerly covered by a directive repealed by Directive 2011/17/EU" }, { "id": "national-control-instrument", "label": "Measuring instrument under national metrological control only, with no separate EU directive" }, { "id": "no-legal-control", "label": "Measuring device not used for a measurement on which a payment, tax, fine or legal decision is based" } ], "roles": [ { "id": "manufacturer", "label": "Manufacturer", "definition": "The manufacturer of an instrument, who alone or through his representative established within the Community may apply for EC pattern approval, in one Member State only, who affixes the EC approval sign to instruments conforming to the approved pattern, and who, where a separate directive does not require EC pattern approval or EC initial verification, affixes the special sign or symbol on his own responsibility.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 2(4), Art. 4, Art. 6, Art. 11 and Annex I point 1.2(a)" }, { "id": "other", "label": "Authorised representative established in the Community", "definition": "The representative of the manufacturer established within the Community, who may make the application for EC pattern approval in the manufacturer's place and whose name and address appear in the application.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 2(4) and Annex I point 1.2(a)" }, { "id": "importer", "label": "Importer", "definition": "Any natural or legal person established within the Union who places a product from a third country on the Union market; an economic operator for Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, whose Annex I lists this directive, and an erhvervsdrivende under the Danish product act.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1020 · Art. 3, points (9) and (13), and Annex I point 28; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2026/22 · § 4, nr. 1" }, { "id": "distributor", "label": "Distributor (wholesaler or retailer)", "definition": "Any natural or legal person in the supply chain, other than the manufacturer or the importer, who makes a product available on the market; an economic operator for Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and an erhvervsdrivende under the Danish product act.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1020 · Art. 3, points (10) and (13), and Annex I point 28; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2026/22 · § 4, nr. 1" }, { "id": "operator", "label": "Instrument owner or user in legally controlled measurement", "definition": "The person who uses an instrument bearing EC signs or marks in service, subject to the in-service control requirements that the separate directives specify; in Denmark the instrumentejer, the natural or legal person who uses or makes available an instrument for a measurement on which a payment is based.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 8(4) and Art. 15; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2026/22 · § 4, nr. 2, and § 5, stk. 4" } ], "rules": [ { "categories": [ "mid-instrument" ], "roles": [ "*" ], "size": "any", "result": "out-of-scope", "note": "The ten MID categories, water, gas, electricity and thermal energy meters, measuring systems for liquids other than water, automatic weighing instruments, taximeters, material measures, dimensional instruments and exhaust gas analysers, are made available with CE marking under Directive 2014/32/EU; the old-approach directives for these instruments were repealed from 30 October 2006, and Directive (EU) 2026/706 adds EV charging and compressed gas dispenser measuring systems to the MID from 10 October 2028.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02014L0032-20150127 · Art. 2(1) and Art. 7; https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02004L0022-20091201 · Art. 22; https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32026L0706 · Art. 1, point (1), and Art. 3" }, { "categories": [ "nawi-instrument" ], "roles": [ "*" ], "size": "any", "result": "out-of-scope", "note": "Directive 2014/31/EU applies to all non-automatic weighing instruments, which follow its conformity assessment and CE marking, not the EC pattern approval and EC initial verification of this directive.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0031 · Art. 1(1) and Art. 46" }, { "categories": [ "repealed-directive-instrument" ], "roles": [ "*" ], "size": "any", "result": "out-of-scope", "note": "Directive 71/349/EEC was repealed on 1 July 2011 and Directives 71/317/EEC, 71/347/EEC, 74/148/EEC, 75/33/EEC, 76/765/EEC, 76/766/EEC and 86/217/EEC on 1 December 2015; new EC pattern approvals under them are no longer possible; EC pattern approvals and certificates issued until 30 November 2015 under Directives 71/347/EEC, 75/33/EEC, 76/765/EEC and 86/217/EEC remain valid (Article 6(2)), weights conforming to Directives 71/317/EEC and 74/148/EEC could instead be subject to EC initial verification until 30 November 2025 (Article 6(3)), and Directive 76/766/EEC on alcohol tables has no transitional provision.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32011L0017 · Art. 1, Art. 2, Art. 3 and Art. 6" }, { "categories": [ "no-legal-control" ], "roles": [ "*" ], "size": "any", "result": "out-of-scope", "note": "The directive's procedures and signs are engaged only through a separate directive or a national requirement of metrological control; a device not used for a measurement on which a payment, tax, fine or legal decision depends is outside legal metrology, which in Denmark covers measurements that form the basis of a payment.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 1(5) and Art. 15; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2026/22 · § 4, nr. 2; https://www.sik.dk/erhverv/produkter/maaling-og-vaegt-metrologi/vejledninger/legal-maaling-og-vejning-legal-metrologi" }, { "categories": [ "measuring-container-bottle" ], "roles": [ "manufacturer", "importer", "distributor" ], "size": "any", "result": "in-scope", "note": "The reversed-epsilon sign on a measuring container bottle is the sign of Article 6 of this directive, described in Annex I point 3.3, affixed by the manufacturer on his own responsibility; Denmark applies it through executive order 590 of 2018 on bottles as measuring containers, and Member States may not refuse bottles bearing it for reasons of volume or checking.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 1(3), Art. 6 and Annex I point 3.3; https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:31975L0107 · Art. 2, Art. 3 and Annex I point 5" }, { "categories": [ "prepackage-e-mark" ], "roles": [ "manufacturer", "importer", "distributor", "other" ], "size": "any", "result": "in-scope", "note": "The small e on a prepackage takes its form from the drawing in Annex II section 3 of this directive, the prohibition of confusable marks in Article 12 applies to it, and further checks by the competent departments follow the in-service control article; the prepackage requirements themselves are in Directive 76/211/EEC.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:01976L0211-20190726 · Annex I points 3.3 and 6; https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 12, Art. 15 and Annex II point 3" }, { "categories": [ "ec-marked-old-approach-instrument" ], "roles": [ "manufacturer", "other" ], "size": "any", "result": "in-scope", "note": "An instrument bearing the EC approval sign or the EC initial verification mark may not be refused for placing on the market or entry into service by any Member State; the acceptance duty for verified instruments lasts until the end of the year following the year of the mark unless a separate directive provides longer, the approval continues to apply to instruments already in service, and the granting Member State may withdraw the approval and forbid the instruments if a general defect appears.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 1(3), Art. 5(1), Art. 7 and Art. 8(4)" }, { "categories": [ "ec-marked-old-approach-instrument" ], "roles": [ "importer", "distributor", "operator" ], "size": "any", "result": "in-scope", "note": "Instruments bearing EC signs or marks that are in service are controlled under the in-service requirements the separate directives specify, in Denmark under the general rules for instruments subject to control and the product act; economic operators must give the market surveillance authority documents and supply-chain information and take the corrective action it requires.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 15; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2003/1139 · § 19 and § 20; https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1020 · Art. 14(4) and Art. 16" }, { "categories": [ "national-control-instrument" ], "roles": [ "*" ], "size": "any", "result": "depends", "note": "Where no separate directive covers an instrument, the directive gives no EC procedure or sign; the instrument follows the national metrological control of the Member State of use, in Denmark the product act and the executive orders on the use of measuring instruments, and only a national type approval and verification apply.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 1(5), Art. 1(6) and Art. 15; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2026/22 · § 2, stk. 2, nr. 3, and § 8 a; https://sik.dk/erhverv/produkter/love-og-regler/vaegte-og-maalere/regler-og-vejledning-maaling-vaegt-og-e-maerkning" }, { "categories": [ "*" ], "roles": [ "*" ], "size": "any", "result": "depends", "note": "Whether the directive applies turns on whether a separate directive still in force refers to its procedures or signs for your instrument or product, whether the instrument instead falls under the MID or the NAWI Directive, and whether it is used for a legally controlled measurement.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 1 and Art. 2(1)" } ] }, "obligations": { "manufacturer": [ { "text": "Apply for EC pattern approval yourself or through your representative established in the Community, in one Member State only for one and the same instrument, in the official language of that Member State, sending a copy of the application to every other Member State at the same time.", "id": "metrd-mfr-apply-pattern-approval", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 2(4) and Annex I point 1.1" }, { "text": "State in the application your name and address or those of your representative, the category of instrument, the intended use, the measurement characteristics and the commercial designation or type, and enclose in duplicate a description of the construction and operation, the protecting arrangements, the regulation and adjustment devices and the intended locations of verification marks and seals, general arrangement and detail drawings, a schematic drawing and, where relevant, existing national approvals.", "id": "metrd-mfr-state-application-name", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Annex I points 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4" }, { "text": "Put the standards, material and assisting personnel that the metrological service requires at its disposal for the approval examination, which covers the entire performance of the instrument under normal conditions of use, and deposit a sample instrument, parts, scale models or drawings where the service requests it.", "id": "metrd-mfr-put-standards-material", "kind": "procedure", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Annex I points 2.2, 2.4 and 4" }, { "text": "Affix the EC approval sign shown in the certificate, the stylised epsilon with the Member State letters and the last two digits of the year above and the identification number below, to each instrument conforming to the approved pattern where Article 11 or a separate directive requires it, and otherwise at your option; the sign must be visible, legible and indelible.", "id": "metrd-mfr-affix-approval-sign", "kind": "mark", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 4 and Annex I points 3.1 and 3.5" }, { "text": "Keep the granting Member State informed of any modification of or addition to the approved pattern and obtain additional EC pattern approval where the change influences or might influence measurement results or the prescribed conditions of use; where the rules have changed so that the modified pattern could be approved only under the new provisions, a new approval is needed instead.", "id": "metrd-mfr-keep-granting-member", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 2(5)" }, { "text": "Watch the validity of the approval: it lasts 10 years, may be extended for successive periods of 10 years, cannot be extended after an amendment or adaptation of the Community provisions under which it could no longer be granted, and continues to apply to instruments already in service; a limited approval for a new technique lasts at most two years, extendable by up to three.", "id": "metrd-mfr-watch-validity-approval", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "periodic", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 5(1) and Art. 5(2)" }, { "text": "Submit new or reconditioned instruments for EC initial verification with the measurement characteristics and the technical construction and functioning requirements of the separate directive, and where verification takes place outside the office, provide the standards, means and assisting personnel and a copy of the EC approval certificate; where a separate directive exempts the category from approval or verification, affix instead the reversed-epsilon sign or the approval sign in a hexagon on your own responsibility.", "id": "metrd-mfr-submit-new-reconditioned", "kind": "procedure", "level": "lot", "timing": "per-lot", "retired": "2026-09-24", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 6, Art. 8, Art. 11, Annex I points 3.3 and 3.4 and Annex II point 2.3" }, { "text": "Submit new or reconditioned instruments for EC initial verification against the separate directive's measurement and construction requirements and, where verification takes place outside the office, provide the standards, means, assisting personnel and a copy of the EC approval certificate.", "id": "metrd-mfr-submit-initial-verification", "kind": "procedure", "level": "lot", "timing": "per-lot", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 6, Art. 8 and Annex II point 2.3" }, { "text": "Where a separate directive exempts the category from EC pattern approval or initial verification, affix the reversed-epsilon sign or the approval sign in a hexagon on your own responsibility.", "id": "metrd-mfr-affix-exemption-sign", "kind": "mark", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 11 and Annex I points 3.3 and 3.4" }, { "text": "Bring instruments into conformity with the approved pattern or the separate directive when warned, since otherwise the Member State may forbid their placing on the market and putting into service, and never use marks or inscriptions liable to be confused with the EC signs or marks; in Denmark a breach of the marking and confusion rules is punishable by a fine.", "id": "metrd-mfr-bring-instruments-conformity", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "retired": "2026-09-24", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 7(4) and Art. 12; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2003/1139 · § 11, § 18 and § 24" }, { "text": "When warned, bring instruments into conformity with the approved pattern or the separate directive; otherwise the Member State may forbid their placing on the market and putting into service.", "id": "metrd-mfr-bring-conformity-warned", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 7(4)" }, { "text": "Never use marks or inscriptions liable to be confused with the EC signs or marks; in Denmark a breach of the marking and confusion rules is punishable by a fine.", "id": "metrd-mfr-avoid-confusing-marks", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 12; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2003/1139 · § 11, § 18 and § 24" } ], "other": [ { "text": "Make the application for EC pattern approval in the manufacturer's place only if you are established within the Community, in one Member State only, giving your name and address in the application.", "id": "metrd-oth-make-application-pattern", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 2(4) and Annex I point 1.2(a)" }, { "text": "Send a copy of the application simultaneously to all Member States and draw it up, with the correspondence and where required the annexed documents, in the official language of the Member State applied to.", "id": "metrd-oth-send-copy-application", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Annex I point 1.1" }, { "text": "Receive the EC pattern approval certificate as applicant and, where the approval is refused, not extended or withdrawn, or verification is refused, expect a reasoned decision with information on the national remedies and their time limits.", "id": "metrd-oth-receive-pattern-approval", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "retired": "2026-09-24", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 4 and Art. 18" }, { "text": "In Denmark, apply to Sikkerhedsstyrelsen for EØF-typegodkendelse with documentation that the instrument meets the legal requirements, and know that decisions may be brought before the agency and that giving incorrect or misleading information in connection with a decision is punishable by a fine.", "id": "metrd-oth-apply-sikkerhedsstyrelsen-f-typegodkendelse", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2010/349 · § 1, nr. 2; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2003/1139 · § 22 and § 24" } ], "importer": [ { "text": "Place on the market only instruments and products whose EC signs or marks were affixed in accordance with the directive and the separate directive concerned; a Member State may not restrict such products, but may act against instruments that do not conform to the approved pattern.", "id": "metrd-imp-place-market-instruments", "kind": "verification", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 1(3) and Art. 7" }, { "text": "On request, provide the market surveillance authority with documents, technical specifications, data or information on the compliance of the product and with information on the supply chain, the distribution network, the quantities on the market and other models with the same technical characteristics.", "id": "metrd-imp-provide-market-surveillance", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "authority-cooperation", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1020 · Art. 14(4), points (a) and (b), and Annex I point 28" }, { "text": "Take the corrective action the authority requires within the period it sets where the product does not conform, which may include bringing it into compliance, preventing it from being made available, or withdrawing or recalling it.", "id": "metrd-imp-take-corrective-action", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1020 · Art. 16(1), (2) and (3)" }, { "text": "In Denmark, ensure as erhvervsdrivende that a product you place on the market meets the rules of the product act and the rules made under it, and expect orders to remedy, stop sales, withdraw, recall or destroy a non-compliant product, with fines for failing to give information or access or for disregarding a decision.", "id": "metrd-imp-ensure-erhvervsdrivende-product", "kind": "verification", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2026/22 · § 4, nr. 1, § 5, stk. 1, § 14 and § 37" } ], "distributor": [ { "text": "Make available only instruments and products bearing EC signs or marks affixed in accordance with the directive and the separate directive concerned, and never affix or tolerate marks or inscriptions liable to be confused with them.", "id": "metrd-dist-make-available-instruments", "kind": "verification", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 1(3) and Art. 12" }, { "text": "On request, provide the market surveillance authority with the documents and supply-chain information it needs and give it access for on-site inspections and physical checks.", "id": "metrd-dist-provide-market-surveillance", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "authority-cooperation", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1020 · Art. 14(4), points (a), (b), (d) and (e), and Annex I point 28" }, { "text": "Take the corrective action the authority requires within the period it sets, including stopping the making available or withdrawing or recalling the product.", "id": "metrd-dist-take-corrective-action", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1020 · Art. 16(2) and Art. 16(3)" }, { "text": "In Denmark, comply with orders and prohibitions of the control authority under the product act, which may be addressed to anyone who has been a link in the sale of a product, and note that disregarding them is punishable by a fine.", "id": "metrd-dist-comply-orders-prohibitions", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "retired": "2026-09-24", "source": "https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2026/22 · § 14, § 16 and § 37" } ], "operator": [ { "text": "Use an instrument bearing EC signs or marks only within the in-service control requirements, in particular the maximum errors permitted in service, that the separate directive specifies; where none applies, the national rules for comparable instruments serve as the criteria.", "id": "metrd-op-use-instrument-bearing", "kind": "standing", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "retired": "2026-09-24", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 15; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2003/1139 · § 19 and § 20" }, { "text": "Note that the acceptance duty for an instrument bearing the EC initial verification mark lasts until the end of the year following the year in which the mark was affixed unless a separate directive provides longer; after that, the national in-service rules govern.", "id": "metrd-op-note-acceptance-duty", "kind": "status", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "retired": "2026-09-24", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 8(4)" }, { "text": "In Denmark, as instrumentejer ensure that an instrument used for a measurement on which a payment is based meets the product act and the rules made under it, even if you are not an erhvervsdrivende.", "id": "metrd-op-instrumentejer-ensure-instrument", "kind": "verification", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "retired": "2026-09-24", "source": "https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2026/22 · § 4, nr. 2, and § 5, stk. 4" }, { "text": "Expect the control authority to order you to bring a non-compliant instrument used for payment-based measurement into conformity, or to forbid its use for such measurement, and comply with the order.", "id": "metrd-op-expect-control-authority", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "retired": "2026-09-24", "source": "https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2026/22 · § 16 a and § 37, stk. 1, nr. 6" } ] }, "requirements": [ { "id": "metrd-mfr-apply-pattern-approval", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "text": "Apply for EC pattern approval yourself or through your representative established in the Community, in one Member State only for one and the same instrument, in the official language of that Member State, sending a copy of the application to every other Member State at the same time.", "article": "Art. 2(4) and Annex I point 1.1", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726" }, { "id": "metrd-mfr-state-application-name", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "text": "State in the application your name and address or those of your representative, the category of instrument, the intended use, the measurement characteristics and the commercial designation or type, and enclose in duplicate a description of the construction and operation, the protecting arrangements, the regulation and adjustment devices and the intended locations of verification marks and seals, general arrangement and detail drawings, a schematic drawing and, where relevant, existing national approvals.", "article": "Annex I points 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726" }, { "id": "metrd-mfr-put-standards-material", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "procedure", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "text": "Put the standards, material and assisting personnel that the metrological service requires at its disposal for the approval examination, which covers the entire performance of the instrument under normal conditions of use, and deposit a sample instrument, parts, scale models or drawings where the service requests it.", "article": "Annex I points 2.2, 2.4 and 4", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726" }, { "id": "metrd-mfr-affix-approval-sign", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "mark", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "text": "Affix the EC approval sign shown in the certificate, the stylised epsilon with the Member State letters and the last two digits of the year above and the identification number below, to each instrument conforming to the approved pattern where Article 11 or a separate directive requires it, and otherwise at your option; the sign must be visible, legible and indelible.", "article": "Art. 4 and Annex I points 3.1 and 3.5", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726" }, { "id": "metrd-mfr-keep-granting-member", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "text": "Keep the granting Member State informed of any modification of or addition to the approved pattern and obtain additional EC pattern approval where the change influences or might influence measurement results or the prescribed conditions of use; where the rules have changed so that the modified pattern could be approved only under the new provisions, a new approval is needed instead.", "article": "Art. 2(5)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726" }, { "id": "metrd-mfr-watch-validity-approval", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "periodic", "text": "Watch the validity of the approval: it lasts 10 years, may be extended for successive periods of 10 years, cannot be extended after an amendment or adaptation of the Community provisions under which it could no longer be granted, and continues to apply to instruments already in service; a limited approval for a new technique lasts at most two years, extendable by up to three.", "article": "Art. 5(1) and Art. 5(2)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726" }, { "id": "metrd-mfr-submit-new-reconditioned", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "procedure", "level": "lot", "timing": "per-lot", "retired": "2026-09-24", "text": "Submit new or reconditioned instruments for EC initial verification with the measurement characteristics and the technical construction and functioning requirements of the separate directive, and where verification takes place outside the office, provide the standards, means and assisting personnel and a copy of the EC approval certificate; where a separate directive exempts the category from approval or verification, affix instead the reversed-epsilon sign or the approval sign in a hexagon on your own responsibility.", "article": "Art. 6, Art. 8, Art. 11, Annex I points 3.3 and 3.4 and Annex II point 2.3", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726" }, { "id": "metrd-mfr-submit-initial-verification", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "procedure", "level": "lot", "timing": "per-lot", "text": "Submit new or reconditioned instruments for EC initial verification against the separate directive's measurement and construction requirements and, where verification takes place outside the office, provide the standards, means, assisting personnel and a copy of the EC approval certificate.", "article": "Art. 6, Art. 8 and Annex II point 2.3", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726" }, { "id": "metrd-mfr-affix-exemption-sign", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "mark", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "text": "Where a separate directive exempts the category from EC pattern approval or initial verification, affix the reversed-epsilon sign or the approval sign in a hexagon on your own responsibility.", "article": "Art. 11 and Annex I points 3.3 and 3.4", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726" }, { "id": "metrd-mfr-bring-instruments-conformity", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "retired": "2026-09-24", "text": "Bring instruments into conformity with the approved pattern or the separate directive when warned, since otherwise the Member State may forbid their placing on the market and putting into service, and never use marks or inscriptions liable to be confused with the EC signs or marks; in Denmark a breach of the marking and confusion rules is punishable by a fine.", "article": "Art. 7(4) and Art. 12; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2003/1139 · § 11, § 18 and § 24", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726" }, { "id": "metrd-mfr-bring-conformity-warned", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "text": "When warned, bring instruments into conformity with the approved pattern or the separate directive; otherwise the Member State may forbid their placing on the market and putting into service.", "article": "Art. 7(4)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726" }, { "id": "metrd-mfr-avoid-confusing-marks", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "text": "Never use marks or inscriptions liable to be confused with the EC signs or marks; in Denmark a breach of the marking and confusion rules is punishable by a fine.", "article": "Art. 12; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2003/1139 · § 11, § 18 and § 24", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726" }, { "id": "metrd-oth-make-application-pattern", "role": "other", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "text": "Make the application for EC pattern approval in the manufacturer's place only if you are established within the Community, in one Member State only, giving your name and address in the application.", "article": "Art. 2(4) and Annex I point 1.2(a)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726" }, { "id": "metrd-oth-send-copy-application", "role": "other", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "text": "Send a copy of the application simultaneously to all Member States and draw it up, with the correspondence and where required the annexed documents, in the official language of the Member State applied to.", "article": "Annex I point 1.1", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726" }, { "id": "metrd-oth-receive-pattern-approval", "role": "other", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "retired": "2026-09-24", "text": "Receive the EC pattern approval certificate as applicant and, where the approval is refused, not extended or withdrawn, or verification is refused, expect a reasoned decision with information on the national remedies and their time limits.", "article": "Art. 4 and Art. 18", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726" }, { "id": "metrd-oth-apply-sikkerhedsstyrelsen-f-typegodkendelse", "role": "other", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "text": "In Denmark, apply to Sikkerhedsstyrelsen for EØF-typegodkendelse with documentation that the instrument meets the legal requirements, and know that decisions may be brought before the agency and that giving incorrect or misleading information in connection with a decision is punishable by a fine.", "article": "§ 1, nr. 2; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2003/1139 · § 22 and § 24", "sourceUrl": "https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2010/349" }, { "id": "metrd-imp-place-market-instruments", "role": "importer", "kind": "verification", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "text": "Place on the market only instruments and products whose EC signs or marks were affixed in accordance with the directive and the separate directive concerned; a Member State may not restrict such products, but may act against instruments that do not conform to the approved pattern.", "article": "Art. 1(3) and Art. 7", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726" }, { "id": "metrd-imp-provide-market-surveillance", "role": "importer", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "authority-cooperation", "text": "On request, provide the market surveillance authority with documents, technical specifications, data or information on the compliance of the product and with information on the supply chain, the distribution network, the quantities on the market and other models with the same technical characteristics.", "article": "Art. 14(4), points (a) and (b), and Annex I point 28", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1020" }, { "id": "metrd-imp-take-corrective-action", "role": "importer", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "text": "Take the corrective action the authority requires within the period it sets where the product does not conform, which may include bringing it into compliance, preventing it from being made available, or withdrawing or recalling it.", "article": "Art. 16(1), (2) and (3)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1020" }, { "id": "metrd-imp-ensure-erhvervsdrivende-product", "role": "importer", "kind": "verification", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "text": "In Denmark, ensure as erhvervsdrivende that a product you place on the market meets the rules of the product act and the rules made under it, and expect orders to remedy, stop sales, withdraw, recall or destroy a non-compliant product, with fines for failing to give information or access or for disregarding a decision.", "article": "§ 4, nr. 1, § 5, stk. 1, § 14 and § 37", "sourceUrl": "https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2026/22" }, { "id": "metrd-dist-make-available-instruments", "role": "distributor", "kind": "verification", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "text": "Make available only instruments and products bearing EC signs or marks affixed in accordance with the directive and the separate directive concerned, and never affix or tolerate marks or inscriptions liable to be confused with them.", "article": "Art. 1(3) and Art. 12", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726" }, { "id": "metrd-dist-provide-market-surveillance", "role": "distributor", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "authority-cooperation", "text": "On request, provide the market surveillance authority with the documents and supply-chain information it needs and give it access for on-site inspections and physical checks.", "article": "Art. 14(4), points (a), (b), (d) and (e), and Annex I point 28", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1020" }, { "id": "metrd-dist-take-corrective-action", "role": "distributor", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "text": "Take the corrective action the authority requires within the period it sets, including stopping the making available or withdrawing or recalling the product.", "article": "Art. 16(2) and Art. 16(3)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1020" }, { "id": "metrd-dist-comply-orders-prohibitions", "role": "distributor", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "retired": "2026-09-24", "text": "In Denmark, comply with orders and prohibitions of the control authority under the product act, which may be addressed to anyone who has been a link in the sale of a product, and note that disregarding them is punishable by a fine.", "article": "§ 14, § 16 and § 37", "sourceUrl": "https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2026/22" }, { "id": "metrd-op-use-instrument-bearing", "role": "operator", "kind": "standing", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "retired": "2026-09-24", "text": "Use an instrument bearing EC signs or marks only within the in-service control requirements, in particular the maximum errors permitted in service, that the separate directive specifies; where none applies, the national rules for comparable instruments serve as the criteria.", "article": "Art. 15; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2003/1139 · § 19 and § 20", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726" }, { "id": "metrd-op-note-acceptance-duty", "role": "operator", "kind": "status", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "retired": "2026-09-24", "text": "Note that the acceptance duty for an instrument bearing the EC initial verification mark lasts until the end of the year following the year in which the mark was affixed unless a separate directive provides longer; after that, the national in-service rules govern.", "article": "Art. 8(4)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726" }, { "id": "metrd-op-instrumentejer-ensure-instrument", "role": "operator", "kind": "verification", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "retired": "2026-09-24", "text": "In Denmark, as instrumentejer ensure that an instrument used for a measurement on which a payment is based meets the product act and the rules made under it, even if you are not an erhvervsdrivende.", "article": "§ 4, nr. 2, and § 5, stk. 4", "sourceUrl": "https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2026/22" }, { "id": "metrd-op-expect-control-authority", "role": "operator", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "retired": "2026-09-24", "text": "Expect the control authority to order you to bring a non-compliant instrument used for payment-based measurement into conformity, or to forbid its use for such measurement, and comply with the order.", "article": "§ 16 a and § 37, stk. 1, nr. 6", "sourceUrl": "https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2026/22" } ], "requirementsHash": "db03d5e9dba68e45", "penalties": { "text": "The directive contains no penalty article. Its own toolkit is administrative: the Member State that granted an EC pattern approval may withdraw it where the instruments do not conform to the approved pattern or the separate directive, where the metrological requirements of the certificate are not met or where approval was granted improperly, must withdraw it where instruments of the pattern reveal a general defect in service, and may then forbid the placing on the market and putting into service of the instruments until further notice, informing the other Member States and the Commission; the same applies to instruments exempt from EC initial verification whose manufacturer, after due warning, does not bring them into conformity, and Member States must prevent the use of marks liable to be confused with the EC signs or marks. Every refusal, withdrawal or prohibition must state its reasons and be notified with the available remedies and time limits. Since 16 July 2021 the directive is point 28 of Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, whose market surveillance authorities can demand documents and supply-chain information, require corrective action within a set period, prevent a product from being made available, or have it withdrawn, recalled or destroyed; the directive is not listed in Annex II of that regulation, so the penalties come from national law. In Denmark, executive order 1139 of 15 December 2003 on EØF-typegodkendelse og -verifikation punishes with a fine the giving of incorrect or misleading information in connection with a decision and breaches of the marking, withdrawal and confusable-mark rules, with liability for companies, and since 1 July 2021 legal metrology falls under the product act (lov om produkter og markedsovervågning, lovbekendtgørelse 22 of 8 January 2026), which supplements Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, lists the directive in section 2, names Erhvervsstyrelsen as the control authority, lets it issue orders and prohibitions, including orders to the owner of an instrument used for payment-based measurement, and punishes with fines those who fail to give information or access or disregard its decisions, the fine rising to imprisonment of up to 2 years under aggravating circumstances because measuring instruments and methods of metrological control are a product area within section 2(1) no 15 (section 37(2)); since January 2026 Sikkerhedsstyrelsen is the department Markedsovervågning of Erhvervsstyrelsen.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 7, Art. 12 and Art. 18; https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1020 · Art. 14, Art. 16, Art. 41, Annex I point 28 and Annex II; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2003/1139 · § 14, § 18, § 21 and § 24; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2026/22 · § 1, § 2, stk. 1, nr. 15, § 9, § 14, § 16, § 16 a and § 37; https://erhvervsstyrelsen.dk/sikkerhedsstyrelsen-en-del-af-erhvervsstyrelsen" }, "checklist": [ "Identify which EU act governs your instrument: a MID category (Directive 2014/32/EU), a non-automatic weighing instrument (Directive 2014/31/EU), a measuring container bottle or prepackage (Directives 75/107/EEC and 76/211/EEC), or national metrological control only; EC pattern approval and EC initial verification under this directive apply only where a surviving separate directive refers to them (Article 1).", "For MID and NAWI instruments, follow the new-approach conformity assessment and CE marking instead; check that any certificate issued under Directive 2004/22/EC before 20 April 2016 is still valid and that no EC pattern approval sign or verification mark is used on them (Directive 2014/32/EU, Articles 7 and 50).", "For instruments formerly covered by a directive repealed by Directive 2011/17/EU, do not expect new EC pattern approvals; EC pattern approvals and certificates issued until 30 November 2015 under Directives 71/347/EEC, 75/33/EEC, 76/765/EEC and 86/217/EEC remain valid (Article 6(2)), weights conforming to Directives 71/317/EEC and 74/148/EEC could instead be subject to EC initial verification until 30 November 2025 (Article 6(3)), and Directive 76/766/EEC on alcohol tables has no transitional provision (Directive 2011/17/EU, Article 6).", "Where a separate directive requires EC pattern approval, apply in one Member State only, as manufacturer or through a representative established in the Community, with the Annex I point 1 file and copies to all other Member States (Article 2(4), Annex I point 1).", "Keep a register of your EC pattern approvals with their 10-year validity, extensions, additions for modifications and any limitations, and stop affixing a sign whose approval has lapsed except on instruments already in service (Articles 2(5) and 5).", "Affix the correct sign: the stylised epsilon approval sign, the letter P before it for a limited approval, the reversed epsilon where approval is not required and the sign in a hexagon where verification is not required — all of them at a visible point of each instrument, legible and indelible. The final EC initial verification mark, the small e with the hexagon year stamp, is not yours to affix: it goes on under the responsibility of the Member State when the instrument has been completely verified (Articles 4, 6, 10 and 11, Annex I points 3.1 to 3.5, Annex II point 3).", "Never use marks or inscriptions liable to be confused with the EC signs or marks, and check that the marks on measuring container bottles and prepackages follow the forms of Annex I point 3.3 and Annex II section 3 (Article 12; Directive 75/107/EEC Annex I point 5; Directive 76/211/EEC Annex I point 3.3).", "In Denmark, apply to Sikkerhedsstyrelsen (Erhvervsstyrelsen, Markedsovervågning) for EØF-typegodkendelse, use a laboratory it has authorised for EØF-førstegangsverifikation, and keep the in-service tolerances of the general Danish rules for instruments subject to control (executive order 1139 of 2003, §§ 2, 3, 15, 19 and 20).", "Be ready for market surveillance under Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and the Danish product act: documents, supply-chain information and corrective action on request, orders and prohibitions from the control authority, and fines for non-compliance (Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 Articles 14 and 16; lovbekendtgørelse 22 of 2026 §§ 14, 16, 16 a and 37)." ], "faq": [ { "q": "When did Directive 2009/34/EC start to apply and what did it replace?", "a": "Directive 2009/34/EC was adopted on 23 April 2009, published in OJ L 106 of 28 April 2009 and entered into force on the twentieth day after publication, 18 May 2009. It is a recast: it repealed Council Directive 71/316/EEC of 26 July 1971, as amended by the acts listed in Annex III Part A, without changing the substance, and references to the repealed directive are read as references to the recast according to the Annex IV correlation table. The transposition deadlines of the old directive and its amendments, from 30 January 1973 for Directive 71/316/EEC to 9 March 2008 for Directive 2007/13/EC, stay in force under Annex III Part B.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32009L0034 · Art. 20, Art. 21, Annex III and Annex IV; https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32009L0034 · document information, dates" }, { "q": "Does the directive still matter now that the MID and the NAWI Directive exist?", "a": "Only at the margins. The instrument directives adopted under the framework have all gone: Directive 2004/22/EC repealed eleven of them from 30 October 2006, when the Measuring Instruments Directive took over gas, liquid, water, electricity and heat meters, length measures, automatic weighing machines and taximeters, and Directive 2011/17/EU repealed the remaining eight, the last on 1 December 2015. Non-automatic weighing instruments follow Directive 2014/31/EU. What still refers to Directive 2009/34/EC is the reversed-epsilon sign on measuring container bottles under Directive 75/107/EEC, the small e and the confusable-marks and in-service control articles applied mutatis mutandis by the prepackage Directive 76/211/EEC, and the Article 16 delegated power under which the Commission amended the units of measurement Directive 80/181/EEC in 2019. The directive itself remains in force and is listed in Annex I of the market surveillance regulation.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02004L0022-20091201 · Art. 22; https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32011L0017 · Art. 1 to Art. 3; https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:31975L0107 · Annex I point 5; https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:01976L0211-20190726 · Annex I point 3.3; https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019L1258 · citations and recital 2" }, { "q": "What is EC pattern approval and how long is it valid?", "a": "EC pattern approval is the approval of an instrument type by a Member State under the directive and the relevant separate directive. It constitutes the instrument's admission to EC initial verification and, where verification is not required, the authorisation to place it on the market and put it into service. Only the manufacturer or his representative established in the Community may apply, in one Member State only, and the examination covers the documents and the measurement characteristics of the pattern under normal conditions of use. The approval is valid for 10 years, may be extended for successive periods of 10 years, allows an unlimited number of instruments, cannot be extended after a change of the Community provisions under which it could no longer be granted, and continues to apply to instruments already in service. Modifications that influence measurement results need an additional approval. A limited approval for a new technique not provided for in a separate directive may be granted after consulting the other Member States, for at most two years, extendable by up to three.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 2, Art. 5 and Annex I points 1 and 2" }, { "q": "What do the epsilon signs and the e mark on an instrument mean?", "a": "The EC approval sign of Article 4 is a stylised letter epsilon with the distinguishing letters of the Member State that granted the approval and the last two digits of the year in its upper part and an identification number in its lower part; a letter P of the same size before it marks a limited approval. The sign of Article 6 is the same epsilon reversed symmetrically about a vertical axis with no other indication, affixed by the manufacturer on his own responsibility where a category meeting a separate directive is exempt from EC pattern approval; it is the sign on measuring container bottles. The sign of Article 11 is the approval sign inside a hexagon, for categories exempt from EC initial verification. The final EC initial verification mark is two stamps: a lower-case e carrying the Member State letters and the number of the verifying office, and the last two digits of the year of verification in a hexagon; the partial verification mark is the lower-case e alone and also serves as a seal. None of them is the CE marking.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 4, Art. 6, Art. 10, Art. 11, Annex I points 3.1 to 3.4 and Annex II point 3.1" }, { "q": "How does EC initial verification work?", "a": "EC initial verification is the examination of a new or reconditioned instrument and the confirmation of its conformity to the approved pattern and to the requirements of the directive and the separate directives, certified by the EC initial verification mark. The metrological service first determines whether the instrument belongs to a category exempt from pattern approval and meets the technical requirements, or has an approval and conforms to the approved pattern, then examines the metrological characteristics, the maximum permissible errors, the construction and the presence of prescribed inscriptions and stamp plates. Verification is carried out in one stage for instruments that form a whole on leaving the factory and in two or more stages for instruments whose correct functioning depends on installation, with the last stage at the place of installation. A Member State's obligation to accept an instrument bearing the mark lasts until the end of the year following the year in which the mark was affixed unless a separate directive provides a longer period.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 8, Art. 9, Art. 10 and Annex II points 1 and 2" }, { "q": "Can a Member State refuse an instrument that bears EC signs or marks?", "a": "Not on the basis of the directive and the separate directives. No Member State may prevent, prohibit or restrict the placing on the market or entry into service of an instrument or product bearing EC marks or signs affixed under the conditions of the directive and the separate directive concerned, and Member States attach the same value to EC pattern approval and initial verification as to their national measures. Member States may, however, require the prescribed inscriptions in their official language, the separate directives fix the control requirements for instruments in service, and the Member State that granted an approval may withdraw it and forbid the instruments until further notice where they reveal a general defect in service, informing the other Member States and the Commission.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 1(3), Art. 1(4), Art. 7, Art. 14 and Art. 15" }, { "q": "Who handles EC pattern approval and verification in Denmark, and what are the penalties?", "a": "Executive order 1139 of 15 December 2003 on EØF-typegodkendelse og -verifikation implements the directive; since executive order 349 of 30 March 2010, EØF-typegodkendelse is applied for at and granted by Sikkerhedsstyrelsen, which also authorises the laboratories that carry out EØF-førstegangsverifikation, on the basis that they hold the necessary accreditation from DANAK or from an equivalent accreditation body that is a signatory to the EA multilateral agreement on mutual recognition. Approvals are valid for 10 years, in-service instruments with EC marks are checked under the general Danish rules for instruments subject to control, and giving incorrect information or breaching the marking, withdrawal and confusable-mark rules is punishable by a fine, with liability for companies. Since 1 July 2021 legal metrology falls under the product act, which lists the directive in section 2, names Erhvervsstyrelsen as the control authority and provides orders and prohibitions, including orders to the owner of an instrument used for payment-based measurement, and fines that can rise to imprisonment of up to 2 years under aggravating circumstances. Since January 2026 Sikkerhedsstyrelsen is the department Markedsovervågning of Erhvervsstyrelsen.", "source": "https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2003/1139 · § 2, § 3, § 7, § 12, § 15, § 19, § 20 and § 24; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2010/349 · § 1; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2026/22 · § 2, stk. 1, nr. 15, § 9, § 14, § 16 a and § 37; https://erhvervsstyrelsen.dk/sikkerhedsstyrelsen-en-del-af-erhvervsstyrelsen" }, { "q": "What did Regulation (EU) 2019/1243 change?", "a": "It aligned the directive with the Lisbon Treaty from 26 July 2019. Article 5(3), which let Member States that had granted limited EC pattern approvals ask for adaptation of the annexes, was deleted because such approvals no longer exist; Article 16 now empowers the Commission to adopt delegated acts amending Annexes I and II to adapt them to technical progress; the new Article 16a confers that power for five years from 26 July 2019, tacitly extended for identical periods unless the European Parliament or the Council objects, with consultation of Member States' experts and a three-month objection period; and Article 17 on the committee procedure was deleted. It is the only act that has amended the directive since 2009.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1243 · Annex, section VII (Internal market, industry, entrepreneurship and SMEs), point 5; https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 16 and Art. 16a and the list of amending acts" } ], "changelog": [ { "date": "2026-09-12", "kind": "guidance", "title": "Guide rewritten from the official text", "summary": "The body was rewritten from the consolidated text of Directive 2009/34/EC, Regulation (EU) 2019/1243, Directive 2011/17/EU, the MID and NAWI directives, Directives 75/107/EEC and 76/211/EEC, Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and the Danish executive order 1139 of 2003 and product act: the article structure now follows the act (22 articles and four annexes), the signs and marks are described from Annexes I and II, the repeal of every separate instrument directive is dated, and the earlier statements that the MID and the NAWI Directive are built on this directive and that authorised representatives and importers rely on its provisions to place instruments on the market were removed as unsupported by the text.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726 · Art. 1 to Art. 22 and Annex I to Annex IV" }, { "date": "2026-01-01", "kind": "guidance", "title": "Sikkerhedsstyrelsen becomes part of Erhvervsstyrelsen", "summary": "From January 2026 Sikkerhedsstyrelsen is a department of Erhvervsstyrelsen named Markedsovervågning and carries out the same tasks as before, including EØF-typegodkendelse and the authorisation of laboratories for EØF-førstegangsverifikation under executive order 1139 of 2003; the product act as consolidated on 8 January 2026 names Erhvervsstyrelsen as the control authority.", "source": "https://erhvervsstyrelsen.dk/sikkerhedsstyrelsen-en-del-af-erhvervsstyrelsen; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2026/22 · § 9" }, { "date": "2025-11-30", "kind": "applies", "title": "EC initial verification of weights under the repealed directives ends", "summary": "The last transitional measure of Directive 2011/17/EU expires: weights conforming to Directives 71/317/EEC and 74/148/EEC could be subject to EC initial verification under Articles 8, 9 and 10 of this directive until this date.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32011L0017 · Art. 6(3)" }, { "date": "2021-07-16", "kind": "applies", "title": "Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 applies to the directive", "summary": "The market surveillance regulation lists Directive 2009/34/EC as point 28 of its Annex I, so the national authorities hold its investigation and enforcement powers for the directive; the directive is not in Annex II, so the penalty duty of Article 41 attaches through national law. In Denmark legal metrology came under the product act on 1 July 2021.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1020 · Art. 14, Art. 41, Art. 44, Annex I point 28 and Annex II; https://sik.dk/erhverv/produkter/love-og-regler/vaegte-og-maalere/regler-og-vejledning-maaling-vaegt-og-e-maerkning" }, { "date": "2020-06-13", "kind": "applies", "title": "Commission Directive (EU) 2019/1258 applies under Article 16", "summary": "Adopted on the basis of Article 16 of this directive, the Commission directive aligned the definitions of the SI base units in the Annex to Directive 80/181/EEC with the 2018 decision of the General Conference on Weights and Measures; Member States had to transpose it by 13 May 2020 and apply it from 13 June 2020.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019L1258 · citations, recital 2, Art. 1 and Art. 2" }, { "date": "2019-07-26", "kind": "amendment", "title": "Regulation (EU) 2019/1243 in force: delegated acts replace the committee procedure", "summary": "The regulation of 20 June 2019, published in OJ L 198 of 25 July 2019, deleted Article 5(3) on limited approvals, replaced Article 16 by an empowerment to amend Annexes I and II by delegated act, inserted Article 16a conferring that power for five years from 26 July 2019 with tacit extension, and deleted Article 17 on the committee.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1243 · Annex, section VII (Internal market, industry, entrepreneurship and SMEs), point 5" }, { "date": "2016-04-20", "kind": "applies", "title": "MID 2014/32/EU and NAWI 2014/31/EU apply", "summary": "The recast Measuring Instruments Directive and Non-automatic Weighing Instruments Directive apply from this date with new-approach conformity assessment and CE marking; Directive 2004/22/EC is repealed with its certificates remaining valid, and Directive 2009/23/EC is repealed.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02014L0032-20150127 · Art. 50, Art. 51 and Art. 52; https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0031 · Art. 45 and Art. 46" }, { "date": "2015-12-01", "kind": "applies", "title": "Seven remaining instrument directives repealed by Directive 2011/17/EU", "summary": "Directives 71/317/EEC and 74/148/EEC on weights, 71/347/EEC on the standard mass of grain, 75/33/EEC on cold-water meters, 76/765/EEC on alcoholometers, 76/766/EEC on alcohol tables and 86/217/EEC on tyre pressure gauges cease to apply; EC pattern approvals and certificates issued until 30 November 2015 under Directives 71/347/EEC, 75/33/EEC, 76/765/EEC and 86/217/EEC remain valid (Article 6(2)); weights conforming to Directives 71/317/EEC and 74/148/EEC could instead be subject to EC initial verification until 30 November 2025 (Article 6(3)), and Directive 76/766/EEC on alcohol tables has no transitional provision.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32011L0017 · Art. 2, Art. 3, Art. 5(2) and Art. 6(2)" }, { "date": "2011-07-01", "kind": "applies", "title": "Directive 71/349/EEC on the calibration of the tanks of vessels repealed", "summary": "The first repeal under Directive 2011/17/EU, in force since 7 April 2011, takes effect; EC initial verifications and calibration certificates issued until 30 June 2011 remain valid.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32011L0017 · Art. 1, Art. 5(1), Art. 6(1) and Art. 7" }, { "date": "2010-04-01", "kind": "guidance", "title": "Danish executive order 349 of 2010: Sikkerhedsstyrelsen takes over EØF-typegodkendelse", "summary": "The amending order makes Sikkerhedsstyrelsen the authority that receives applications for and grants EØF-typegodkendelse and authorises the laboratories for EØF-førstegangsverifikation, replacing Den Danske Akkrediterings- og Metrologifond throughout executive order 1139 of 2003; executive order 161 of 5 March 2008 had earlier added the Member State letters of the 2004 and 2007 accessions to the signs.", "source": "https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2010/349 · § 1 and § 2; https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2008/161 · § 1 and § 2" }, { "date": "2009-05-18", "kind": "in-force", "title": "Directive 2009/34/EC in force; Directive 71/316/EEC repealed", "summary": "Adopted on 23 April 2009 and published in OJ L 106 on 28 April 2009, the recast entered into force on the twentieth day after publication, repealing Directive 71/316/EEC as amended by the acts listed in Annex III Part A and providing that references to it are read according to the Annex IV correlation table; no new transposition deadline applies.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32009L0034 · Art. 20, Art. 21 and Annex III; https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32009L0034 · document information, dates" }, { "date": "2006-10-30", "kind": "applies", "title": "Measuring Instruments Directive 2004/22/EC applies and repeals eleven instrument directives", "summary": "Directive 2004/22/EC repealed the old-approach directives on gas meters, meters for liquids other than water and their ancillary equipment, material measures of length, cold-water meters as regards MI-001, continuous totalising weighing machines, electrical energy meters, taximeters, measuring systems for liquids other than water, automatic checkweighing and weight-grading machines and hot-water meters, with a transition of up to ten years for instruments satisfying the previous rules.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02004L0022-20091201 · Art. 22, Art. 23 and Art. 24" } ], "sources": [ { "label": "Directive 2009/34/EC relating to common provisions for both measuring instruments and methods of metrological control, consolidated text of 26 July 2019 (EUR-Lex)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02009L0034-20190726" }, { "label": "Directive 2009/34/EC as published in OJ L 106, 28 April 2009 (EUR-Lex)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32009L0034" }, { "label": "Document information, dates and relationships for CELEX 32009L0034 (EUR-Lex)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32009L0034" }, { "label": "Regulation (EU) 2019/1243 adapting acts providing for the regulatory procedure with scrutiny to Articles 290 and 291 TFEU (EUR-Lex)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1243" }, { "label": "Directive 2011/17/EU repealing eight metrology directives adopted under Directive 71/316/EEC (EUR-Lex)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32011L0017" }, { "label": "Directive 2004/22/EC on measuring instruments, consolidated text of 1 December 2009 (EUR-Lex)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02004L0022-20091201" }, { "label": "Directive 2014/32/EU on measuring instruments, consolidated text of 27 January 2015 (EUR-Lex)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02014L0032-20150127" }, { "label": "Directive (EU) 2026/706 amending Directive 2014/32/EU as regards EV supply equipment, compressed gas dispensers and electricity, gas and thermal energy meters (EUR-Lex)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32026L0706" }, { "label": "Directive 2014/31/EU on non-automatic weighing instruments (EUR-Lex)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32014L0031" }, { "label": "Commission Directive (EU) 2019/1258 amending the Annex to Directive 80/181/EEC as regards the definitions of SI base units (EUR-Lex)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019L1258" }, { "label": "Council Directive 75/107/EEC on bottles used as measuring containers (EUR-Lex)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:31975L0107" }, { "label": "Council Directive 76/211/EEC on the making-up by weight or by volume of certain prepackaged products, consolidated text of 26 July 2019 (EUR-Lex)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:01976L0211-20190726" }, { "label": "Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 on market surveillance and compliance of products (EUR-Lex)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1020" }, { "label": "Legal metrology (European Commission, DG GROW)", "url": "https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/single-market/goods/building-blocks/legal-metrology_en" }, { "label": "Measuring and weighing instruments in the EU (European Commission, DG GROW)", "url": "https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/single-market/goods/building-blocks/legal-metrology/measuring-weighing-instruments-eu_en" }, { "label": "Bekendtgørelse nr. 1139 af 15. 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