Does anyone have the details of the impact of this Directive? How many of the following "packaging" type items are within its scope:
- product labels - boxes - owner's manuals - service manuals - brochures - advertising Also does anyone know if there is any middle ground? Perhaps the clutter of interspersing metric and imperial (for lack of a better term) units is the problem, in which case physical segregation would be a possible solution. Thanks for your help. Regards, Jim Eichner Statpower Technologies Corp. Burnaby, B.C., Canada [email protected] Any opinions expressed are those of my invisible friend, who really exists. Honest. -----Original Message----- From: sdouglas@anetMHS (DouglasScott){MHS:[email protected]} Sent: Monday, November 03, 1997 11:02 AM To: emc-pstc@anetMHS ("emc-pstc"){MHS:[email protected]}; ; mprg@anetMHS ("Jim McCracken"){MHS:[email protected]}; jeichner; bceresne Subject: Metrics #2 ---------------[ Content-type: text/plain; name=Message Body ]-------------- Hi to All, After reasding the various emails re: metrics, I phoned NIST and talked to the about this. I talked to Jim McCracken, Metric Coordinator of the Metric Progr m at NIST. First, the email from "Maureen Breitenburg, subject Business Alert - Received rom NIST Metric Program" was a repeat of a statement from the NIST Metric Prog am. The capital letters used in this email were added and were not from the Me ric Program statement. Second, the Metric Directive is, in fact, still in effect. 80/181/EEC was the riginal and had an effective date of 1/1/90 and required the use only of SI un ts after that date. Directive 89/617/EEC changed the effective date from 1/1/9 to 1/1/2000. These directives are in effect and there have been no legal chan es to the requirements or effective dates. Third, there was a draft document, 91C185, which was put out for voting but wa never voted on. That document was a proposal to consolidate the changes made y the 80 and 89 directives. I think that directive 85/1/EEC which added some S units to the list required by 80/181/EEC was included in the 91C185 document onsolidation proposal. The 'C' in the document number indicates commentary or proposal and is not def nitive (legal). The document 97C 2/02 is the withdrawal of the 1996 draft porp sal to make 91C185 a legal directive. So, as best I understand what Mr. McCracken said, the original and it's effect ve date modifying directive still stand and will require SI only units be used after 1/1/2000. Fourth, there is a problem in the US because some of our laws require BOTH met ic and non-metric measures on certain packaging. We will either have to have t o packages or change our laws. NIST is planning a forum in late spring or early summer 1998 to discuss the me ric issue and how we can successfully resolve American concerns. One way is to press for changes to our laws that permit metric only measure on packaging. It is my understanding that anyone who sends an email to Jim McCracken at metr [email protected] will be added to a list to receive an announcement of this foru
