The once liquide has never been a legal unit in the EU, that is for sure. And it is not used as a secondary indicator, but as a primary one! It is used by EL and some other companies by referring to Canadian English/French language requirements they (deliberately?) choose to misunderstand.
Han Historian of Dutch Metrication, Nijmegen, The Netherlands ----- Original Message ----- From: "Louis JOURDAN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 7:33 AM Subject: [USMA:19896] Re: Elizabeth Taylor Perfume > At 20:09 -0400 02/05/3, kilopascal wrote: > >2002-05-03 > > > >Is the "once liquide" a legal unit anywhere in the EU that it can be used as a secondary indicator? Just because the EU 80/181 directive allows for secondary indicators up to 2010, does not imply that any old unit may be used. > > A quote from directive 80/181/EEC: > " For the purposes of this Directive "supplementary indication" means one or more indications of quantity expressed in units of measurement not contained in Chapter I of the Annex accompanying an indication of quantity expressed in a unit contained in that Chapter". > > Units of Chapter 1 are SI units. From that text derives that any unit not belonging to SI can be used as supplementary unit. Including the famous "once liquide". Also, one should also inquire if the directive EU 80/181 requires that products that are dual labelled, have the SI first and prominent and non-SI in the secondary and less prominent position. And if the law does require SI first, steps should be taken to insure that SI is primary. > Another quote from the directive: > " The indication expressed in a unit of measurement listed in Chapter I shall predominate. In particular, the indications expressed in units of measurement not listed in Chapter I shall be expressed in characters no larger than those of the corresponding indication in units listed in Chapter I." > > Nothing about the position, unless the word "accompanying" (see the first quote" implies "coming behind"? > > I doubt we can do something > > Louis
