Will they ever? They may decide to wait until the FPLA is amended first. Sort of like, "You do something for me and I will do something for you". At least if they don't, it sure would be an incentive for the FMI to reconsider their opposition to metric only labels or the Congress to pass the amendment without an FMI blessing.
Jerry ________________________________ From: Martin Vlietstra <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 3:10:41 AM Subject: [USMA:43867] RE: EU Metric Directive The amendments to the EU metric directive have not yet finished their path through the EU bureaucracy. Visit http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/prepack/unitmeas/uni_ms_en.htm to see the full details and http://ec.europa.eu/prelex/detail_dossier_real.cfm?CL=en&DosId=196132 to see the progress being made. >From the EU Commission's point of view, this is a minor directive. The working papers were in English only, and as far as I could see, all the public responses were in English (including those from non-English countries). -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 15 March 2009 02:34 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:43859] EU Metric Directive I just read the 2009 February update of a NIST summary of the EU Metric Directive. There is *no mention* of a delay of the requirement for metric-only labeling after 2010 Jan 1! Furthermore, I can find no evidence that any EU Member State has revised its laws requiring metric-only in response to any recommendation of the EU Parliament for indefinite delay. How soon will President Obama's attention be aroused when US exports are rejected by any one of the EU member states?
