Ah yes - I see that Martin's 1st link refers to the public consultation. I also see that a few contributors to this site responded. Here's the response made by a well known UK anti-metrication activist. It speaks for itself. http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/prepack/unitmeas/depot_anwers/a-priv-person/R67.pdf Subject : Metric directive I have been directed towards a link and this email regarding the subject matter above. "The people" are often ignored regarding matters like this. In the UK we prefer to use and see imperial measures but by and large believe in using the metric system for intra/international trade etc. Trying to ban imperial indications on a domestic market, where free trade is not affected, causes the people in that domestic market to (sometimes wrongly) blame the EU for "forcing unwanted laws" etc. My view is that a healthy Europe is a diverse one - and imperial measures marks us, in the UK, has having one such diversity. May I draw your attention to the fact that popularity of the EU and the metric system has declined since the early 70's in the UK. I believe that forcing the two issues together has harmed both subjects matters, regardless if the observer is pro or anti EU, or pro or anti metric. I believe that the perception that the EU "allows us to use some imperial" would be a lot less harmful to the EU as an institution than the perception that the EU wants to abolish something that many people here see as uniquely British. Kind Regards Steve Humphreys UK
--- On Sun, 15/3/09, Martin Vlietstra <[email protected]> wrote: From: Martin Vlietstra <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:43867] RE: EU Metric Directive To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, 15 March, 2009, 7:10 AM 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?
