Gene I can only speak for UK practice in this matter. In the UK, the Weights and Measures Act is enforced by the local Weights & Measures Authority (usually the local county council). It is not enforced by EU officials or by Customs. This is set out in section 69 of the Weights & Measures Act 1985. The council emply Weights & Measures Inspectors (qualified under section 73) to carry out their statutory duties under the Act. If a Local Weights & Measures Authority fails to carry out its statutory duties, the Secretary of State may appoint sufficient inspectors and recharge the authority for this cost. In practice, however, this doesn't happen.. The authorities know that it will be more expensive than providing the service themselves
--- On Mon, 16/3/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:43961] RE: EU Metric Directive To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, 16 March, 2009, 3:52 AM Ken Cooper wrote: "The EU Directive can be considered to be an instruction to the member states to implement the directive into their own national legislation, It's up to the member states how they do this." Is there any enforcement of measurement standards at the EU level, or are all customs inspectors employees of one or another EU Member State? In the US there are inspectors at all levels; Federal, State, and Local, with overlapping jurisdictions in some cases. Gene.
