Certainly, Gene. But I'm wondering what the EU member states actually did in response to Directive 80/181 back in 2000. If most (maybe all) member states did nothing at the time (which wouldn't surprise me), then there wouldn't have been any changes to laws, etc. that had to be made to comply with this indefinite extension that permits supplementary indications.
In other words, the member states may have just stuck with the status quo ante as far as their laws are concerned. Consequently, this whole thing may have been nothing more than a giant "no op" for all the member states. I'm just speculating as to why the new (changed) laws may not be findable is all that I'm saying. -- Ezra ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 7, 2010 8:28:54 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [USMA:46586] Re: Labeling Laws of EU Member States Ezra, The Directive 80/181 *excluded* "supplementary indications" (i.e. inch-pound units) after 2010 Jan 1. The Directive of 2009 made inch-pound units acceptable beyond 2010 Jan 1. That required a *significant* change in the laws of the EU Member States called for not later than 2009 Dec 31. It is these *new laws* that I'm looking for. Gene. ---- Original message ---- >Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:34:47 +0000 (UTC) >From: [email protected] >Subject: [USMA:46583] Re: Labeling Laws of EU Member States >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > > Of course, if the member states already had laws, > regulations, and administrative provisions in place > from the last time this issue of supplementary > indications came up (back in 2000, if I recall > correctly), then I guess none of them needed to do > anything except send the Commission the text of the > existing measures, which would be trivial to > accomplish. Since the new directive didn't really > change anything, I can easily imagine the above > being the case. > > -- Ezra > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: [email protected] > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, February 7, 2010 4:21:34 PM GMT -08:00 > US/Canada Pacific > Subject: [USMA:46582] Re: Labeling Laws of EU Member > States > > The new laws were due no later than 31 December > 2009. >...
