1. This Directive shall apply to all non-automatic weighing instruments.
2. For the purposes of this Directive, the following categories of use of non-automatic weighing
instruments shall be distinguished:
(a) determination of mass for commercial transactions;
(b) determination of mass for the calculation of a toll, tariff, tax, bonus, penalty, remuneration,
indemnity or similar type of payment;
(c) determination of mass for the application of laws or regulations or for an expert opinion given in
court proceedings;
(d) determination of mass in the practice of medicine for weighing patients for the purposes of
monitoring, diagnosis and medical treatment;
(e) determination of mass for making up medicines on prescription in a pharmacy and determination of
mass in analyses carried out in medical and pharmaceutical laboratories;
(f) determination of price on the basis of mass for the purposes of direct sales to the public and the
making-up of prepackages;
(g) all applications other than those listed in points (a) to (f).
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