90/384/EEC(NAWI certification)

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1. A weighing instrument is defined as a measuring instrument serving to determine the mass of a body by using the action of gravity on that body. A weighing instrument may also serve to determine other mass-related magnitudes, quantities, parameters or characteristics. A non-automatic weighing instrument is defined as a weighing instrument requiring the intervention of an operator during weighing. This Directive applies to all non-automatic weighing instruments, hereinafter referred to as &#**9;instruments&#**9;. 2. A distinction is made in this Directive between two categories of instrument use: (a) 1. determination of mass for commercial transactions; 2. determination of mass for the calculation of a toll, tariff, tax, bonus, penalty, remuneration, indemnity or similar type of payment; 3. determination of mass for the application of laws or regulations; expert opinion given in court proceedings; 4. determination of mass in the practice of medicine for weighing patients for the purposes of monitoring, diagnosis and medical treatment; 5. 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; 6. determination of price on the basis of mass for the purposes of direct sales to the public and the making-up of prepackages; (b) all applications other than those listed in point 2 (a) of this Article.