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Identification
Reference COD/2000/0233  
Title Measuring instruments: trading transactions and use of legally controlled instruments
Legal Basis EC 095  
Dossier of the committee ITRE/5/14938
Subject(s) 2.10.03 standardisation, EC standards and trade-mark, certification, compliance
3.40.11 precision engineering, optics, photography, medical
4.60.06 consumers' economic and legal interests
Stage reached Procedure ended
Stages
Stages Documents: references Dates
Source reference Equivalent references Votes and amendments Joint resolution of document of publication in Official Journal
Commission/Council: initial legislative document Summaries EC COM(2000)0566 C5-0478/2000         15/09/2000 C 062 27.02.2001, p. 0001 E
Economic and Social Committee: opinion, report   ESC CES0226/2001           28/02/2001 C 139 11.05.2001, p. 0004
EP: draft report by the committee responsible   EP PE297.144           02/03/2001  
EP: decision of the committee responsible, 1st reading/single reading Summaries               20/06/2001  
EP: tabled legislative report, 1st reading or single reading   EP A5-0221/2001           20/06/2001  
EP: position, 1st reading or single reading Summaries EP T5-0367/2001           03/07/2001 C 065 14.03.2002, p. 0022-0034 E
Commission: modified legislative proposal Summaries EC COM(2002)0037 C5-0056/2002         06/02/2002 C 126 28.05.2002, p. 0368 E
Council: statement on common position   CSL 11172/2003           07/07/2003  
Council: common position Summaries CSL 09681/4/2003 C5-0417/2003         22/07/2003 C 252 21.10.2003, p. 0001-0088 E
Commission: communication on the common position Summaries EC SEC(2003)0939           29/08/2003  
EP: draft report by the committee responsible   EP PE316.245           27/10/2003  
EP: tabled legislative report, 2nd reading   EP A5-0458/2003           02/12/2003  
EP: position, 2nd reading Summaries EP T5-0580/2003           17/12/2003 C 091 15.04.2004, p. 0134-0384 E
Commission: opinion on the EP position at second reading Summaries EC COM(2004)0040 C5-0046/2004         26/01/2004  
Final legislative act Summaries EU 32004L0022           31/03/2004 L 135 30.04.2004, p. 0001-0080
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European Parliament
Committee
Rapporteur / Co-rapporteurs   Previous
Political group Appointed
Industry, External Trade, Research, Energy (responsible)
Chichester Giles
PPE-DE
27/03/2002
European Commission and Council of the Union
European Commission DG Enterprise and Industry Transmission date: 15/09/2000
Council of the Union
  Previous Councils
  Education, Youth and Culture meeting: 2565 of: 26/02/2004
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31/03/2004 - Final legislative act
PURPOSE : to create an Internal Market for measuring instruments. LEGISLATIVE ACT : Directive 2004/22/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on measuring instruments.
CONTENT : a number of measuring instruments have been harmonised in the seventies under optional harmonisation. Member States were allowed to maintain national regulation alongside the harmonised Community regulation based on Old Approach Directives. These directives have not been updated for technological progress.
Meanwhile Member States have to different degrees expanded national technical regulations, often based, wholly or in part, on international recommendations. Such national rules fragment the Internal Market.
In order to achieve full harmonisation, expand the scope of Community harmonisation and modernise conformity assessment procedures, it is therefore necessary to update Community regulation to include the application, by the manufacturer, of an approved and supervised Quality System as an alternative to third party verification of products.
This Directive applies to the devices and systems with a measuring function defined in the instrument-specific annexes concerning water meters (MI-001), gas meters and volume conversion devices (MI-002), active electrical energy meters (MI-003), heat meters (MI-004), measuring systems for continuous and dynamic measurement of quantities of liquids other then water (MI-005), automatic weighing instruments (MI-006), taximeters (MI-007), material measures (MI-008), dimensional measuring instruments (MI-009) and exhaust gas analysers (MI-010).
Member States may prescribe the use of measuring instruments for measuring tasks for reasons of public interest, public health, public safety, public order, protection of the environment, protection of consumers, levying of taxes and duties and fair trading, where they consider it justified.
In line with the principle of subsidiarity, the proposal does not harmonise national law that imposes legal measurement. This remains the competence of the Member State and hence may differ from one to another. However, when measurement is imposed, it can only be carried out by means of an instrument conforming to the proposal.
The European Parliament and the Council invite the Commission :
- to report, before 30 April 2011, on the implementation of this Directive, inter alia, on the basis of reports provided by the Member States, and, where appropriate, to submit a proposal for amendments;
- to evaluate whether conformity assessment procedures for industrial products are properly applied and, where appropriate, to propose amendments in order to ensure consistent certification.
ENTRY INTO FORCE : 30/04/2004.
TRANSPOSITION : 30/04/2006. The Directive shall apply from 30/10/2006.
 
List of summaries
Summaries 31/03/2004 Final legislative act
Summaries 26/01/2004 Commission: opinion on the EP position at second reading
Summaries 17/12/2003 EP: position, 2nd reading
Summaries 29/08/2003 Commission: communication on the common position
Summaries 22/07/2003 Council: common position
Summaries 26/11/2002 Council's activities
Summaries 06/02/2002 Commission: modified legislative proposal
Summaries 03/07/2001 EP: position, 1st reading or single reading
Summaries 20/06/2001 EP: decision of the committee responsible, 1st reading/single reading
Summaries 15/09/2000 Commission/Council: initial legislative document
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