What reason will there be for the US to amend the FPLA if the EU will accept dual labels from the US?
I don't agree with any directive that would prohibit a product from having an alternate unit of measure. I don't have a problem with metric only if that is the choice of the producer. I also don't agree with the requirement to require dual unit labels. I believe a producer should have the right to use one set of units. In order to have some harmony in the market I understand the need to declare a system of measure as standard and require it on all products. Thus I would have no problem with the EU banning a product that has no metric at all. But if a producer wants to include English (or Cinese, Japanese, Ancient Egyptian, etc.) units, then what is the harm? I would hope though that the EU does not amend their directive until the US amends theirs. Jerry ________________________________ From: David <totakeke...@yahoo.com> To: U.S. Metric Association <usma@colostate.edu> Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 11:10:55 AM Subject: [USMA:43883] RE: EU Metric Directive So what happens if the amendments to the directive don't finish their path before the 2010 date? And correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the USMA want the amendments to the EU metric directive to pass, hoping that it will encourage America to amend the FPLA? --- On Sun, 3/15/09, Martin Vlietstra <vliets...@btinternet.com> wrote: From: Martin Vlietstra <vliets...@btinternet.com> Subject: [USMA:43867] RE: EU Metric Directive To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu> Date: Sunday, March 15, 2009, 7:10 AM The amendments to the EU metric directive have not yet finished their path through the EU bureaucracy. Visit http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/prepack/unitmeas/uni_ms_en.htm to see the full details and http://ec.europa.eu/prelex/detail_dossier_real.cfm?CL=en&DosId=196132 to see the progress being made. >>From the EU Commission's point of view, this is a minor directive. The working papers were in English only, and as far as I could see, all the public responses were in English (including those from non-English countries). -----Original Message----- From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf Of mech...@illinois.edu Sent: 15 March 2009 02:34 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:43859] EU Metric Directive I just read the 2009 February update of a NIST summary of the EU Metric Directive. There is *no mention* of a delay of the requirement for metric-only labeling after 2010 Jan 1! Furthermore, I can find no evidence that any EU Member State has revised its laws requiring metric-only in response to any recommendation of the EU Parliament for indefinite delay. How soon will President Obama's attention be aroused when US exports are rejected by any one of the EU member states?
