Gene
I think that you may have misinterpreted the directive and the national
legislation of the EU members.
Metric is already the primary system used for trade measurement throughout the
EU (apart from the pint for draught beer & doorstep milk in a few places)
In the EU, packages are required to comply with the requirements relating to
their metric marking. A package marked "454 g 1 lb" would be tested to 454 g. A
package marked "453 g 1 lb" would be tested to 453 g (ie the metric is always
primary)
As far as I am aware, US packages marked with the same indications would be
tested to 454 g & to 1 lb respectively (ie to the larger of the 2 contents
declarations)
--- On Mon, 27/4/09, mech...@illinois.edu <mech...@illinois.edu> wrote:
From: mech...@illinois.edu <mech...@illinois.edu>
Subject: [USMA:44885] FPLA 2010
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu>
Date: Monday, 27 April, 2009, 5:06 PM
Mike,
The date the European Union *requires* metric units as primary indications of
amount of contents in packages and on labels and in documentation of packages
is 2010 January 1.
However, Member States of the EU are anticipated to *permit* but not require
non-metric units as "supplementary indications" beyond January 1, as does the
UK now.
Since "2010 January 1" is a "transition" date it seems appropriate as the
target date for a new FPLA; "FPLA 2010" with time for new legislation in the
United States.
The present FPLA *requires both* metric and inch-pound units.
This requirement for duality *does not* conform with the EU Metric Directive
which requires metric units and merely permits non-metric units, even beyond
January 1
---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:18:24 +0000
>From: mholm...@bellsouth.net
>Subject: Re: [USMA:44855] FPLA 2010 as FPLA-4-24.pdf
>To: mech...@illinois.edu, "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu>
>Cc: <mech...@illinois.edu>
>
> Why 2010? It should be 2009!
>
> Mike Holmes
>
> -------------- Original message from
> <mech...@illinois.edu>: --------------
>
> > Public Law 100-418 designates the metric system
> of measurements as preferred for
> > United States trade and commerce... It is not
> 481.
> >
> > Attached is Draft FPLA-4-24.pdf which makes that
> correction.
> >
