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The software requirements for automatic and non-automatic weighing instruments are part of the essential requirements of the NAWI and the MI Directive. These are very generic in nature and further det...

To ensure customers in supermarkets can trust the scale they are using to weigh the vegetables they want to buy, those scales need to meet strict requirements before they are placed on the market. Tho...

Risk Assessments are an intrinsic part of the legislative framework that relates to weighing and measuring equipment. It is explicitly stated in both Directive 2014/31/EU and Directive 2014/32/EU that...

Where there is harmonised EU legislation for placing the products on the market, the market for private services in the weighing industry is characterised by a variety of weighing related national law...

Weighing-in-Motion (WIM) systems measure the weight of vehicles when those are driving over the measurement point. Up to now WIM systems are mainly used at lower speed in legal metrology applications....

New or repaired?Measuring instruments already in services are occasionally repaired or changed. If a measuring instrument which is already in service is changed in any way it has to be decided whether...

In principle, worldwide (OIML) and EU legislation sets essential requirements for weighing instruments that need to protect users, customers and ensure faire competition. All weighing instruments that...

Requirements to place non-automatic weighing instruments (NAWI) and automatic weighing instruments on the European market are harmonised at EU level. CECIP welcomes these harmonised product requiremen...

Together with 124 other European manufacturing associations CECIP signed the joint-position paper calling for an ambitious EU Industrial strategy. This position paper is a reaction on the much-welcome...