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Insights, trends and news on the main topics of interest for measuring instruments certification.
Legal metrology and AI Act 2024/1689
More than a year has passed since the Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (known as the AI Act) came into force, establishing harmonized European rules on artificial intelligence, and some of its provisions are already mandatory.For those involved in legal metrology, some...
The proposal for the amendment of the MID Directive
Following the publication of the proposed amendment of the MID Directive 2014/32/EU (the ‘MID’) on 29/11/2024 by the European Commission [1] more than twenty years after its first publication, it is useful to highlight the novelties that will involve all the players...
The importance of legal metrology to a nation
This article was first published on this site on 30/01/2023 (date of first publication) and was updated with more recent/complete content on 2/02/2024. Let us begin 2024 with a consideration that, while it might seem obvious at first reading, nevertheless is not,...
EV charging columns and legal metrology
This article was first published on this site on 21/09/2023 (date of first publication) and was updated with more recent/complete content on 22/10/2023. In the midst of the evolution of projects and products to implement the infrastructure of charging stations for...
Certification of hydrogen fiscal measuring instruments
This article was first published on this site on 21/07/2022 (date of first publication) and was updated with more recent/complete content on 13/06/2023. Hydrogen is currently the focus of many initiatives, seminars, national and international working groups, as it is...
The digital inscriptions in non-automatic weighing instruments (NAWI)
Is it acceptable that in non-automatic weighing instruments (NAWI) the inscriptions of maximum capacity (Max), minimum capacity (Min) and verification scale division (e) are only visible in the display, thus only when the instrument is in operation?How can this...