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• Determining mass in commercial transactions.
• Calculating tolls, tariffs, taxes, bonuses, penalties or similar payments.
• Applying legislation or regulations, or providing expert evidence in court proceedings.
• Weighing patients for medical monitoring, diagnosis or treatment.
• Preparing medicines on prescription in a pharmacy and determining mass in medical or pharmaceutical laboratory analyses.
• Determining a price by mass for direct sales to the public and making up prepackages.

Other uses fall under Article 1(2)(g) and have different requirements under this directive.

• Designing and manufacturing the instrument to meet the essential requirements.
• Preparing technical documentation and completing the relevant conformity assessment.
• Issuing the EU declaration of conformity and affixing CE and supplementary metrology markings after conformity is demonstrated.
• Keeping the technical documentation and declaration for ten years after placing the instrument on the market.
• Maintaining conformity in series production and reviewing relevant design or specification changes.
• Providing traceable identification, manufacturer contact details, instructions and information in the required language.

• Keeping the EU declaration of conformity and technical documentation available to national authorities for ten years after the instrument is placed on the market.
• Providing the information and documents needed to demonstrate conformity following a reasoned request from an authority.
• Cooperating with authorities on action to eliminate risks posed by instruments covered by the mandate.

• Use legally permitted mass units. These include kilogram, gram, milligram, microgram and tonne; troy ounces and metric carats are permitted for specified uses.
• Errors of indication must remain within the relevant limits for the accuracy class and load. Digital indications require the rounding error to be taken into account.

• Electronic instruments must either remain within the permitted error limits when exposed to disturbances or detect and indicate significant faults.
• Connected equipment must not adversely affect the instrument's metrological characteristics.
• The design must discourage fraudulent use and minimise the possibility of accidental misuse. Components requiring protection against adjustment must be secured.
• Printed results must be clear, correctly identified, unambiguous and durable.
• Where necessary, a levelling device and a sufficiently sensitive level indicator must enable correct installation.

• Retail and industrial scales.
• Weighing systems used at supermarket checkouts.
• Weighbridges.
• Laboratory and pharmaceutical balances.
• Kitchen and bathroom scales, usually intended for uses outside the six regulated categories.

• A general description and the intended use.
• Design and manufacturing drawings, component information and circuit diagrams.
• Explanations needed to understand the drawings and operation.
• The harmonised standards or other technical specifications used, including explanations of alternative solutions.
• Design calculations, examinations and assessment results.
• Test reports and other supporting evidence.

• The manufacturer's name and address and, where applicable, the authorised representative's details.
• Confirmation that the same application has not been lodged with another notified body.
• Relevant information about the instrument category and the quality-system documentation.
• The technical documentation for the approved type and its EU-type examination certificate, where applicable to the selected module.

• The supplementary metrology marking follows the CE marking. It consists of the letter M and the last two digits of the year of affixing, within a rectangle.
• The identification number or numbers of the notified bodies involved in the production-control phase follow the CE and metrology markings.
• Other markings may be added only if they do not impair the meaning, visibility or legibility of the required markings.

• The instrument model, type, batch or serial number and a traceable product description.
• The manufacturer's name and address and, where applicable, the authorised representative's details.
• A statement that the declaration is issued under the manufacturer's sole responsibility.
• The applicable EU legislation and the harmonised standards or other technical specifications used.
• Relevant notified-body and certificate details.
• The place and date of issue, the signatory's name and function, and the signature.

• Review changes to the instrument design, characteristics and referenced technical specifications.
• Maintain product identification and keep the required documentation available.
• Where appropriate to the risks, investigate complaints, sample instruments and record non-conformities or recalls.
• Take corrective action where an instrument does not comply and inform the relevant authorities where it presents a risk.

EU-type examination is not compulsory for instruments without electronic devices whose load-measuring device does not use a spring to balance the load. The corresponding D1 or F1 procedure may then apply. Instruments intended only for other uses are subject to different requirements under this directive.

• Technical documentation may include results from the manufacturer's laboratory or a laboratory working on its behalf.
• A notified body carries out, or arranges, the examinations and tests required by the selected module.
• The manufacturer and notified body agree the arrangements and location for the necessary tests.

This requirement must not be extended automatically to instruments intended only for other uses under Article 1(2)(g). Other applicable product legislation may have its own assessment requirements.