Bottles used as measuring containers (measuring container bottles)

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The market surveillance of these products is the responsibility of the authority from 16 July 2021.

Short description of speciality

These products are determined by the ministerial decree 8/1997. (III. 21.) IKIM rendelet (hereafter: IKIM decree). Directive 75/107/EEC is transposed to Hungarian law by IKIM decree.

The products of speciality are glass bottles – or bottles made of any other substance having such rigidity and stability that it offers the same metrological guarantees as glass –, which of   nominal capacity of between 0.05 and 5 litres. The nominal capacity of bottles is determined by filling up to a specified level or to a specified percentage of their brim capacity. Their name is: measuring container bottles. Measuring container bottles are e.g. glass bottles for spirits.

The conformity marking can be seen on measuring container bottles is the reversed epsilon (stylised letter ε is reversed symmetrically about a vertical axis):

Connecting legislation:

Connects to IKIM decree:

• 13/2008. (VIII. 8.) NFGM-FVM együttes rendelet on laying down rules on nominal quantities for prepackaged products and methods of inspecting of them, which transposes into Hungarian law Council Directive 76/211/EEC and Directive 2007/45/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council;

• 6/2001. (III. 19.) GM rendelet on measuring instruments and methods of metrological control of them, which transposes into Hungarian law Directive 2009/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council.