Responsibilities of the packer?

The packer or the person ordering the packing is obliged to:

- notification to the director of the regional office of measures of the fact of packing within 7 days of its commencement,

- proper labeling of the product (name, nominal quantity, company),

- organize an internal check to ensure that the actual quantity of the goods corresponds to the nominal quantity.

Whether the actual quantity corresponds to the nominal quantity is finally determined by an external (official) control carried out using a reference method or another equally effective method. The reference method is a statistical method, described in detail in Annex 2 of the Act.

Therefore, the packer can use any method of measuring the net weight of his goods, but it must be a method that is so reliable that the reference method test will confirm a positive result.