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Pounds 2,000 fines if shopkeepers use imperial weights alongside metric
From:
Daily Mail
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April 22, 2006| Author:
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SHOPKEEPERS could be fined Pounds 2,000 or jailed if they display
imperial measures from 2010.
The EU says that traders will not be allowed to mark goods in
pounds and ounces, alongside kilos and grams, after December 31,
2009.
But a group that campaigns to protect imperial measures yesterday
branded the Brussels directive a 'malicious attack on our democracy'.
Although shops must sell goods in grams and kilograms, they can
still use imperial measures in parallel by displaying ' supplementary
indications' on labels.
But this is to be swept away after ministers decided not to seek a
new ...
