News
December 2007
Imperial Weights and Measures to Remain Legal
British businesses are to be allowed to continue to sell goods in pounds and ounces. After years of wrangling between the UK and the European Commission (EC), it has been agreed that the UK does not have to abandon imperial measurements entirely and replace them with metric only measurements. Instead, the EC has agreed that the imperial and metric measurements can be used side by side. Businesses are not able to sell goods using imperial measurements only as the metric equivalents must also be displayed.
Britain was expected to have to complete full metrication by 2010. The rules, which would have meant that all road signs would have be expressed solely in kilometres and the banning of sales of pub measures in pints, has now been relaxed.
Internet links: BBC news article
