CELEX: 51987PC0160(02)
Language: en
Date: 1987-04-15
Title: AMENDED PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION IN RESPECT OF THE INDICATION OF PRICES FOR NON-FOOD PRODUCTS

7.5.87                                Official Journal of the European Communities                        No C 121/9
       Amended proposal for a Council Directive on consumer protection in respect of the indication
                                            of prices for non-food products (')
                                                    COM(87) 160 final
       (Submitted by the Commission to the Council pursuant to Article 149 (a) of the EEC Treaty on 23
                                                         April 1987)
                                                       (87/C 121/10)
       Articles 8, 9, 9a and 10 are replaced by the following:
             Article 8
            1.     The products prepackaged in pre-established quantities listed in points 5, 8 (8.2 to
            8.6), 9 and 10 of Annex I to Directive 80/232/EEC where they are sold in the ranges of
            nominal quantities of contents given in the said Annex, shall be exempted from the
            obligation to indicate the unit price.
            2.     Member States may exempt from the obligation to indicate the unit price:
            — the products prepackaged in pre-established quantities listed in points 4, 6, 7, 8 (1.1) of
                 Annex I to Directive 80/232/EEC where they are sold in the ranges of nominal
                 quantities of contents given in the said Annex,
            — the products prepackaged in pre-established quantities referred to in point 3 of Annex
                 II and points 1 and 2 of Annex III to Directive 80/232/EEC, where they are sold in
                 rigid containers in capacity ranges given in the said Annexes and are not listed in
                 Annex I to Directive 80/232/EEC.
            3.     The prepackaged products referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 may be exempted from
            the obligation to indicate the unit price by the Member States where they are sold in
            smaller or greater quantities than those set out in the Community ranges.
            Article 9
            Where Community measures are adopted concerning the standardization of ranges of
            quantities of contents relating to non-food products prepackaged in pre-established
            quantities or the revision of previously adopted quantity ranges, the Council shall amend
            Article 8.
            Article 10
            During a five-year period to run from the adoption of this Directive, the Member States
            may as a temporary measure, maintain in force any national measures concerning the
            prepackaged products in pre-established quantities referred to in Annex I to the Directive.'
       (') O J N 0 C 8 , 13. 1. 1984, p. 2.