Regulations on articles of precious metals, etc.


Date FOR-2011-01-10-12


Ministry of Industry and Ministry of Fisheries


Published in 2011 Booklet 1


Commencement 10/01/2011

Edited


Changes


For
Norway

Legal

LOV-2010-09-03-52-§3, LOV-2010-09-03-52-§4, LOV-2010-09-03-52-§5, LAW-2010-09-03- 52 § 6, LOV-2010-09-03-52-§9, LOV-2010-09-03-52-§10, LOV-2010-09-03-52-§11

Promulgated
11.01.2011 kl. 14.30

Short Title
Regulations on articles of precious metals, etc.

Adopted by Ministry of Trade and 10 January 2011, pursuant to the Act on 3 September 2010 No.. 52 on articles of precious metals, etc. § 3, § 4, § 5, § 6, § 9, § 10 and § 11

§ 1. Definitions In these regulations:

A)

Article of precious metal: a necklace or another object consisting wholly or partly of precious metal

B)

Precious metal: gold, silver and platinum

C)

Fineness: content of the precious metal per thousand by weight of alloy.

§ 2. fineness fineness allowed inflicted articles of precious metal, is

A)
for gold: 999, 916, 750, 585 and 375

B)
for silver: 999, 925, 830 and 800

C)
for platinum: 999, 950, 900 and 850.

Fineness for an article of precious metal with a fineness between two defined standards for the metal, shall be deemed to be the closest lower defined standard.
Only items in the allowable standards that can be described as gold, silver or platinum. Platinum is the most noble of the metals, followed by gold and then silver.

§ 3. Fineness mark and responsibility mark A fineness should show works fineness in parts per thousand in Arabic numerals. Fineness for articles of silver may contain the letter S after the number indicating fineness. Fineness for articles of platinum shall contain the letters Pt after the number indicating fineness.
Responsibility mark shall consist of preparing's name, an abbreviation, or a symbol. Registration Hallmarks undertaken by the Patent Office, ref. Regulation of 20 December 2010 No.. 1812 for registration of responsibility marks.
Whenever possible, all marks shall be placed in close proximity. The registered responsibility mark and fineness can be stamped, engraved or cast on the article.
If an article consists of one or more parts that are hinged, or readily removed from the item's body, above marks shall mark applied body.

§ 4. Fineness mark and responsibility mark on articles consisting of multiple precious metal alloys If an article consists of different precious metal alloys and if the color and extent of each alloy are clearly distinguishable from one another, the hallmark applied at least one of the parts. Fineness should be applied on all parts.
If an article consists of different precious metal alloys and if the color and extent of each alloy is not clearly distinguishable from each other, the fineness mark and responsibility mark applied on the least precious metal. Fineness of the nobler alloys should not be applied.
If an article consists of different alloys of the same precious metal, the fineness mark for the lowest fineness applied item.

§ 5. Use of solder for articles of precious metal to be marked with the fineness of goods of precious metals with fineness marking, the solder used only for joining. The solder must be of at least the same fineness of the article, with the following exceptions:

A)
Goods of gold articles of 916 shall have solder least 750 thousand of gold.

Filigree filingree and watch cases fineness 750 shall have solder least 740 per thousand of gold. Goods of white gold with fineness 750 shall have solder least 585,000 parts gold.

B)
Goods of silver with fineness 925 shall have solder least 650 thousand of silver. Articles of silver with fineness 800 and 830 should have solder least 550 thousand of silver.

C)
Goods of platinum should have solder least 800 thousand of gold, silver, platinum or palladium.

D)
Goods with parts of different precious metal alloys may have solder allowed for the least precious metal.

E)
Goods with parts of precious metal alloys and parts of base metal may have solder any metals.

Other methods of joining are allowed.

§ 6. Coatings on articles of precious metal with fineness marking Precious metal coating on articles of precious metal to be marked with the fineness, at least the same fineness as the article or of a more precious metal.


§ 7. Base metal parts in precious metal with fineness marking base components that do not meet the requirement of the law of 3 September 2010 No.. 52 on articles of precious metals, etc. § 4, second paragraph, that they should not have an appearance that may cause confusion with precious metal, may still be used in articles of precious metal to be marked with the fineness, if precious metals for technical reasons is unsuitable.
Base components with a look that may cause confusion with precious metal shall be stamped or engraved "METAL" or with a specific designation of the metal. The requirement does not apply to moving parts in clocks or watches.
Base components should not be used for strengthening, weighting or filling, except in cases where obvious reasons must be considered necessary.

§ 8. CCM marking Articles of precious metal may be submitted metrology marking with the Common Control Mark (CCM).
Goods that meets the requirements of the Vienna Convention on 15 November 1972. 1 on the control and marking of articles of precious metals, can be marked with Metrology mark and the Common Control Mark in accordance with the Vienna Convention.

§ 9. Other markings are not allowed unauthorized or improper use of brands under § 3 and § 8
Other marks which they can not be confused with them.

§ 10. Designation of goods imposed precious metal An article can be described as gilded, silvered or platinum if your item by electrochemical method is applied a coat of respectively gold, silver or platinum.
An article can be described as filled gold if the article is coated with a layer of gold having a thickness of at least 10 micrometers. Watch cases may be referred to as filled if there is applied a layer of gold having a thickness of at least 5 micrometers.
An article can be described as plate, if the article is covered with a 40 grams silver plating. Tableware Goods must bear at least 1.67 grams of silver per square decimeter equivalent to a thickness of 15.9 micrometers, and corpus goods shall be applied at least 1.07 grams of silver per square decimeter equivalent to a thickness of 10.2 micrometers.

§ 11. Metrology control of content of precious metal For controlling the content of precious metal may Justervesenet random checks of importers, wholesalers, retailers and manufacturers. It may be required metrology receipt for the sample of goods. After control of the content of precious metal is completed, Metrology return merchandise metal residues from control except for the parts that have been lost by the analysis. It is the analyze, can not claim to cover losses or expenses incurred while carrying out control of the content of precious metal.

§ 12. Mutual recognition Articles of precious metal lawfully marketed in another Member State, accepted sold in Norway if the information supplied by the labels on the goods, is equivalent to that required by the regulations, and the information is understandable for consumers .

§ 13. Fine Violation of § 2 to § 7 and § 9 to § 10 of the regulations may result in imposition of fines.

§ 14. Fees Anyone producing or selling precious metal or precious metal articles shall pay annual fees of $ 1,000 to metrology. Companies which have more than one outlet, should pay one annual fee per outlet.
Metrology may apply waive the annual fee entirely or partially if an entity's turnover of goods of precious metal is extremely small.
Reminders as a result of late payment, late charges by law 13 May 1988 no. 26 on debt collection and other collections of overdue claims § 19 and Regulation on 14 July 1989 no. 562 to the Debt Collection Act § 1-2. Upon payment by the due date calculated penalty interest in accordance with the Act of 17 December 1976 no. 100 relating to interest on overdue payments

§ 15. The enforcement of a penalty Metrology can impose administrative fine of 10 times the annual fee in § 14 to infringements of

A)
§ 2 to § 7 and § 9 to § 10

B)
law of 3 September 2010 No.. 52 on articles of precious metals, etc. § 3 subsection, § 4 subsections and § 5 subsections

C)
individual decision issued pursuant to the Act on 3 September 2010 No.. 52 on articles of precious metals, etc. § 7, and § 8

The deadline to pay violation fines is four weeks from the order unless otherwise specified in the order. If violation fine is not paid when due, interest on arrears in accordance with the Act of 17 December 1976 no. 100 relating to interest on overdue payments.

§ 16. The enforcement of fines If the time limit for rectification and withdrawal by law On 3 September 2010 No.. 52 on articles of precious metals, etc. § 8, Justervesenet impose fines of up to 1 times the annual fee in § 13 day time limit.

If the time limit to comply with an order under the Act of 3 September 2010 No.. 52 on articles of precious metals, etc. § 7, Justervesenet impose, at 0.3 times the annual fee in § 13 day time limit.
Metrology can stop the consecutive fine without fulfillment happened if special reasons for doing so.
The deadline to pay fines is four weeks from the order unless otherwise specified in the order. If coercive fine is not paid when due, interest on arrears in accordance with the Act of 17 December 1976 no. 100 relating to interest on overdue payments.

§ 17. Entry into force and repeal of other regulations Regulations come into force on 10 January 2011.