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Definitions of Trade Sector Review for The Registration Program

Downstream petroleum sector: means trade measurement and trade transactions from petroleum refineries and gas processing facilities to retailers and commercial customers. It includes all meters and measurement systems such as: truck and railway scales, platform scales for lube oils etc., pipeline meters, terminal loading rack meters, meters for aviation fuel, marine and rail transport metering systems, and vehicles mounted metering systems used for commercial applications. The variety of products measured in this sector is numerous and diverse and would typically include all of the petroleum-based products derived from the refining or gas processing plants such as gasolines, diesels, home heating fuels, propane, lube oils, aviation fuels, greases, waxes, bunker, asphalt, butane, ethane, and pentane to name but a few.

Does not include sulphur, crude oil, natural gas, and a mixture of natural gas liquids. Also, it does not include any trade transaction or devices that are of a retail nature. Metering devices and systems such as retail gasoline, diesel or propane fuel dispensers, small aviation and marinas dispensers, retail lube oil meters for filling engine crankcases, and vehicle mounted meter systems for home heating oil and propane for residential consumers. What is not included will be addressed as part of other trade sector reviews.

• fuel dispensers which deliver one to three products from each pump and have a flow rate up to 90 litres per minute.
• card lock dispensers installed at truck stops or bulk fuel distribution centres. These are used to deliver gasoline and diesel fuel to commercial vehicles such as cars, truck, semi tractors and heavy equipment. These dispensers have a flow rate up to 225 litres per minute.
• truck mounted meters used exclusively for home heating fuel delivery.
• platform scales used for propane bottle filling.

The dairy sector does not include (for the purpose of the registration program) dairy farm tanks, scales used to determine butterfat content etc. of the milk , dairy products sold at the retail level nor scales or meters used to package products for retail sale. Products sold at the retail level or packaged for sale at the retail level are covered by the retail food sector.

• point of sale systems which may be stand alone, connected to a LAN or a WAN and consist of a scale (or scanner/scale) interfaced to ancillary equipment such as a cash register, scanner, etc.;
• counter/computing scale;
• prepack scales which are often incorporated into large sophisticated packaging machines. Often found in the meat departments of larger grocery stores. The scale forms an integral portion of a larger system which is designed to run unattended (or partially attended) and wraps, weighs and labels packages destined for display on the store counter;
• large platform scales used for shipping & receiving, rail or beam scales used to weigh sides of meat etc.;
• hanging dial scales in the produce sections designed to allow the consumer to estimate quantities prior to proceeding to the checkout.