Guidance

Standard temperature accounting: weights and measures

Guidance for organisations working with fuel dispensers and road tanker fuel deliveries fitted with standard temperature accounting displays.

• From: Office for Product Safety and Standards
• Published: 8 March 2013
• Last updated: 28 August 2025
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  1. 28 August 2025

     Guidance updated.

  2. 6 March 2018

     Guidance for organisations working with petrol pumps and road tankers fitted with standard temperature accounting displays has been updated to version 13.

  3. 21 June 2017

     Standard temperature accounting guidance has been updated to Version 12.

  4. 2 March 2016

     Standard Temperature Accounting guidance updated with February 2016 version 11.

  5. 7 July 2015

     Update to the Standard Temperature Accounting Displays guidance. Version 9 has now been replaced with version 10 (February 2015). The email address for requesting accessible formats has also been updated.

  6. 23 April 2014

     Updated standard temperature accounting guidance. Version 9 April 2014.

  7. 8 March 2013

     First published.

Documents

Guidance note on standard temperature accounting (STA) displays: version 14

PDF, 425 KB, 21 pages

Details

This is the technical weights and measures guidance for retailers, manufacturers, Weights and Measures Inspectors and Approved Verifiers working with standard temperature accounting.