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International Organization of Legal Metrology
Organisation Internationale de Métrologie Légale
OIML Update
Willem KOOL
BIML Assistant Director
2008.11.04
UNECE WP6, Geneva
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Conference and Committee
• 27 – 31 October 2008, Sydney, Australia:
– 13th Conference:
• Approved 2009-2012 budget
• Sanctioned new and revised OIML Recommendations
– 43rd CIML Meeting:
• Approved new and revised OIML Recommendations
and Documents
• Withdrew Recommendations on hardness testing
– Associated meetings:
• Regional Legal Metrology Organizations Round Table
• Working Group on Conformity to Type
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OIML Recommendations
• Contain:
– Harmonized technical and metrological
requirements for measuring instruments
– Test procedures
– Test report format
• Model regulations: OIML Member States
have a moral obligation to implement
• International standards: Article 2.4 of the
WTO/TBT Agreement
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New Recommendations
• R 56:2008 Standard solutions reproducing the
electrolytic conductivity
• R 71:2008 Fixed storage tanks. General
requirements
• R 85:2008 Automatic level gauges for measuring
the level of liquid in stationary storage tanks
• R 99:2008 Instruments for measuring vehicle
exhaust emissions (OIML-ISO joint publication)
• R 141:2008 Procedure for calibration and
verification of the main characteristics of
thermographic instruments
• R 142:2008 Automated refractometers: Methods
and means of verification
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New Documents
• D 29:2008 Guide for the application of ISO/IEC
Guide 65 to assessment of measuring instrument
certification bodies in legal metrology
• D 30:2008 Guide for the application of ISO/IEC
17025 to the assessment of Testing Laboratories
involved in legal metrology
• D 31:2008 General requirements for software
controlled measuring instruments
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OIML Publications
• All OIML Publications may be downloaded
free of charge from:
www.oiml.org/publications
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Membership
• 59 Member States
• 57 Corresponding Members
• New corresponding member in 2008:
Montenegro
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OIML MAA
• OIML Mutual Acceptance Arrangement for
Measuring Instruments (Type approval evaluation)
R 49 DoMC
(Water meters)
R 60 DoMC
(load cells)
R 76 DoMC
(NAWIs)
Participants
(Issuing and Utilizing)
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Issuing Participants
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MAA Certificates issued
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Information
www.oiml.org
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