OIML
Secretariat:
International Bureau of Legal Metrology
11, rue Turgot - F-75009 Paris - France
Tel.: +33 1 48 78 12 82
Fax: +33 1 42 82 17 27
General e-mail: biml@oiml.org
The
International Organization of Legal Metrology (OIML)
is an intergovernmental treaty organization whose membership includes
Member States, countries which participate actively in technical activities,
and Corresponding Members, countries which join the OIML as observers.
It was established in 1955 (see the Convention) in order to promote the
global harmonization of legal metrology procedures. Since that time, the
OIML has developed a worldwide technical structure that provides its Members
with metrological guidelines for the elaboration of national and regional
requirements concerning the manufacture and use of measuring instruments
for legal metrology applications.
Definition
of Legal Metrology
Legal Metrology is the entirety of the legislative, administrative and
technical procedures established by, or by reference to public authorities,
and implemented on their behalf in order to specify and to ensure, in
a regulatory or contractual manner, the appropriate quality and credibility
of measurements related to official controls, trade, health, safety and
the environment. OIML Certificate System
for Measuring Instruments
The OIML Certificate System for Measuring Instruments was introduced in
1991 to facilitate administrative procedures and lower the costs associated
with the international trade of measuring instruments subject to legal
requirements.
The System provides the possibility for a manufacturer to obtain an OIML
Certificate and a Test Report indicating that a given instrument type
(pattern) complies with the requirements of the relevant OIML International
Recommendations.
Certificates are delivered by OIML Member States that have established
one or several Issuing Authorities responsible for processing applications
by manufacturers wishing to have their instrument types (patterns) certified.
OIML Certificates are accepted by national metrology services on a voluntary
basis, and as the climate for mutual confidence and recognition of test
results develops between OIML Members, the System serves to simplify the
type (pattern) approval process for manufacturers and metrology authorities
by eliminating costly duplication of application and test procedures.
The OIML web site database lists those OIML Certificates registered by
the BIML, and gives the list of categories of instruments covered by the
System, the addresses of Issuing Authorities in OIML Member States (Issuing
Authorities listed here), and those of recipients of Certificates (applicants
and manufacturers).
The list of categories gives the references of the applicable Recommendations
and specifies the Member States (by their ISO country codes) which have
established an Issuing Authority for the relevant category.
In any given OIML Member State, there may be several Issuing Authorities;
however, for a given category only one Issuing Authority may exist.
The fee for registering
an OIML certificate is currently 150 EUR.
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