AFRIMETS The Intra-Africa Metrology System Système Intra-Africain de Metrologie CIML Orlando. USA September 2010 Stuart Carstens AFRIMETS Head of Secretariat

Outline of Talk  Inception  The structure  The members  The Technical committees and Working Groups  The current situation

Meetings   1st General Assembly meeting 1-2 July 2007 in Midrand, South Africa;   the MoU was finalized,   the first Chair, Vice-chairs and Executive   committee members were elected   A draft Working Programme was adopted   Second meeting in Tunis, Tunisia   Third meeting in Magaliesburg, South Africa   To Date, 6 sub regions and 3 Associate members and 3 Observer organisations   42 Countries in Africa represented through AFRIMETS History

Meetings history 23/ Kick-off workshop, Midrand, South Africa July st AFRIMETS General Assembly, Midrand October st Executive Committee Meeting, Pretoria March nd Executive Committee Meeting, Casablanca July rd Executive Committee Meeting, Tunis July nd AFRIMETS General Assembly Executive Committee meeting - July 2009 Executive Committee meeting, Magalieburg, Pretoria July rd AFRIMETS General Assembly February 2010 Executive Committee meeting, Accra

GENERAL ASSEMBLY Principal Member Sub-regional African Metrology Organisation Principal Member Sub-regional African Metrology Organisation Ordinary Member African NMIs and LMOs not full member of a Sub-regional African Metrology Org. Ordinary Member African NMIs and LMOs not full member of a Sub-regional African Metrology Org. Associate Member National Metrology Institutes and Legal Metrology Organisations outside Africa Associate Member National Metrology Institutes and Legal Metrology Organisations outside Africa Observer Other Organisations interested in metrology Observer Other Organisations interested in metrology Voting: 2x Member States Voting: 1x Member Voting: none CHAIRPERSON Vice Chairperson representing Industrial Metrology Vice Chairperson representing Legal Metrology NEPAD Secretariat AFRIMETS Secretariat Up to 3 elected delegates AFRIMETS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE SECRETARIAT SUB- COMMITTEES Sc & Ind Metrology Legal Metrology The Structure of AFRIMETS

 Pan African organisations; AU, NEPAD  Regional economic groupings; COMESA, ECOWAS, SADC, EAC, UEMOA, CEMAC, MAGHREB  OIML, BIPM, IAEA  APMP, SIM, EURAMET, COOMET  African sub-regional metrology organisations: EAMET, MAGMET, SADCMET/MEL, CEMACMET, SOAMET, NEWMET  Individual NMIs  Legal Metrology organisations  Other organisations; regional accreditation, standards, calibration and testing bodies, the dti, the African Committee for Metrology, the NLA, the AFM  Pan African organisations; ARSO, AFRAC the Stakeholders, peers and others

CEMACMETCameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Republic of the Congo EAMETKenya, Uganda, (Tanzania), Rwanda, Burundi MAGMETAlgeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Mauritania SADCMEL/ MET Angola, Botswana, DRC, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Seychelles SOAMETBenin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Cote d‘Ivoire NEWMETEgypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Libya, Nigeria, Sudan the members

Associate Member (3)  LNE, France  PTB, Germany  NIRPS (National Institute of Radiation Protection and Research, Nigeria) Observer (3)  EURAMET  CAFMET (Comité Africain de Métrologie)  TEAC, SSDL, MADA  Arab Federation for Metrology the members

For the past 12 months, AFRIMETS focused on the consolidation of its TC’s and WG’s. AFRIMETS as RMO (SADCMEL) (AFRIMETS)

AFRIMETS as RLMO

Current Situation   AFRIMETS Structures are in place   Report on period under review work programme   Road Map document completed and submitted   Mobilization of member states to join OIML (SOAMET)   Develop procedure on running TC’s & giving input to OIML work   Investigate use of OIML Recommendations in National Legislation   Environmental scan on capabilities of AFRIMETS members (Questionnaire)

TC 1ACIPM, BIPM, JCRB Issues J. Kioko, S. Kajane, W. Louw TC 1B OIML Issues S. Carstens, S. Issoufou TC 2A Scientific Metrology Education M. Berrada, M. Rabolinyane, M. Masuku TC 2B Legal Metrology Education B Hassine, K Temba TC 3 Metrology Infrastructure B Hassine, V. Kanama, W.Louw TC 4AMetrology Legislation Harmonization N.Malaga, E. Mvula. D.Masuku TC 4BMetrology Legislation Harmonization B. Hassine, K. Temba TC 5 Metrology Awareness G. Albasini, V. Kanama and the Secretariat Technical Committee Structures

latest developments   2010 AFRIMETS General Assembly coincides with CIML meeting   Summer School planned for February 2011   Welmec Annual meeting in Bled, Slovenia attended by regional coordinator   Exco meeting held in Accra, Ghana in February 2010   NewMet inaugural meeting held in Accra, Ghana   Afrimets presented a report at SADCMEL meeting in Mbabane, Swaziland

Summer school topics   National Quality Infrastructures   Legal Metrology and the OIML MAA   Legal metrology overview   Measurement Uncertainty   Introduction to Mass Metrology   The African Structures: AFRIMETS, ARSO, s- RLMOs   UNIDO - Technical Capacity Building in Africa

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