1. Willem KOOL BIML Assistant Director
OIML Update
Willem KOOL
BIML Assistant Director
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2. Conference and Committee
27 – 31 October 2008, Sydney, Australia:
13th Conference:
Approved 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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 to the assessment of Testing Laboratories involved in legal metrology
D 31:2008 General requirements for software controlled measuring instruments
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6. OIML Publications
All OIML Publications may be downloaded free of charge from:
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7. Membership 59 Member States 57 Corresponding Members
New corresponding member in 2008:
Montenegro
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8. 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) 7 17 18
Issuing Participants 2 6 8
MAA Certificates issued - 5
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9. Information
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