“This is exactly what we needed!” – Ensuring Quality to Access Markets: A Reform Toolkit

Events, International, PublicationsRebecca Husemann

They came from places as far away as Angola and Bosnia, from Canada and Vietnam – 170 metrologists from 70 countries met in Hamburg on 9-12 October at the invitation of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) for the annual meeting of the International Organization of Legal Metrology (OIML Their goal was to discuss the further steps…

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The Harmonisation of Metrological Laws

InternationalManfred Kochsiek, Hans-Dieter Velfe

The free trade of goods and services not only calls for political guidelines, but for norms and regulations to be recognised worldwide as well. It is often the case that developing and newly industrialised countries in particular do not have the resources to establish their own quality infrastructures (QI). An essential part of a QI…