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International Organization of Legal Metrology

Organisation Internationale de Métrologie Légale

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Impact and Benefits of being a

Member State

of the OIML

Presented by

Stephen A PATORAY

BIML Director



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Outline

• What is the OIML

• What is Legal Metrology

• What are the benefits of being a Member of the OIML

• A short journey related to Quality Infrastructure

• Conclusions



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Stephen Patoray: BIML Director

• Mechanical Engineer by education

• Masters in Business Administration

• Certified Association Executive

• Auditor for ISO 9001 and 17025

• Certified Six Sigma Green Belt

• Over 25 years experience in Industry

• Over 8 years serving as NTEP Director in US

• Federal Agent for US Department of Agriculture

• BIML Director for the past 7 years



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The OIML is an intergovernmental treaty organization.

It was established in 1955

in order to promote the global harmonization

of legal metrology procedures.



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Member States (62)

• Have signed or acceded to the OIML Treaty

• Participate fully and vote in all OIML matters

• May appoint an Issuing Authority

• May fully participate in the MAA and in the CPRs

Corresponding Members (66)

• Have not yet acceded to the OIML Treaty

• May attend CIML and Conference Meetings as observers

• May participate in OIML Technical work

• May participate in the MAA as utilizing participants



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OIML

Conference meets every 4 years

CIML

The Committee meets every year

BIML

Is the Secretariat for the Organization



817a Asamblea IAAC y 3er Congreso Internacional ONAC- ASOSECAugust 2012

Dr. Yukinobu MikiCIML

First Vice-President

Pr. Roman SchwartzCIML

PresidentCIML

Second Vice-President

Presidency




StephenPATORAYDirector

IanDUNMILLAssistant Director

JalilADNANIDatabase SystemsManagement

Jean-ChristopheESMIOLIT SystemsManagement

FlorenceMARTINIEAdministrator,Finance

LuisMUSSIOEngineer

ChrisPULHAMEditor/Webmaster

PatriciaSAINT-GERMAINAdministrator,Members



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The OIML,

with the help of technical experts which work through

Technical Committees and Project Groups,

creates written standards for use in legal metrology



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Technical work

• over 59 work projects:

Outcome

• over 100 Recommendations

• 27 Documents

• 12 Basic publications

• 2 Vocabularies

• 18 Guides



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OIML D1

Elements for a Law on Metrology

OIML D29

Guide for the application of ISO/IEC Guide 65 to assessment of

measuring instrument certification bodies in legal metrology

OIML D30

Guide for the application of ISO/IEC 17025 to the assessment

of Testing Laboratories involved in legal metrology

OIML R 76

Non-automatic weighing instruments

OIML R 117

Fuel Dispensers



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Regional Legal Metrology Organizations

AFRIMETS

APLMF

COOMET

GULFMET

SIM

WELMEC



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What is legal metrology?



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Metrology:

Metrology is the science of measurement and its

application

Metrology includes all theoretical and

practical aspects of measurement



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In simple terms, some desribe three areas of

metrology

Scientific

Legal

Industrial



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Legal metrology:

Legal metrology is the practice and the process of

applying regulatory structure and enforcement to

metrology.



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Legal metrology relies on the following activities by a

government:

1. establishing a law

2. enforcing the law; and

3. providing traceability for measurements



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government:


Why should there be a law?



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government:


The OIML develops model regulations, or written

standards called International Recommendations,

which provide an internationally agreed-upon basis for

the establishment of national legislation on various

categories of measuring instruments.



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government:


“…since there is an increasingly global aspect to many

measurements, a country’s Law on Metrology should

take this global aspect into account, as far as

possible.”



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government:


This is the first area where the OIML can have a direct

benefit on a Member State



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government:

2. enforcing the law

This is a continuous activity of the Member State, however; the

OIML assists with programs in registering and recognizing

Certificates of Conformity




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government:

2. enforcing the law

An international study found that for each $1

spent on regular periodic inspections,

$11.40 of non-complying measurement was corrected.

See the Birch report, page 29:

http://www.oiml.org/publications/birch_study.html




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government:

3. providing traceability for measurements and measuring instruments.

Legal metrology complements scientific and industrial metrology and

supports the practical applicationof measurements within the community.




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The OIML along with these other International Organizations

have signed

Joint Declaration on Traceability



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How does legal metrology help society?



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How does legal metrology help society?

Reducing technical barriers to trade

Promoting good governance

Collecting government revenue

Improving health

Reducing deaths and injuries

Managing inventory control and reducing fraud



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What are the benefits of becoming a member of OIML?



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As a Member State of the OIML one can:

• Become part of an international network of standards

makers

• Participate in Conference and CIML Meetings with voting

rights

• Participate in Technical Committees and Project Groups as

Secretariat and Convenership with full voting rights

• Declare an issuing authority for OIML Certification System

• Participate fully in the OIML – CS (Certificate System)



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Fragmentation

2017 33

Fragmentation

“These new areas are all characterized by the usual problems caused by inconsistent, fragmented and non-coherent legislation, with metrologically unrelated regulators, implementing bodies and user groups. It impedes a rational use of the global measurement system and cost-effective compatibility.”Knut Birkeland 1998: Legal Metrology at the Dawn of the 21st Century: The Role and Responsibilities of the OIML

2017 34

Fragmentation

Smart “everything”

“the cloud”

Self-driving vehicles, Drones, On-line shopping

Climate change, Alternative energy sources

The Internet of Things

And the list goes on

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Prepackaged goods

Software

Technology’s rapid advancement

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Pattern (type) approval

Conformity to type (CTT)

Verification

Market surveillance

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Legal metrology touches each of us every day.

In fact metrology touches each of us every day

I suggest that there is only metrology…..

that is used in many areas including:

scientific, legal and industrial areas

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Are we able to see a way forward?

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2017 42

The cooperation between OIML, BIPM, ISO and ILAC along

with IEC and IAF has been in effect for some time

this cooperation must be improved and expanded

many other international organizations that are not directly

standards or metrology based must also be engaged at a

much more significant level.

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DCMAS Network

https://www.dcmas.net

A quality infrastructure must

combine the standards, regulations, metrology, accreditation,

certification, conformity assessment and other parts to

form a consistent set of requirements that will begin to remove

the fragmentation that now exists in metrology.

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A national, regional, and even international

quality infrastructure is essential

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2017 46

Existing

clients

Meet

expande

d needs

Attract

new

clients

New

relationships

and new

clients with

expanded

needs

Current level of Standards and methods

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Regional Metrology Organizations (RMOs) recognized within the framework of the CIPM MRA

Can we begin to build a similar framework within legal

metrology?

With the Regional Legal Metrology Organizations taking a

lead role.

2017 49

Metrology and

an international Law on Metrology

an international Quality Infrastructure

an international Mutual Recognition System

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A quality infrastructure must

combine the standards, regulations, metrology, accreditation,

certification, conformity assessment and other parts to form a

consistent set of requirements that will begin to remove the

fragmentation that now exists in metrology.

2017 51

• Embrace Change

• Pull together

• Eliminate Fragmentation

• One Metrology

• International Quality Infrastructure

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“It is dangerously easy to lag behind, to serve

yesterday's world instead of today's, neglecting to

prepare for tomorrow's. To be boxed in by the trivial

chores of every day and let the world change unnoticed,

like the driver who concentrates so hard on keeping his

car in the lane on the motorway that he does not [notice

the exit].”

Knut Birkeland 1998: Legal Metrology at the Dawn of the

21st Century: The Role and Responsibilities of the OIML

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Thank You

Presented by

Stephen A PATORAY

BIML Director