International Organization of Legal metrology

The International Organization of Legal Metrology 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 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.

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. The OIML develops model regulations, International Recommendations, which provide Members with an internationally agreed-upon basis for the establishment of national legislation on various categories of measuring instruments. Given the increasing national implementation of OIML guidelines, more and more manufacturers are referring to OIML International Recommendations to ensure that their products meet international specifications for metrological performance and testing.

The main elements of the International Recommendations are: metrological requirements, technical requirements, methods and equipment for testing and verifying conformity to requirements.

OIML Recommendations and documents are developed by Technical Committees or Subcommittees which are formed by the Member States. Certain international and regional institutions also participate on a consultation basis. OIML cooperates with such institutions as ISO and IEC.

III Answer the questions:

1. What is OIML?

2. What is the task of OIML?

3. Who participates in the work of OIML?

4. How often is International Conference for Legal Metrology held?

5. Does OIML cooperate with other institutions?

 

IV Complete the sentences:

1. The International Organization of Legal Metrology is an … organization whose membership includes..., countries which participate actively in technical activities, and..., countries which join the OIML as observers.

2. It was established in … in order to promote the …of legal metrology procedures.

3. …is the entirety of the legislative, administrative and technical procedures.

4. The main elements of an International Recommendations are ….

5. OIML cooperates with such institutions as ….

 

V Find the English equivalents to the words:

Метрологічна процедура, впровадження, забезпечувати, зв’язок, рекомендації, спостерігач, суперечливий, одночасно.

VI Match the English words with their Ukrainian equivalents:

1. metrology procedure a) забезпечити

2. guideline b) договір про співробітництво

3. regulation c) розмір бюджету

4. implementation d) метрологічна процедура

5. ensure e) директиви, рекомендації

6. cooperative agreement f) норми, устав

7. budgetary lines g) впровадження

 

VII True or false statements:

1. OIML is established in order to promote uniformity of legal metrology procedure.

2. OIML membership includes Member States only.

3. International Recommendations of OIML are rarely used by manufacturers.

4. OIML establishes cooperative agreements with such institutions as ISO and IEC.

5. Only Member States are allowed to take part in the work of OIML Technical Committee and Sub-Committees to establish international technical guidelines.

VIII Translate into English:

1. Міжнародна Організація Юридичної Метрології – це міжурядова організація.

2. Міжнародна Організація Юридичної Метрології разом з Міжнародною Організацією Стандартизації розробляють спільні рекомендації з метою узгодження міжнародних вимог.

3. Продукція та послуги в кожній країні повинні відповідати міжнародним рекомендаціям.

4. Юридична метрологія включає юридичні, адміністративні та технічні процедури.

5. Міжнародна Організація Юридичної Метрології була створена в 1955 році з метою глобальної гармонізації юридичних процедур.

IX Make up sentences with the terms:

Model regulations, observers, International Recommendations, test laboratories, global, harmonization, guidelines, cooperative agreement, metrology procedure, Technical Committee.

X Speak on the topic using the following words and word - combinations:

The International Organization of Legal Metrology, an intergovernmental, treaty, organization, membership, Member States, participate actively, technical activities, Corresponding Members, observers, International Recommendation, Metrological requirements, Technical requirements, legal metrology, legislative, administrative, technical procedures, public authorities, the appropriate quality,credibility of measurements, official control, trade, health, safety, environment, model regulations, International Recommendations, guidelines.

 

TEXT B

 

I Read and remember:

1. National Metrology Institutes (NMI) – Національний Метрологічний Інститут

2. to designate – визначати

3. backbone – основа

4. distributed – розгалужений

II Read text and define the main idea of it: