The Information Center for Business Standardization and Certification (BSC) at Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad, has organized on January 25, 2012, a Conference entitled „Development of quality infrastructure in metrology, standardization, accreditation and certification”. The Conference was dedicated to the anniversary of the establishment of this Centre and on this occasion the speakers were: Mrs. Joanna Gajdek, M.Sc., Director of the Austrian Standards Institute; Mrs. Vida Zivkovic, M.Sc., Director of Directorate of Measures and Precious Metals; Mr. Ivan Krstic, M.Sc., Director of institute of Standardization of Serbia; Mrs. Dusanka Santovac, Senior Advisor of the Accreditation Board of Serbia; Prof. Dr. Valentina Marinkovic, Vice President of JUSK; Mrs. Marija Vujakovic, Director of BSC Centre; Prof. Dr. Dragutin Stanivukovic, Director of CETA CONSULTING; Doc. Dr. Zoran Klaba, Director of IBA-ADA, and Dr. Stevan Odri.

Director of the Directorate of Measures and Precious Metals, Vida Zivkovic, presented a paper entitled „Development of Metrology in Serbia – The importance of metrology for quality infrastructure and the role of the Directorate of Measures and Precious Metals”.