Third year students of the High Technical School of Professional Studies from Zrenjanin visited the Directorate of Measures and Precious Metals on March 18, 2014.

For the first time in the National Metrology Institute, the students had the opportunity to become more familiar with the role of the Directorate of Measures and Precious Metals in providing metrological traceability in Serbia. During a visit to the Directorate students toured the laboratories for mass, length, thermometry, photometry and volume.

In addition to theoretical knowledge of metrology, which were adopted in the subject Measurement of Physical Quantities, students had the opportunity to meet with the implemented, most accurate calibration methods for dissemination of values of SI units by end users, as well as with research to improve the SI unit, which performs the Directorate through the creation of new and improvement of existing national standards and ensuring metrological traceability to the international level.

As part of an established business and technical cooperation between Directorate of Measures and Precious Metals (DMDM) and the Institute for Standardization of Serbia (ISS), on March 20, 2014 representatives of the Directorate of Measures and Precious Metals Mrs. Vida Zivkovic, M.Sc., Director, and Mr. Boris Laštro, Assistant Director, visited Institute for Standardization.The guests were welcomed by Director of the Institute for Standardization Mr. Ivan Krstić and his co-workers Violeta Nešković Popović, Tatjana Bojanić, Dragan Vuksanović and Radiša Knežević. During the visit, they discussed the possibility of cooperation in the common translation of certain parts of an encyclopedia of terms in the field of electrical engineering Electropedia, then the standard ISO/IEC 80000, which deals with physical quantities and units of measurement, and also suggested the possibility of holding joint seminars organized by the two institutions.

Organized by the Foundation of Quality Culture and Excellence (FCQE) and magazine „Quality and Excellence”, with the support of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Serbia and the Serbian Chamber of Commerce, from March 5-7, 2014, was held „Quality Week 2014”. This traditional event, 23rd in turn, brought together a number of experts from science, industry and the field of quality and through the exchange of experiences and practices of successful organizations, discussed current topics in the field of quality and business excellence.

This year, was presented over 30 papers by authors from Montenegro, Croatia and Serbia, among which was the paper of Mrs. Vida Živković, M.Sc., Director of the Directorate of Measures and Precious Metals, which showed the Directorate experience as a recipient of the National Award for Business Excellence „Quality Oscar” in 2013, absolute winner in the public sector.
Special attention this year has caused a round table, with a very current topic on trends of changes in the new version of the standard ISO 9001, expected for release at the end of 2015.

On February 27, 2014, International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) has published calibration and measurement capabilities – CMCs for 12 calibration services in the field of acoustics, ultrasound and vibration (AUV), subfield of sound in air, which Directorate of Measures and Precious Metals conducts, and relating to calibration of laboratory standard microphones (LS1P and LS2P) by primary inverse calibration method.

A list of DMDM calibration capabilities is available on the BIPM website:
(http://kcdb.bipm.org/AppendixC/country_list_search.asp?page=1&pge=1&CountSelected=RS&type=AUV).

Within the project of technical assistance of FR Germany to quality infrastructure institutions in the Republic of Serbia, on March 4, 2014, in the premises of Directorate of Measures and Precious Metals was held workshop on „Notification of conformity assessment bodies in accordance with the Measuring instruments Directive (MID) and Directive on Non-automatic weighing instruments (NAWI)”.

Workshop was conducted by Dr. Harry Stolz from the National Metrology Institute of Germany (PTB – Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt) and Mr. Zoltan Zelenka from the National Metrology Institute of Austria (BEV – Bundesamt für Eich-und Vermessungswesen). Workshop was attended by representatives of the Directorate of Measures and Precious Metals, Quality Infrastructure Sector of the Ministry of Economy, as well as the Accreditation Body of Serbia.

Material from the workshop

In order to strengthen the educational, professional and technical coopration, Mrs. Vida Živković, M.Sc, Director of the Directorate of Measures and Precious Metals, Mr. Željko Sertić, Director of the Chamber of Commerce of Serbia, and Mrs. Jasna Stojanović, Acting Director of the Accreditation Board of Serbia, signed the Agreement on Cooperation on February 27, 2014.

The aim of this Agreement is primarily the exchange of professional knowledge, standards, experiences and information, organizing symposiums, seminars and other meetings; cooperation in the preparation of courses, seminars, conferences, round tables and other forms of continuous and permanent education in the field of quality infrastructure.

In the ”Official Gazette of RS”, No.9/14 of Januar 30, 2014, is published Regulation on compressed gaseous fuel measuring systems for vehicles, which will come into force on January 7, 2014.

This regulation prescribes the requirements for compressed gaseous fuel measuring systems for vehicles, marking measuring systems, technical documentation, method of determining compliance with requirements, measuring methods, manner of type examination measuring systems, and the manner and conditions for verification of measuring systems.

International Organization of Legal Metrology (OIML) adopted a new International Vocabulary of Terms in Legal Metrology (VIML). International Vocabulary was published as bilingual French-English publication in 2013. Vocabulary is the result of harmonization of terminology used in legal metrology.

International Vocabulary of Terms in Legal Metrology is available on the address: http://www.oiml.org/en/files/pdf_v/v001-ef13.pdf

In the ”Official Gazette of RS”, No. 118/13 of December 30, 2013, is published Regulation on medical thermometers, which will come into force on January 7, 2014.

This regulation prescribes the requirements for medical thermometers, medical thermometers labeling, method of determining compliance with requirements for medical thermometers, measuring methods, manner of type examination, and the manner and conditions for verification of medical thermometers.

In the ”Official Gazette of RS”, No. 118/13 of December 30, 2013, is published Regulation on reactive energy meters of accuracy class 2 and 3, which will come into force on January 7, 2014.

This regulation prescribes the requirements for reactive energy meters of accuracy class 2 and 3, their marking, method of determining compliance with the requests, manner of type examination of the reactive energy meters accuracy class 2 and 3, measurement methods, and the manner and conditions for verification of the reactive energy meters accuracy class 2 and 3.

Organized by the Directorate of Measures and Precious Metals (DMDM), on April 8, 2014, at the Palace of Serbia the Annual meeting of the authorized bodies for conducting verifications of measuring instruments was held. At the meeting were discussed issues that were primarily related to the preparation of the report on the operation of the authorized bodies for conducting verifications of measuring instruments, to the conformity of the work of the authorized bodies, as well as issues of past experiences in their work.

Participants were welcomed by Mrs. Vida Živković, M.Sc., DMDM Director, emphasized that the increased number of verified measuring instruments, compared to the previous year, indicate a tendency to achieve guarantee of accurate and reliable measures, especially in terms of impartiality, independence and confidentiality, and in this regard praised results of authorized bodies in the field of verifications of measuring instruments, as holders of public powers.

Meeting was led by Lucija Dujović, DMDM Assistant Director, who emphasized the need to harmonize possible malfunctions of authorized bodies with legal regulations.