The Federal Agency on Technical Regulating and Metrology (Rosstandart)

Head: Grigory I. Elkin

Head of the Metrology Department: Dr. Vladimir Lakhov

Contacts:

Address: 9 Leninsky Prospect, 117049 Moscow, Russia

Telephone: +7 (499) 236-03-00

Fax: +7  (499) 236-62-31, 237-60-32

Web-site: www.gost.ru

E-mail: info@gost.ru, metrol@gost.ru,

The State Metrology Service is a subsidiary of Rostechregulirovanie, which incorporates state scientific centres (research metrology institutes) and local metrology departments of different regions of Russia.

Rosstandart coordinates the work of the following:

• State Service of Time and Frequency and Determination of the Earth Rotation Parameters (SSTF),
• State Service of Reference Materials of the Composition and Properties of Substances and Materials (SSRM);
• State Service of Standard Reference Data of Physical Constants and Properties of Substances and Materials (SSSRD).
• Rostechregulirovanie carries out state metrological surveillance and control over measuring instruments.

State metrology control covers the following:

• Type approval of measuring instruments;
• Verification of measuring instruments;
• Licensing of the activities pertaining to manufacture and maintenance of measuring instruments by egal and natural persons.

State metrology surveillance is carried out over the following:

• Manufacture, maintenance and application of measuring instruments; certified measuring procedures; measurement standards; compliance with metrological norms and directives;
• Amount of goods excepted from commercial transactions;
• Amount of goods in any type of packages in manufacture and trade.

International cooperation in the field of metrology is performed with the following organisations:

• International Organisation of Legal Metrology (OIML);
• International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM);
• Euro-Asian Cooperation of National Metrological Institutions (COOMET);
• Asia-Pacific Legal Metrology Forum (APLMF);
• Interstate Council for Standardisation, Metrology and Certification (EASC);
• Other international and regional organisations.

Metrology institutes of Russian Federation actively collaborate with national metrology centres of Germany, the USA, the United Kingdom, Slovakia, Japan, France, Korea, China, India, Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, etc.

A good deal of activity regarding the development, improvement, maintenance and use of national measurement standards, as well as research in the field of metrology including elaboration of normative documents of GSI is carried out by Metrology Institutes of Rostechregulirovanie. The majority of these institutes is specialised in specific fields of measurements and accredited as state test centres of measuring instruments and verification centres, as bodies on voluntary certification of measuring instruments and at the same time authorised to perform accreditation in the Russian System of Calibration (RSC).