The meeting was attended by the Contact Persons of TC 1.12 “RMs” from 8 COOMET member-countries – Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Germany, Kazakhstan, Russia, Slovakia and Uzbekistan, the Project Coordinators and specialists from various areas of national economies of COOMET member-countries, participating in the development of specific types of reference materials.

Participants of the meeting exchanged the information on the works in the area of RMs, conducted in their countries and within the framework of international organizations ISO/REMCO, COMAR, OIML TC 3/SC 3, CIS (EASC NTCMetr WG RM).

The meeting discussed the results of works on the finalized projects, the progress of the current projects of cooperation concerned the development of COOMET RMs, comparison of RMs and the development of normative documents on RM problem, the issue of initiating new projects “Classifier of COOMET reference materials” and “The use of pure substances as reference standards and reference materials in the demonstration and implementation of calibration and measurement capabilities of COOMET NMIs”.

Particular attention was paid to the Programme of joint COOMET RM development, updated as of September 2013 within ongoing project 186/RU/99, the presentation materials on the proposed projects on COOMET RM development were considered, the scope of works was discussed and approved.

For each of the issues discussed, decisions, defining the plan of further actions and their timeframe were taken.