23rd meeting of COOMET President's Council

23rd meeting of COOMET President's Council was held in BelGIM (Minsk, Belarus) on 27-29 of November 2018.

The meeting was chaired by COOMET President, BelGIM Director Valery Hurevich.

Members of the COOMET President’s Council from 5 COOMET member-countries (Belarus, Georgia, Germany, Russia and Ukraine), Chairperson of TC 3.1 "Quality Forum Technical Committee", Secretary of COOMET Joint Committee of Measurement Standards, representatives of COOMET National Secretariats, PTB experts and other invited guests was participated in the work of the meeting.

 

Among other results the following should be noted:

 

  • a decision is taken to establish a Working Group on Development of the COOMET Strategy: realization of this decision will be discussed in February 2019;
  • an amended draft of Protocol on cooperation and interaction in the field of metrology between COOMET and EASC was approved. The protocol will be signed by СООМЕТ President and EASC chairperson after approval by COOMET Committee (presumably in June 2019);
  • proposals of COOMET to the Action Plan on Cooperation between COOMET and EURAMET for 2019 are agreed and approved. These proposals were prepared in the framework Memorandum of Understanding between COOMET and EURAMET;
  • taking into consideration the Resolution 1 "On the revision of the International System of Units (SI)" drawn at 26th meeting of CGPM a discussion among Chairpersons of JCMS and TC 1.1 – ТС 1.12 will be triggered and address the actions of CООМЕТ required by this resolution; a workshop dedicated to the issue of SI units redefinition is planned to be held in 2019 and assumes attendance of Chairpersons of TCs of COOMET and other interested parties.

 

During the meeting the current activities of structural bodies of COOMET as regards realization of CIPM MRA (CMCs review, comparisons of Measurement Standards, assessment of QMS of NMIs of COOMET), activities in legal metrology, dissemination of information and training was considered аs well as outcomes of other events held within СООМЕТ in 2018.

Program of Comparisons of Measurement Standards of COOMET NMIs (as of November 28, 2018) was approved and signed by COOMET President.

COOMET Presidential Council accepted the Policy and Plan of Technical Committee of COOMET Quality Forum transition to ISO 17034:2016 and ISO/IEC 17025:2017 in the assessment of QMS of National Metrology institutes (NMI) and Designated Institutes (DI). A Plan of work on updating the documents of the COOMET Quality Forum aiming at realization of the Policy was also accepted.

A development of a unified new information resource of COOMET was discussed: further work will concern the preparation of a technical task for development of a new information resource of COOMET.

It was agreed to hold a VIII International competition "COOMET Best young metrologist – 2019" on 5-6 July 2019 года in Kazan. Russia. An Organizing Committee and Scientific board of the competition will be defined soon and a preparation for this event will start from collecting applications from future participants. According to proposal of COOMET Vice-president Mr. S. Golubev a scientific conference on issues of metrology will be held together with the competition

 

Presentations of the meeting

 

Working documents:

 

AgendaLetter
ProgrammQuestionnaire
Working
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