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  Mr KOCHSIEK informed the Committee that on that very day, the 3rd October 1990, Germany was being reunified. Every branch of the law, including that of metrology, of the Federal Republic of Germany would therefore apply thenceforth in the former German Democratic Republic. The PTB was responsible for the scientific aspects of metrology and, as concerned legal metrology, for pattern approvals, whereas the authorities of the eleven Lander that had hitherto constituted the FRG were responsible for verifications. The scientific activities of the former ASMW would be taken over by the PTB, while the ASMW's former responsibility for verification would be assumed by the institutions of the five new Lander that would be constituted in the territory of the former GDR. From that day forward the regulations of the FRG were applicable in the former GDR. The PTB would continue to be sited at Brunswick and Berlin; however, the ASMW's centre in Berlin would become PTB's third site. The consequences for OIML would be the following: