44th CIML Meeting — Resolutions (EN)

The Committee instructed the CIML President and the BIML Director to prepare a detailed note on the use of French and English, to be submitted for approval at the 14th Conference in 2012.

The Committee approved the Minutes of the 43rd CIML Meeting with the following modification: On page 51, Resolution 7, after "Switzerland", insert: "and France".

The Committee expressed its appreciation for the good cooperation between the Presidential Council and the Bureau of the CIPM, as well as between the BIML and the BIPM.

The Committee expressed its appreciation for the continued cooperation with ILAC and the IAF. In order to develop this cooperation at national level, CIML Members are invited, within the applicable national legal framework and regarding the responsibilities of the relevant national bodies, to contact their National Accreditation Bodies and promote the use of appropriate technical and metrological experts and lead assessors and the associated requirements in the OIML Systems in accreditation or peer assessment wherever appropriate.

The Committee instructed the Bureau to start a revision of the OIML/IEC Memorandum of Understanding and develop cooperation with the IEC similar to that followed for the revision of the OIML/ISO MoU.

The Committee instructed the Bureau to circulate the "Table of correspondence between OIML and ISO TCs" to OIML Technical Secretariats.

The Committee welcomed the Dominican Republic and the UEMOA $ ^{1} $ as new Corresponding Members.

The Committee requested Zambia to resume reimbursing its arrears and to pay back all its arrears as soon as possible.

The Committee took note of the report given by its President.

The Committee took note of the report on the activities of the Bureau.

The Committee asked that further work be carried out to establish the best way of reporting the OIML's pension liabilities, having regard to the obligations of Member States, with a view to proposing a new rule in a draft revision of the OIML Financial Regulations (B 8) to be submitted to the Fourteenth Conference in 2012 for approval.

The Committee took note of the oral information about the report on the management and the accounts of the Bureau and confirmed the need for the President to provide the written report, or at least a resumé of the report (if necessary for the protection of privacy without names) and the follow-up of actions taken.

The Committee took note of the report on Developing Country activities and expressed its thanks to the Facilitator for Developing Countries.

The Committee took note of the progress on the revision of part 1 of the Directives for OIML Technical Work and requested the Bureau and the Working Group to complete this revision with a view to submitting it to the CIML at its meeting in 2010 for approval.

The Committee expressed its appreciation for the training provided to TC/SC Secretariats and instructed the Bureau to continue to develop formats and templates for use by the TC/SC Secretariats.

The Committee approved the launching of an R 117 DoMC limited to fuel dispensers and based on OIML R 117:1995 and R 118:1995, including the requirements of OIML R 117-1 edition 2007 as additional requirements.

The Committee approved the following publications: - Amendment to R 138 Vessels for commercial transactions; - R 143 Instruments for the continuous measurement of $ SO_{2} $ in stationary source emissions.

The Committee approved the proposal to submit the DR of the following publication to direct CIML online approval: - Revision of R 106-1 Automatic rail-weighbridges. Part 1: Metrological and technical requirements - Tests.

The Committee took note of the confirmation of the following publications:

The Committee approved the withdrawal of the following publications: R 70 Determination of intrinsic and hysteresis errors of gas analyzers; R 73 Requirements concerning pure gases CO, $ CO_{2}, $ $ CH_{4}, $ $ H_{2}, $ $ O_{2}, $ $ N_{2} $ and Ar intended for the preparation of reference gas mixtures; D7 The evaluation of flow standards and facilities used for testing water meters.

The Committee approved the following new work items: - TC 3/SC 5: Revision of D 30 Guide for the application of ISO/IEC 17025 to the assessment of Testing Laboratories involved in legal metrology; - TC 6: Revision of R 87 Quantity of product in prepackages; - TC 6: New publication on methods to determine the actual quantity of product in prepackages (drained weight, etc.) in collaboration with WELMEC WG 6; - TC 8: Revision of R 63 Petroleum measurement tables; - TC 8: Revision of R 119 Pipe provers for testing of measuring systems for liquids other than water.

The Committee noted that the outcome of the periodic review by TC 8 on the confirmation, revision or withdrawal of the following publications: - R120 Standard capacity measures for testing measuring systems for liquids other than water; D25 Vortex meters used in measuring systems for fluids; and D26 Glass delivery measures - Automatic pipettes was indecisive, but that for each there was a majority of P-members in favor of retaining the publications. The Committee further noted that a number of references in these publications are no longer up-to-date and that this was the reason for some P-members to vote for a revision. The Committee, therefore: - requests the secretariat of TC 8 to submit to the Bureau listings of updated references for these publications; and - instructs the Bureau to publish the lists of updated references and updated versions of these publications.

The Committee took note of the information given on the election of a President to be held in 2010 and reminded CIML Members that candidacies must be sent to the Bureau at the latest by the end of May 2010.

The Committee noted that the term of the BIML Director will expire at the end of 2010.

The Committee thanked the USA for its presentation on the venue of the 45th Committee Meeting to be held in Orlando (Florida), USA from 20-24 September 2010.

The Committee thanked the Czech Republic for inviting the Committee to hold its 46th meeting in the Czech Republic in 2011, and accepted this invitation.

The Committee noted that: - the increasing importance of prepackaged foods and beverages in global trade now accounts for over 75 % of agri-foods exports; - developing country exports are particularly disadvantaged by having to conform to a multiplicity of international requirements; and - the review of the longstanding OIML R 79 arising from the World Wine Trade Group Labeling Agreement and the 2006 OIML seminar on prepackaging have not resulted in an exemption for wine labeling. The Committee recommended that CIML Members bring this resolution to the attention of their national WTO-TBT enquiry point.