14th OIML Conference — Resolutions (EN)

Resolves: (a) Conference invitations, agendas, working documents, minutes and resolutions Committee resolutions, circulars to Committee Members, CIML President and BIML Director's reports to the Committee, OIML Recommendations, Documents and Basic Publications, and OIML budgets and financial reports shall be made available in French and in English; (b) The OIML web site shall be available in both English and French versions; (c) The OIML Bulletin shall be published in English with articles occasionally also published in French when appropriate; (d) Other publications and communications shall be in English; (e) The Bureau may make available translations of publications into other languages provided by the Member States, if it is clearly indicated that the OIML is not responsible for the translation; (f) Conferences and meetings of the Committee shall have simultaneous interpretation from French to English and from English to French; (g) On occasion, Conferences and meetings of the Committee may have interpretation to and from other languages, provided this is not funded from the Organization's regular budget; (h) All other meetings shall be conducted in English without interpretation provided by the Organization.

Resolves: The position of "Facilitator for developing country matters" is dissolved.

Resolves: The revision of the OIML Financial Regulations (OIML B 8:2012) is sanctioned.

Resolves: The budget surpluses (net results) from the 2009-2012 financial period shall be kept in reserve.

Resolves: The audited accounts for 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 are hereby approved. The CIML President and the BIML Director are finally discharged for their financial management during these years.

Resolves: (a) The following OIML Recommendations are hereby sanctioned. Member States are reminded of their obligation to implement these Recommendations as far as possible: - R 35-2:2011 Material measures of length for general use. Part 2: Test methods - R 35-3:2011 Material measures of length for general use. Part 3: Test report format - R 46-1 and R 46-2:2012 Active electrical energy meters - R 80-1:2009 Road and rail tankers with level gauging. Part 1: Metrological and technical requirements - R 106-1:2011 Automatic rail-weighbridges. Part 1: Metrological and technical requirements - Tests - R 106-2:2012 Automatic rail-weighbridges. Part 2: Test report format - R 120:2010 Standard capacity measures for testing measuring systems for liquids other than water - R 126:2012 Evidential breath analyzers - R 134-2:2009 Automatic instruments for weighing road vehicles in motion and measuring axle loads. Part 2: Test report format - R 137-1&2:2012 Gas meters. Part 1: Metrological and technical requirements and Part 2 Metrological controls and performance tests - Am R 138:2009 Amendment to R 138:2007 Vessels for commercial transactions - R 143:2009 Instruments for the continuous measurement of $ SO_{2} $ in stationary source emissions (b) The following OIML Documents are hereby sanctioned: - D 1:2012 Considerations for a law on metrology - D 16:2011 Principles of assurance of metrological control (c) The withdrawal of the following OIML publications is hereby sanctioned: - 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

Resolves: The OIML Strategy as laid down in OIML B 15:2011 is hereby sanctioned. The Committee is instructed to implement this strategy taking into account the budgetary resources.

Resolves: The classification of Member States according to Article XXVI (1) of the Convention shall be reviewed in the final year of a financial period in order to determine the respective contributory shares of the Member States for the following financial period. The review shall be according to the method decided by the Committee at its 40th Meeting in 2005. However, any change in the classification of a Member State shall take effect from the second year of the following financial period.

Resolves: (a) The overall amount of credits, necessary to cover the Organization's operating expenses shall be €8278200 for the 2013-2016 financial period; (b) The annual base contributory share for the 2013-2016 financial period is $ \epsilon $14000. This results in an annual contribution for a Member State classified according to Article XXVI (1) of the Convention in Class 1, Class 2, Class 3 or Class 4 of $ \epsilon $14000, $ \epsilon $28000, $ \epsilon $56000 or $ \epsilon $112000, respectively, (c) In case of admission of a Member State during the financial period, the overall amount of credits mentioned in (a) is increased with the contributory share of that Member State, calculated from its classification and the base contributory share, proportionate to the period from its admission to the expiry of the financial period, (d) For the 2013-2016 financial period, newly admitted or readmitted Member States shall not pay an entry fee.

Resolves: (a) A Member State which has not paid its annual contribution for three consecutive years shall automatically be considered as having resigned, according to Article XXIX, first paragraph, of the Convention; (b) A Member State which has not fully paid its annual contribution shall be automatically considered as having resigned when its accumulated arrears amount to the total of the last three years of contributions due; (c) A Member State in arrears will receive a final written warning at least six months before the accumulation of the three-year amount mentioned in (a) or (b). The warning will include a request to pay the full amount; (d) The provisions of (a), (b) and (c) apply accordingly to Corresponding Members with respect to annual Corresponding Member fees.

Resolves: (a) A Member State which has officially been regarded as having resigned may be readmitted only after it has settled its unpaid contributions, the amount of which is calculated as the total contribution that the Member State would have had to pay over the last three years immediately prior to the year of readmission according to the classification of that Member State at the time of readmission; (b) The provisions in (a) apply accordingly to Corresponding Members with respect to Corresponding Member fees.

Resolves: (a) Current Member States and Member States regarded as having resigned for which the OIML accounts show arrears in excess of three years of membership contribution shall have their arrears reduced to three years of membership contribution; (b) The reductions shall be accounted for in the 2012 accounts; any deficits resulting from these reductions shall be compensated by drawing from the reserve funds; (c) The provisions of (a) and (b) apply accordingly to Corresponding Members.

Resolves: In the event of the absence, impediment, cessation of mandate, resignation or death of the first Vice-President, his duties shall be temporarily assumed by the second Vice-President.

Resolves: A 'colleague' as mentioned in the first paragraph of Article XVII of the Convention may be: either another CIML Member or someone designated by the absent CIML Member to represent him/her. In the latter case, the representative shall be from the same government or administration as the absent CIML Member and may not represent other CIML Members, i.e. may not receive proxies from other CIML Members.

Resolves: The Committee is hereby charged to organize the 15th Conference in 2016, the venue and dates to be decided by the Committee.

Resolves: (a) The basis for the classification of Member States is, and remains, the figures provided by the World Bank, (b) The request from Greece is not considered to be supported with sufficient data to be able to examine the situation, (c) The request for a remission is therefore not approved.