Gordon Clark EUROMET Secretary

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Gordon Clark EUROMET Secretary
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EUROMET Report to APMP September 2005
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EUROMET

• Objective
• Promote the coordination of metrological
  activities and services with the purpose of
  achieving higher efficiency.
• The main aims of EUROMET
• Encourage cooperation in the development of
  national standards and measuring methods
• Optimise the use of resources and services
• Improve measurement facilities and make them
  accessible to all members
• Perform comparisons to ensure a better coherence
  of measurements.

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MEMBERSHIP

• 34 full Members, of which
• 24 are Signatories of the Metre Convention
• 5 are Associates of the CGPM
• 30 are Signatories of CIPM MRA
• 3 Corresponding Applicants
• Albania, FYR Macedonia, Ukraine

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Structure of EUROMET
EUROMET Committee
34 Delegates
Ad hoc
Working Parties
EUROMET Chairman
EUROMET Secretary
EUROMET
12 Technical Committees
Executive Committee
12 TC Chairpersons
330 Contact Persons
Acoustics, ultrasound and vibration TC-AUV Elect
ricity and magnetism TC-EM Flow TC-F Interdiscip
linary metrology TC-IM Ionising
radiation TC-IR Length TC-L Mass and related
quantities TC-M Metrology in chemistry TC-MC Lab
oratory quality systems TC-Q Photometry and
radiometry TC-PR Thermometry TC-T Time and
frequency TC-TF
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EUROMET Executive Committee

• Seton Bennett (Chairman, NPL, UK)
• Janko Drnovsek (MIRS, Slovenia)
• Luc Erard (LNE, France)
• Helge Kildal (JV, Norway)
• Michael Kühne (Chairman-elect, PTB, Germany)
• Ed de Leer (NMi, The Netherlands)
• Arnold Leitner (BEV, Austria)
• Ani Todorova (SAMTS, Bulgaria)

Secretary is Gordon Clark (NPL, UK). Chairman and
Secretary changes every 2 years.
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EUROMET Technical Committees

• New TC for Quality
• Chair is Attilio Sacconi (IMGC, Italy)
• New TC Chairs elected
• TC-AUV Enver Sadikoglu (UME, Turkey)
• TC-IR István Csete (OMH, Hungary)
• TC-M Stuart Davidson (NPL, United Kingdom)
• TC-TF Gregor Dudle (METAS, Switzerland)

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EUROMET Projects
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EUROMET Projects
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EUROMET Projects
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EUROMET Projects
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EUROMET General Assembly

• 19th General Assembly
• 25-27 May 2005
• Varna, Bulgaria
• APMP represented by Dr Akira Ono
• 20th General Assembly
• 31 May-2 June 2006
• Vienna, Austria

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CIPM MRA

• 11 026 CMCs declared
• 9 620 published on BIPM database
• 1 406 undergoing inter-RMO review
• Quality Systems
• 29 Members or CAs approved
• 91 NMIs or DIs
• Details at http//www.euromet.org/tc/open/tc-q/
• Key and Supplementary Comparisons
• 147 Comparisons in 9 of 10 subject fields
• 56 approved by KCDB

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EUROMET and EA

• EUROMET/EA Memorandum of Understanding
• Signed June 2005
• MoU states that EUROMET and EA have agreed
• to continue to work together for the benefit of
  all their members stakeholders,
• to ensure the timely exchange of information on
  matters of common interest,
• to identify opportunities for mutual
  representation in selected committees and working
  groups,
• to strive for harmonised policies on matters of
  common interest and concern,
• to communicate those policies to the European
  Commission and other interested parties.

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iMERA

• Objective is to increase impact from national
  investment in metrology RD
• Approach
• Exchange of information between national
  programmes will enable best practice to be
  identified and adopted Leading to a substantial
  increase in project level collaboration
• Strategic activities will lead to the launching
  of joint research projects, funded by the
  existing national programmes.
• Access to special metrological facilities
  available in just one or few countries
• Joint investments in new facilities explored.
• Final aim is a joint metrology RD programme
• Preparation of a European Metrology Research
  Programme (EMRP)
• Prospect of a joint action implementing the EMRP
  between the European Commission and interested
  countries utilising Article 169 of the European
  Treaty.

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iMERA Timing and participants

• Project started 1 April 2005, lasting 3 years
• 20 partners from 14 countries (including
  JRC-IRMM)
• Partners include 5 ministries
• NPL (UK), DTI (UK), BMWA (Germany), PTB
  (Germany), LNE (France), IMGC (Italy), SP
  (Sweden), UNMS (Slovakia), SMU (Slovakia), EZ
  (The Netherlands), NMi VSL (The Netherlands), DFM
  (Denmark), METAS (Switzerland), JV (Norway),
  COSMT (Czech Republic), CMI (Czech Republic), GUM
  (Poland), MIRS (Republic of Slovenia), MIKES
  (Finland), IRMM-JRC (European Commission)
• Coordinator is Andy Henson (NPL, UK)
• andy.henson_at_npl.co.uk

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iMERA Workshops

• MIRS (Slovenia) - 17-21 October 2005
• Foresight workshop
• Prioritisation workshop
• EUROMET TC Chairs
• Network Management Committee
• Network Steering Committee
• PTB (Berlin) - 1-2 December 2005
• Programme Owners Managers Forum
• KT Workshop

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Gordon Clark EUROMET Secretary
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