42ND MEETING OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL COMMITTEE FOR METROLOGY OF STANDARTIZATION INTERGOVERNMENTAL COUNCIL AND 17TH MEETING OF WORKING GROUP ON NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING

These days in Astana was held the 42nd meeting of Scientific and Technical Committee for Metrology of Standardization Intergovernmental Council of Metrology and Certification (hereinafter - STCMetr) and the 17th meeting of Working Group on Non-Destructive Testing (NDT STCMetr WG) of CIS countries.

The moderator of the meeting of Technical Regulation and Metrology Committee of MID RK with the support of «Kazakhstan Institute of Metrology» RSE.

In the event the representatives of national bodies on metrology of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan.

During the meeting the regional cooperation on development of inter-state standards and other normative documents in the sphere of ensuring the unity of measurements, implementation of agreements on mutual recognition of results of metrological works, development of inter-state regulations for the improvement of quality and mutually of delivered energy, creating metrological support system of measurements (energy combustion) of fuel gas caloricity in gaseous calorimetry, and other fuels, and other issues are going to be discussed. Participants will exchange the information on work which is carried out by the national authorities in the area of ​​ ensuring the unity of measurements.

In the meantime, a meeting of Working Group on Non-Destructive Testing is prescribed, as a tool that is widely used in many industries, and the one which allows maintaining special responsibility facilities in good condition on the basis of an objective evaluation of their technical condition without dismantling or suspending its operation. A variety of non-destructive methods, each of which is sensitive to a particular property of a material provides receiving of information on a variety of characteristics of the object.

An activity carried out in the framework of STCMetr and its working groups contribute to the further strengthening of trade and economic relations between the CIS countries, simplification of metrology procedures and recognition of metrological work, saving of financial and production resources, elimination of technical barriers in trade, development of agreed decisions on national systems for ensuring the uniformity measurement development, which creates the necessary conditions for integration strengthening within the Eurasian Economic Union and CIS countries.