International Relations Office Report of Activities

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International Relations Office Report of
Activities

• LEPL Georgian National Agency for Standards,
  Technical Regulations and Metrology

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• Georgian National Agency for Standards, Technical
  Regulations and Metrology
• The main activities of GEOSTM are the following
• To organize the activity of national
  standardization and metrology through the
  elaboration of legislative and normative
  documents in these fields
• To elaborate fundamental standards in the
  mentioned fields
• To elaborate mandatory methodological regulations
  in the fields of standardization and metrology
• To elaborate the respective normative technical
  regulations,
• To represent Georgia in international and
  regional organizations of standardization and
  metrology.

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• ISO (International Standardization Organization)
• Georgia retrieve the status of Corresponding-membe
  r of ISO from July 1, 2006.
• Benefit
• The country is receiving
• International standards,
• Technical reports, manuals and training
  documents
• Reports on activities carried out in technical
  committees
• Reports of sessions of General Assembly,
  technical heading bureau and technical
  committees other publications and documents on
  activities of the organization and its members.
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• Georgia is in committees of ISO with an
  observers status
• CASCO estimation of compliance,
• KOPOLGO consumers rights
• DEVCO -demands of developing countries
• INFCO/ISONET informational systems of
  standardization and estimation of compliance.

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• Georgia has adopted more than 4000 standards of
  ISO and EN
• Including European Harmonized standards in the
  priority areas
• ISO - 1746 standards
• EN/ISO 1525
• According to the WTO TBT Agreement requirements
  (notification Obligation), TBT enquiry point of
  GEOSTM sent 9 notifications to the WTO
  secretariat QI2011.

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• CEN European Committee for
  Standardization
• IN 2008 year Georgia became the Affiliated member
  of CEN
• Benefit
• CEN is a major provider of European Standards and
  technical specifications.
• ENs help build a European Internal Market for
  goods and services and position Europe in the
  global economy.

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• CENELEC European Committee for
  Electrotechnical Standardization
• Georgia became the Affiliated member of CENELECIN
  2010 year
• Benefit
• IT is a platform for experts to develop European
  Standards (ENs), which facilitate world trade by
  removing barriers to trade, enhancing economic
  growth and leading to new markets.
• The economic benefits of standardization
  contribute to growth of all economic and societal
  actors.

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• IEC International Electro-technical Commission
• Georgia became the associate member of the
  International Electro-technical Commission in
  2010
• Benefit
• It made the electro-technical standards more
  accessible in Georgia that is most important to
  the energy sector
• It is a platform to companies, industries and
  governments for meeting, discussing and
  developing the International Standards they
  require.

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• COOMET EURO-ASIAN COOPERATION OF NATIONAL
  METROLOGICAL INSTITUTIONS
• Georgia became the Full member of COOMET in 2006.
• Benefit
• Assistance in effective addressing the problems
  relating to uniformity of measures, uniformity of
  measurements and the required accuracy of their
  results
• Assistance in promoting cooperation of national
  economies and eliminating technical barriers in
  international trade
• Harmonization of activities of metrology services
  of Euro-Asian countries with similar activities
  in other regions.

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• OIML International Organization of Legal
  Metrology
• Georgia became the correspondent member of OIML
  in 2011.
• Benefit
• To promote the global harmonization of legal
  metrology procedures.
• To access the metrological guidelines for the
  elaboration of national and regional requirements
  concerning the manufacture and use of measuring
  instruments for legal metrology applications.

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• IRSA Interregional Standardization Association
• Georgia became the Full member of IRSA in 1991.
• Benefit
• Regional cooperation

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• BIPM International Bureau of Weights and
  Measures
• Georgia became the Associated member of BIPM in
  2008.
• Benefit
• To provide the basis for a single, coherent
  system of measurements throughout the world,
  traceable to the International System of Units
• To coordination through international comparisons
  of national measurement standards

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• Project Support to Implementation of Art. 51
  (Quality Management System)
• This project is funded by the European Union
  TACIS Programme
• from 21st November 2008 to 24th February 2011
• Benefit
• The assistance to strengthen national
  standardisation authorities and the Technical
  Barriers to Trade Enquiry points to meet the
  current needs of Georgian Economic Operators and
  the requirements of the WTO TBT agreement
• To Provide the Georgian National Metrology
  Institute of measurement in priority fields and
  gradually achieves mutual recognition of
  measurement standards and calibrations

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• GEOSTM and PTB Cooperation
• Project Support of quality infrastructure in
  Georgia with particular consideration of
  metrology
• The project Is funded (11/2007-08/2012) the
  German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation
  and Development and implemented PTB (The
  national metrology institute of Germany)

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• Ongoing projects
• The regional project Strengthening the Quality
  Infrastructure in the South Caucasian countries
  Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia with emphasis on
  Food Testing (2011-2014) funded the German
  Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and
  Development and implemented PTB (The national
  metrology institute of Germany)
• TWINING PROJECT ,,Strengthening Metrology and
  Standardization Infrastructure according to the
  best practice of EU member-states

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Mrs. Ekaterine LabadzeHead of International
Relations Office E-mail e.labadze_at_geostm.ge,
Labadze_at_yahoo.comMob 995 599 72 54
71www.geostm.ge

• LEPL Georgian National Agency for Standards,
  Technical Regulations and Metrology

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• LEPL Georgian National Agency for Standards,
  Technical Regulations and Metrology

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