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24th Asia-Pacific Legal Metrology

Forum and Working Group Meetings

Minutes

25-27 October 2017

Held at Apsara Angkor Resort and Conference Hotel,

Siem Reap, Cambodia

24th Asia-Pacific

Legal Metrology

Forum and Working

Group Meetings

Hosted by the National Metrology Centre, Ministry of Industry

and Handicraft, Cambodia, the 24th APLMF and Working Group

Meetings were held from 25 October through 27 October 2017

at the Apsara Angkor Resort and Conference Hotel, Siem Reap,

Cambodia.

The meetings were attended by delegates from full member

economies and representatives of the international and

regional organisations.

25-27 October 2017

Contents

1 Participants 6

Honoured Guests / Observers 11

Corresponding Members 11

2 Welcome 12

3 Official Photograph 15

4 Introductions 15

5 Working Group Transition 16

Presentation of Discussion Paper – Stephen O’BRIEN ..........................................................................16

Discussion/Comment............................................................................................................................16

6 MEDEA Update 18

Dr Sabine GREINER, MEDEA Coordinator, PTB .....................................................................................18

7 MEDEA Training Impacts 18

8 Training Coordination Report 20

Mrs Marian HAIRE, Training Coordinator, APLMF Secretariat ..............................................................20

9 Working Group Reports 20

9.1 Prepackaged Goods 21

9.2 Medical Measurement 21

9.3 Metrological Control Systems 22

9.4 Mutual Recognition Arrangements 22

9.5 Quality Measurement of Agricultural Products (QMAP) 23

9.6 Utility Meters 25

10 Welcome Dinner 25

11 APLMF – Meeting - Welcome Addresses 26

11.1 APLMF President 26

11.2 Host and Co-Chair 27

12 APLMF Business 28

Mr Stephen O’BRIEN – President ..........................................................................................................28

12.1 23rd APLMF Minutes 28

12.2 2017 Secretariat Report 29

12.3 Strategic Plan 29

12.4 Launch of National Metrological Infrastructure Joint Guide 1 29

13 Working Group – Action Plans 2018 30

13.1 All Working Group Chairs ...........................................................................................................30

13.2 Training Coordination .................................................................................................................30

13.3 Goods Packed by Measure .........................................................................................................30

13.4 Medical Measurements ..............................................................................................................31

13.5 Metrological Control Systems ....................................................................................................31

13.6 Mutual Recognition Arrangements ............................................................................................32

13.7 Quality Measurement of Agricultural Products ..........................................................................32

13.8 Utility Measures .........................................................................................................................32

14 Poster Sessions 33

14.1 Australia 33

14.2 Cambodia 34

14.3 Canada 34

14.4 PR China 34

14.5 Indonesia 35

14.6 Japan 35

14.7 Republic of Korea 36

14.8 Malaysia 36

14.9 New Zealand 37

14.10 Papua New Guinea 37

14.11 Philippines 38

14.12 Singapore 38

14.13 Chinese Taipei 38

14.14 Thailand 38

14.15 United States of America 39

14.16 Vietnam 39

15 Specialist Body Reports 40

15.1 APMP - Asia-Pacific Metrology Programme 40

15.2 BIML – Review of CIML 52nd Meeting, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia 40

15.3 PTB – Overview of Activities 41

15.3.1 International Cooperation in Asia ...............................................................................................41

15.3.2 APLMF Guide 1 launch ................................................................................................................41

15.4 APEC SRB Activities 42

16 OIML System 42

16.1 Expected Benefits of the new OIML – Certification System 42

16.2 Review of OIML Resolutions 44

16.3 Certification System for Pre-packages OIMLR87 46

17 Farewell Dinner 46

18 24th Asia-Pacific Legal Metrology Forum Meeting - Full Member Only Session 47

18.1 Roll Call 47

18.2 Secretariat Interim Financial Report – Jan – Oct 2017 47

18.3 Online Voting - discussion 47

18.4 Membership Fees – discussion paper 47

18.5 Membership Status - changes 47

18.6 Membership Criteria – discussion paper 47

18.7 Strategic Plan 47

18.8 Working Group Transition – discussion paper 47

18.9 Quality Measurement of Agricultural Products WG Appointments 47

18.10 Extension of Presidency/Secretariat 2018-2019 47

18.11 2018 Work Programme - Secretariat 47

18.12 2018 Draft High Level Budget 47

18.13 2017 APLMF Service Awards 47

18.14 Review draft Procedures for Approval of Guide and Administrative Documents47

19 Asia-Pacific Legal Metrology Forum cont..d 47

19.1 Asia Pacific Metrology Portal - Raising Awareness of Metrology (MEDEA APMP-APLMF

Joint Project 2) 47

19.2 Future meetings 48

19.3 Closing remarks by Co-Chair 49

19.4 Closing remarks by President 49

19.5 Angkor Wat Campus Tour 50

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1 Participants

HOSTS – NMC Cambodia

Ms PEOU Vorleaks

National Metrology Centre (NMC) President Co-Chair 24th APLMF

H.E. Mr UCH Bora

Ministry of Industry and Handicraft, Cambodia Under Secretary of State

Secretariat

Mr Stephen O'BRIEN

APLMF Secretariat President

Mrs Marian HAIRE

APLMF Secretariat Training Coordinator

Ms Alli SMITH

APLMF Secretariat Senior Administrator

Mr Kim TRUSCOTT

APLMF Secretariat


Full Member Economies

Australia

Mr Bill LOIZIDES

National Measurement Institute Australia (NMIA) General Manager, Legal Metrology Policy

Cambodia

Mr KHLAUT Ousa

National Metrology Centre (NMC) Director of Legal Metrology Department

Cambodia

Mr KONG Saingheng

National Metrology Centre (NMC Vice President

Cambodia

Mr NGI Polineavith

National Metrology Centre (NMC) Director of Industrial Metrology Department

Canada

Mr Alan JOHNSTON

Measurement Canada APLMF Executive Committee Chair - WG Utility Measures President

PR China

Mr CHEN Xuewei

General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) Deputy Director

PR China

Mr GUO Su

General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) Chair – WG Metrological Control Systems

PR China

Mr HAN Jianping

General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) Deputy Director General

PR China

Mr JI Wei

General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) Deputy Director

PR China

Mr XIE Jun

General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) Director General


Indonesia

Mrs Yenni MARLIN

Development Center of Metrological Resources Head of Subdivision for Metrological Technology Development

Indonesia

Mr Hari PRAWOKO

Development Center of Metrological Resources Head of Development Centre of Metrological Resources APLMF Executive Committee

Japan

Ms Yuka OKADA

Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Metrology Policy Office, Industrial Science and Technology, Policy and Environment Bureau

Japan

Dr Toshiyuki TAKATSUJI

National Metrology Institute of Japan (NMIJ), AIST Director, Research Institute for Engineering Measurement National APMP President

Japan

Dr Tsuyoshi MATSUMOTO

National Metrology Institute of Japan (NMIJ), AIST Associate Manager, International Cooperation Office Chair – WG Quality Measurement of Agricultural Products

Japan

Mr Hajime NEMOTO

National Metrology Institute of Japan, (NMIJ) AIST Principal Research Manager, Research Institute for Engineering Measurement,

Republic of Korea

Mr Chunkang CHO

Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) Researcher

Republic of Korea

Mr Seongboo JEONG

Korea Testing Certification (KTC) Researcher

Republic of Korea

Ms EunJung KIM

Korea Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) Coordinator


Republic of Korea

Mr Geon Young PARK

Korea Association of Standards and Testing Organisations (KASTO) Assistant Manager

Malaysia

Mr Mohd Roslan MAHAYUDIN

Ministry of Domestic Trade, Co-operative and Consumerisme (MDTCC) Enforcement Director APLMF Executive Committee

Malaysia

Dr Abdul Rahman MOHAMED

National Metrology Institute of Malaysia (NMIM) Deputy Director

Malaysia

Mr Mohn Suffian MOHD ABASS

Ministry of Domestic Trade, Co-operative and Consumerisme (MDTCC) Enforcement Director

New Zealand

Mr Phil SORRELL

Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) Team Leader, Compliance and Inspection Chair – Goods Packed by Measure

Papua New Guinea

Mr Joe PANGA

National Institute of Standards and Industrial Technology (NISIT) Head of Metrology Division

Philippines

Mr Michael Jason SOLIS

Industrial Technology Development Institute (ITDI) Supervising Science Research Specialist

Singapore

Mr Lim Yong SENG

SPRING Singapore Manager, Consumer Protection Weights and Measures

Singapore

Ms Faith TAN

SPRING Singapore Consumer Protection Weights and Measures

Chinese Taipei

Mrs Hui-Ling TING

Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection (BSMI) Technical Specialist

Chinese Taipei

Dr Cheng-Tsair YANG

Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) /CMS Ph.D. Deputy Division Director


Chinese Taipei

Mr. Jin-Hai YANG

Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection (BSMI) Technical Specialist Representing Chair – WG Medical Measurements

Thailand

Dr Tapphinyo KOATNON

Bureau of Weights and Measure Director of Fuel Dispensers Section

Thailand

Ms Jintana PENGYAI

Bureau of Weights and Measures Director Of Agricultural Products Measurement Standards Section

Thailand

Ms Satanee PURUPPA

Bureau of Weights and Measures Metrologist

Thailand

Mr Surachai SUNGZIKAW

Bureau of Weights and Measures Director of Standards and Development of Weighing Instruments Section

United States of America

Dr Chuck EHRLICH

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Program Leader, International Legal Metrology

United States of America

Mr Ralph RICHTER

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Senior Engineer

Vietnam

Mr GIAU Tran Quy

Directorate for Standards Metrology and Quality (STAMEQ) Director Of Metrology


3

Honoured Guests / Observers

Honorary Member

Mr John BIRCH

APLMF President 1994-2001 Consultant

PR China

Mr PU Changcheng

General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) APLMF President 2007-2015 Honorary Member APLMF Executive Committee

Guest

Mr Stephen PATORAY

BIML Director Director

Guest

Dr Sabine GREINER

Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) MEDEA Project Coordinator

Guest

Mr Abd Rashid ZAINAL ABIDIN

MEDEA/APMP Coordinator

Guest Speaker

Dr Hans-Peter VATERLAUS

Federal Institute of Metrology METAS, Metrological Supervision, Prepackages

Observer Bhutan

Mr Tenzin DORJI

Bhutan Standards Bureau (BSB), Chief Engineer

Corresponding Members

Russia Mr Sergey KOMISSAROV

VNIIMS Head of International Department


2 Welcome

8am – 8pm, Wednesday, 25 October 2017

Mr Stephen O’Brien, President welcomed the forum members

Mr Stephen O’Brien welcomed His Excellency Mr UCH Bora, economy representatives and honoured guests to the

opening session of the 24th Asia-Pacific Legal Metrology Forum meetings in the beautiful city of Siem Reap,

Cambodia.

He noted we are pleased today to have His Excellency Mr Uch Bora with us for a short time to mark the importance

of the 24th APLMF and Working Group Meetings today and our forum meetings this week. His Excellency’s schedule

does not allow him to attend the opening of our forum meeting tomorrow, but we are very honoured as he is able to

be with us today.

Mr O’BRIEN respectfully called up His Excellency Mr UCH Bora, Under Secretary of State Ministry of Industry and

Handicraft Cambodia and the High Representative of His Excellency Dr Cham Prasidh, the Senior Minister of the

Ministry of Industry and Handicraft to give his opening address.

Official Welcome Address from Host

His Excellency Mr UCH Bora, Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Industry and Handicraft,

Cambodia

His Excellency Mr UCH Bora, Under Secretary of State, Ministry

of Industry and Handicraft addressed the Forum. He was greatly

pleased and honoured, on behalf of H.E. Dr Cham Prasidh, Senior

Minister, Ministry of Industry and Handicraft, to preside over the

official opening of the 24th Asia-Pacific Legal Metrology Forum

and Working Group Meetings held from 25 to 27 October 2017

in Siem Reap Province, Cambodia. He warmly welcomed

National and International Distinguished Delegates, participating

in this significant event. He acknowledged all who had travelled

quite a distance to be here. He acknowledged and appreciated

the collaboration between National Metrology Center (NMC) of Cambodia and APLMF for the excellent arrangement

of this event. He believed that this meeting would provide great opportunities for relevant legal metrology

authorities to discuss and share ideas with concrete outcomes.

He wished to underline that metrology plays a fundamental role in our life, particularly legal metrology which

provides laws and regulations for the control of measurements and measuring instruments. Legal metrology also

provides protection of public safety, the environment, consumers, and traders and it is critical to fair trade.

Obviously, the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft of the Kingdom of Cambodia has put effort into promoting the

Legal Metrology sector and considers it as one of its most important priorities in order to provide prevention of

consumer loss through short measure both locally and internationally.


He shared the Cambodian context with respect to development. In the past few decades, Cambodia has gone

through a remarkable transformation in politics, security, and socio-economic aspects. Cambodia has become the

island of peace and a popular tourist destinations in South East Asia for both regional and international tourists.

From an economic aspect, Cambodia has become a lower middle-income country according to the World Bank

Group and it is considered as a new tiger cub in Asia, with robust economic growth averaging around 7.7% in the

past 2 decades. This sustained high economic growth has been benefitted from long term vision and high

perspectives under the leadership of Cambodia’s Prime Minister, Samdach Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen.

Importantly, Cambodia expects to maintain the present economic growth with a rate of 7% per year, so that the

economy can be advanced by 2030 into one with higher-middle income. At the same time, the Royal Government of

Cambodia has a road map and makes a lot of efforts to guarantee that the country is in peace as it is the crucial

precondition of development. The economy also has adopted and is actively implementing “Industrial Development

Policy 2015-2025” which is a “New Growth Strategy” for building production base with higher value added and is

integrated with regional and global value chain. Indeed, foreign direct investment (FDI) attraction is the critical point

of this policy. The FDI attraction is attaching priorities on a number of sectors including (1) new manufacturing

industries for opening the market entrance with higher value added, creativity and high competitiveness, (2) Small

and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), (3) supporting industry for agriculture, tourism, and textile, (4) industries serving

regional production chain which is strategically characterized as information technology/telecommunication, energy,

heavy industries, cultural handicraft, traditional history and green technology. Therefore, a sound legal metrology

system held in place is a crucial social infrastructure for Cambodia’s Industrial Development Policy

H.E. Mr UCH Bora was confident that the important topics will be addressed and discussed productively during the

meeting, which include: (1) annual reports from the APLMF Working Groups, (2) planned APLMF future activities, (3)

the new OIML Certificate System, (4) the Metrology – Enabling Developing Economies in Asia (MEDEA) project, and

(5) cooperation among APLMF, international and regional metrology organizations.

At the end of the address, Mr UCH Bora hoped each economy would get more benefits from these meetings for

development of their legal metrology and he encouraged every participant to join partnership with each other for

designing a better future in the legal metrology community.

On behalf of Ministry of Industry and Handicraft, he thanked all for their kind cooperation and valuable participation

in this event. He declared that the meeting was opened and wished all participants would have a worthwhile time

with solid outcomes in exchanging valuable ideas and prolific discussions on the matters of common interests. He

also wished all delegates and guests would have a wonderful time in Siem Reap Province and wished their good

health, happiness and great success.

Mr Stephen O’BRIEN, President APLMF, on behalf of the APLMF, thanked His Excellency for his interesting and

informative welcome address and for the insights he had given to us on initiatives underway in Cambodia. He

thanked again for the attendance of His Excellency, marking the importance of these 24th APLMF meetings and the

work we do during the meetings. On behalf of APLMF, he also passed on our appreciation to the Cambodian Ministry

of Industry and Handicraft and to the National Metrology Centre including Department of Legal Metrology for their

willingness to host these important regional meetings. He noted the hard work and dedication by the host which

ensured we had the foundations in place to support these meeting successfully. He also congratulated the Ministry

of Industry and Handicraft and the Cambodian Government for their dedicated commitment to improving the

framework of metrology in Cambodia. In practice, a significant investment has been made in improving

measurement accuracy and metrology systems in Cambodia through active participation in training presented

through both APLMF and the project, Metrology Enabling Developing Economies in Asia (MEDEA) project.

He noted Siem Reap is the gateway to the ruins of Angkor and this city was the seat of the great Khmer Kingdom

during 9-15th Centuries. The prosperity of the great kingdom relied on effective trade supported with social

infrastructure that underpinned essential services and protection of its citizens. These requirements for prosperity

are still relevant today. The work of these 24th APLMF meetings were critical for maintaining and improving the


prosperity of the people within the economies with emerging metrology systems, such as Cambodia and also for

economies in the wider region in Asia Pacific. APLMF works to harmonise technical standards and to reduce

technical barriers to trade, and also focuses on improving confidence in the accuracy of measurement. It is only

through accurate measurement that the governments and legal metrology systems in our region are able to support

and facilitate trade, product safety and environmental protection.

He also noted that he felt very privileged to be here and to experience the warm welcome and hospitality for which

the Cambodians are renowned. He again thanked His Excellency for opening the meeting and he mentioned that we

looked forward to the welcome dinner to be hosted in this evening. A presentation of a gift was made, followed by

the official group photograph.

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3 Official Photograph

4 Introductions

On Wednesday 25th, Mr Stephen O’Brien welcomed all to the 24th APLMF Working Group Meeting. He noted the

participants would have a full agenda for a busy and productive day. .

He introduced his Co-Chair for this event, Ms PEOU Vorleaks, from National Metrology Centre, Cambodia. He

thanked the team from Cambodia, who were doing a great job behind the scenes and getting things organised. He

noted it was great to have Stephen PATORARY, Directory, Bureau of Legal Metrology (BIML) in the International

Organisation of Legal Metrology (OIML). He acknowledged Dr Toshiyuki TAKATSUJI, Chairman, Asia Pacific Metrology

Programme. He noted the importance of the relationship between APLMF and APMP. He welcomed Dr Sabine

GREINER, MEDEA Project Coordinator of PTB, Mr Abd Rashid ZAINAL ABINDIN (APMP coordinator), one of the co-

authors of our Joint Guide 1, which we were launching in these meetings. He also welcomed Dr Hans-Peter

VATERLAUS, Federal Institute of Metrology (METAS), Switzerland who would be making a presentation, sharing

some of insights on metrological supervision. He thanked Mr John BIRCH for his attendance and noted the value of

his ongoing support of APLMF as an Honorary Member. Finally he welcomed observing delegate, representing

Bhutan Standards Bureau, Mr Tenzin DORJI

Stephen noted we have the right people, right venue and the right support in place for an interesting and productive

meeting. He recognised that many attending today have travelled great distances and thanked all participants and

encouraged active participation in the meetings.

He mentioned we would be looking at how to transform the operation of our working groups, provide an update on

the MEDEA project, which is a key part of our APLMF strategy, through an interactive session to identify some of the

successful impacts of MEDEA 1 and seek views on what MEDEA 2 should deliver in the future. The participants were

requested to review the work of our Training Coordinator and Working Groups.

He noted we had a few new economy representatives and each delegate was asked to introduce themselves, their

Economy and the agency they work for.


5 Working Group Transition

Presentation of Discussion Paper – Stephen O’BRIEN

Download the Working Group Transition discussion paper and Presentation

Mr Stephen O’BRIEN introduced this session by noting the Working Group Transition Discussion Paper which sets out

how the transition and transformation of the working groups. The working groups are the engine room where much

of the work of APLMF is undertaken, so it is important to keep this functioning effectively. The working groups are

responsible for the practical implementation of APLMF’s strategic plan. They need to be effective and efficient to

make the most of our limited resources. Working Groups are a tool we can use for monitoring, build and sharing the

knowledge and experience of the people on the working groups. Working Groups must be able to respond to

emerging issues or members’ needs in a timely manner. After the discussion the participants agreed on:

WG actions completed since 23rd Meeting

Working Group on Training Coordination was disestablished and Training Coordinators’ Role was established

as part of Secretariat.

Mrs Marian HAIRE was appointed as the inaugural training coordinator for term of 3 years.

Noted that appointments will always be made from within membership and the individual is attached to the

Secretariat.

WG transition actions for 2018

Reviewing current Working Groups membership and structures;

Focusing on a time bound work Programme of specific projects;

Disestablishing any Working Group that has achieved its goals or completed its work Programme;

Identifying an individual to be a Point of Contact or Subject Matter Expert for the subject area;

Establishing new Guidelines and Operating procedures; and

Conducting biannual Needs Assessment.

Discussion/Comment

Comment: Australia Mr Bill LOIZIDES noted considerable work has been done in a number of areas and acknowledged

the work that has been done since New Zealand took over the presidency. In regards to the working groups, he

recommended that at the new OIML B 6 document approved at the last OIML meeting in Columbia could be utilised

and proposed there may be an alignment between this document and the APLMF working group functions. They are

similar in the way of the outcomes, timings and terms of reference of the projects in an organisation. So, the

contents of B 6 are utilised and they would add value to the processes and visions of APLMF by interlinking with OIML

at a greater level.

Response: President thanked Australia for that suggestion, which will be considered.

Comment: USA Dr Chuck EHRLICH noted he was fully supportive of this plan and thanked the Secretariat for its

efforts. As Chair of one of the working groups for 15 years, this was a good direction and he looked forward to the

discussion and implementation of this proposal.

Response: President thanked USA and noted that we do not want to lose that depth of knowledge and experience

within APLMF, and should provide for subject matter experts even if some working groups are disestablished.

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Comment: USA Mr Ralph RICHTER expended on what Australia has suggested. He asked if Australia was suggesting

that we greatly increase our number of subject matter experts and make them more aligned e.g. with active project

groups in OIML? He saw that these current working groups in APLMF were very broad, e.g. Utility Meters – Could

APLMF have a specific expert on water meters, and electricity meters, who would then be a liaison to those projects

in OIML?

Response: Australia Mr Bill LOIZIDES noted he was making a recommendation more in terms of the process. For

example, the convenor – it was mentioned in B 6 having set clear goals and outcomes, so with the working groups,

the Transition Discussion recommended that the terms of reference be reviewed; there are similarities in terms of the

processes. So he was looking more at the B 6 document to the working groups in terms of the number of working

groups to be the same as OIML.

Response: President thanked Australia for that clarification. He noted that we should see what elements of the OIML

B 6 would work for us not to reinvent the wheel and if appropriate adopt it. Some of the processes need more detail

because the end result is a document that is expected to be adopted by member economies, as a consensus

document or potentially a guidance. He noted that we do need to align what we are doing as closely as we can with

OIML. At the Emerging Metrology Systems (CEEMS) meeting in OIML – they are looking to identify subject matter on

the experts to be pooled on a database that can be used for training etc. So it might be a subject matter if experts

from APLMF would also be included in the database.

Comment: Honorary Member Mr John BIRCH commented on working group structure, point 1, section f of the

discussion paper. This document says they must be aligned to APEC goals and work Programme but he thought the

wording was a bit strict. APLMF, whilst a member recognised by APEC as a Special Regional Body, was not set up as

an APEC organisation. It was set up as an Asia-Pacific Legal Metrology Forum which would certainly support the APEC

agenda but not necessarily go beyond the APEC agenda. He thought that it is unnecessary and restrictive to tie

ourselves to APEC goals and work Programmes. He suggested it might possibly be re-worded to: ‘take account of

APEC Goals and Work Programmes’. He thought there were APLMF activities that were probably not aligned to APEC

goals. APEC is very much a trade organisation.

Response: President thanked Mr BIRCH for his comment and agreed it was a valid point.

Comment: Honorary Member Mr John BIRCH noted APLMF didn’t see itself as duplicating the work of OIML, rather

complementing it. In particular, we see OIML preparing the international recommendations and the main role of the

APMLF is in the implementation of those recommendations. The training Programmes have been a very important

part of that implementation. We need to be clear on that. We are not essentially drawing up international

recommendations except a particular area which is not dealt with OIML. One field we spent some time on was grain

moisture measurements, but generally, we didn’t get involved in the development of international recommendations

or regional recommendations. He thought we need to take that into account and as it has been mentioned, our

current working group structure is over 20 years old. This structure arose from a study which was done by Knut

BIRKELAND back in 1997 on the technical infrastructure needs of the member economies in the Region.

Comment: USA Mr Ralph RICHTER agreed with Mr BIRCH that we shouldn’t be in the business of developing

international recommendations but especially with the CEEMS Programme in OIML, we should definitely take into

consideration all of the member economies’ interests when we are developing OIML recommendations. In many

cases, the smaller countries are not active members of the OIML project groups. In such a case, the regional

organisations can definitely have some kind of input so that their needs are being addressed when the international

recommendations are being developed. A liaison type person in OIML can often definitely make sure the needs and

interests of the APLMF economies to be represented in the project groups.


6 MEDEA Update

Dr Sabine GREINER, MEDEA Coordinator, PTB

Dr Greiner reported:

Statistics on Activities in 2017;

Report on Evaluation (conducted by Lutz Neumann), and

Proposal for MEDEA 2.0.

Download the Full presentation

Mr Stephen O’BRIEN thanked Dr GREINER and acknowledged the work being done by PTB and APLMF appreciates the sponsorship from the German Government the management and saw it as a very useful and effective project and looked forward to being involved and supporting MEDEA 2.

7 MEDEA Training Impacts

This was an interactive session, with Economies divided into 4 groups, with a facilitator. The purpose of the session was to identify and record the key impacts of MEDEA training over the past 3years and to provide information for future direction of training. Mrs Marian HAIRE, APLMF Training Coordinator introduced this session was one of several activities aimed at gathering information to determine future training activities. In addition we will be surveying Directors, examining feedback from the Joint APLMF/APMP workshop held in Malacca in May and the Metrological Benefits Survey. She noted that we will not be repeating the Metrological Capacity Survey for the next project. It is recognised that it is big impost to ask you to complete that survey every year and have completed it several times. We may do it again at the end of the 3 year MEDEA 2 project. Previously the survey was eligible to obtain funds for training, so we will be looking at some different strategies for ensuring that people are adhering to their action plans and giving us feedback. All the information being gathered will be put in the mix when the MEDEA Coordination Committee meets in 2018 to consider what training Programmes will be implemented under MEDEA 2. She noted that there are limits, but we will try to make sure we achieve as much as we can. Economies had been given the following focus questions several weeks prior to this meeting to allow discussion with colleagues so they could fully represent their Economy’s views in the session.

1. What are your economy’s two key priorities for 2018-2022 with respect to the development of your metrology infrastructure?

2. List two key impacts or changes your economy has made as a result of attendance at MEDEA workshops over the last 4 years?

3. List any specific measuring instruments or areas of your metrology system where your economy needs more training?

4. How can your economy best contribute to the success of the MEDEA project? 5. What would your economy want MEDEA to deliver over the next 3 years?

Firstly, participants were asked to work in their economy to answer the 5 questions on their worksheets.

They were then asked to go to their allocated board and attach their worksheets. Each group selected a scribe who

would record the discussion and report back on behalf of their group. Each group worked through their answers to

each of the five questions and looked for synergies in the responses. These were summarised and reported back to

the whole meeting.



Mrs HAIRE wound up the session, thanking all for their active participation in this session. The key threads across the

groups were identified as:

training on legislation and how to implement the best legislation for any economy;

emerging technologies are a challenge for both the developed and developing economies e.g. electric cars,

climate change technologies;

MEDEA training had provided participants with the ability to go back to their economies and have the

confidence to speak to other departments e.g. Philippines have developed their own test procedures and they

are interested in creating a metrology training centre. This is the multiplying effect that we the training.

Malaysia and Thailand have done similar things;

developed economies are offering to supply trainers. When MEDEA funds the trainers airfare and

accommodation, the economy’s contribution is only the time spared for the trainers;

raising awareness about metrology both within government and the community. We do have a project in mind,

where we are going to try and combine management skills with helping people to communicate better and

raise awareness within their economy. MEDEA would be two year project and those involved would have to

make a significant commitment, but it would be a sound way to increase your management skills.

The participants agreed that MEDEA CC will work with the suggestions from this session, along with the various

other sources of information to develop a sound Programme for MEDEA 2.

Download the results of the MEDEA Training Impacts workshop session

Comment: OIML Mr Stephen PATORAY noted he was fortunate to attend the Joint APLMF/APMP workshop held in

Malacca in May which he considered was one of the most impressive meetings he has ever attended because the

experts had the ability for scientific and legal metrology to meet in the same room, the same problems and is a

significant achievement from the MEDEA Programme. MEDEA Programme has also been able to work with OIML in

several different training sessions including the OPTC OIML Pilot Training Center) in PR China Programme in some of

those training session. Referring back to Mr BIRCH’s comments earlier, there is an expert report by Knut BIRKELAND,

20 years old, but very relevant today and he recommended that people take the time to read this on the OIML

website – ‘Legal Metrology at the Dawn of the 21st Century’.

The other item Mr PATORAY mentioned was quality infrastructure in most cases, as a national quality infrastructure,

he challenged the regions to international quality infrastructure. How are we going to coordinate global trade quality

infrastructure that individual economies create on their own. There should be an international quality infrastructure

and economies should start thinking about that now.

Mr PATORAY also noted OIML has an education website under funding from the EU and ACP (Africa Caribbean and

Pacific). Unfortunately the Pacific was not really involved in any of the work of ACP, but the initial pieces of this

education website are available and we are looking for additional information. OIML is talking with New Zealand

about the e-learning they have created using Moodle, so with this synergy, the ability for OIML to host training that

has been created, is available. There is also a project that is open to revise the D1. Many of the participants are

talking about the structure within the economies as Marian has noted. He challenged ‘every economy has an

emerging metrology system today’ because none of us as the capability to understand the new software in every

device we have. That is part of what is in your metrology system. All needs to be reviewed and D 1 is part of quality

infrastructure. He encouraged all, as part of the CEEMS Advisory Group and he invited delegates to talk to him over

the course of the meeting. The revision of D 1, which will be anticipated a fast approach to this, but it must follow the

rules in B6 (3 year time frame). D 1 is a big part of what has been described to get better metrology systems within

the member economies.


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8 Training Coordination Report

Mrs Marian HAIRE, Training Coordinator, APLMF Secretariat

Key Activities 2016/17

Key Features of this year’s work

Joint APLMF/APMP workshop Modernising National Metrology Infrastructures and evaluation of MEDEA 1

Analysis of Survey Results – NAWI course conducted in 2016

Future Focus

o MEDEA 1 continues to April 2018

o MEDEA 2 – funding training for a further 3 years

o Feedback from economies will determine priorities for MEDEA 2 training courses

Outline of 2018 courses to be confirmed

o Verification of NAWI including weighbridges

o Water meters

o Verification of rice moisture meters

o Reference Standards

Future focus – emerging issues

OIML Regional Training Centre

Download Full Report and Presentation

Question: Philippines Mr Michael SOLIS asked whether the training planned for MEDEA 2 are the same as those

delivered under MEDEA 1 e.g Verification of NAWI

Response: Training Coordinator Mrs Marian HAIRE advised it would be a repeat. She noted that when we ran it the

first time, Suliana from Malaysia demonstrated a great degree of proficiency and we want to give her an opportunity

to deliver the course. She will do this with another young man from the Ministry and the Australian trainer will be

there observing and supporting. This has been my dream throughout this Programme that we move from delivery by

developed economies to delivery by the developing economies and she noted Philippines also have some expertise as

well. This makes you independent and you can assist the lesser developed economies in the Region.

Comment: Honorary Member Mr John BIRCH noted his interest in the list of topics that the APMP had developed. He

thought that APLMF could similarly develop another list. Two issues that he thinks Legal Metrology can make a

significant contribution to, are probably the biggest issues in the world at present. One is air pollution (where we

have a number of international recommendations on quality of air). OIML ran a very good conference about 20 years

ago on clean air measurement and very good papers were published in the OIML bulletin. Unfortunately it wasn’t

continued, but air pollution is now the biggest cause of death in the world according to a report issued in October

2017. The other area is road fatalities, a major issue in developing economies Also, Legal Metrology has a significant

contribution in terms of radar speed devices and truck measurements are two issues we should be considering

because they economic and social impacts and Legal Metrology is central to both of them.

Comment: Malaysia are hosting a training course on software validation 27 November – 1 December 2017, with a

trainer from PTB (not within the MEDEA Programme). Focus will be on software in relation to weighbridges.

9 Working Group Reports



9.1 Prepackaged Goods

Mr Phil SORRELL

Working Group Membership update

Guides for Specific Product Types

Training Material

OIML Technical Committee 6 (TC6)

Guide for Defining the System Requirements for a Certification System for Prepackages

Future Focus – Recommendations

o Increase capability, harmonise systems and reducing technical barriers

o Explore the use of a recognised, voluntary, common quantity ‘Mark’

o OIML Pilot Training Centre (OPTC) • Prepackaged goods inspection training 2018

o Developing online training resources

Future Focus – Emerging issues

o Electronic Cigarettes


Question: USA Mr Ralph RICHTER noted electronic cigarettes hasn’t much attention in the weights and measures

community in the US. What exactly are the issues – does it deal with how they are packaged and how they are sold?

Response: WG Chair Mr Phil SORRELL advised it is to do with quantity of product, marking issues and other health

issues, and this is why other agencies should be involved. Potentially there are drugs being sold in these cigarettes

and the quantity of the actual nicotine is not clear.

9.2 Medical Measurement

Mrs Hui-Ling TING on behalf of WG Chair Mr Chung-Lin WANG

Review of previous Investigations

o 2015 – The Introduction of Adverse Events Report of Medical Devices

o 2016 – Survey on Medical Devices Adverse Event Report

2017 Survey Results – Survey on Legal Measures Mechanism on Medical Devices

2018 Work Plan – Investigate Regulatory System and Recognised Standards for the non-invasive automated

sphygmomanometer

Download Presentation – including results of the Survey on Medical Instruments

Comment: OIML Mr Stephen PATORAY noted medical devices is a very interesting topic in relation to OIML. There are

several OIML recommendations for medical instruments, but in many cases they are not actually used as mentioned

in the WG report. This is one of the things that has been brought to the attention of OIML’s Immediate Past President

Mr Peter MASON and one of his last acts as President was to initiate an effort for myself and Dr Roman SCHWARTZ,

the new President to contact the six or so different international agencies that are involved in medical devices. A

letter will be going out to all of them asking for information and discussion on how we can coordinate the

international recommendations for these various entities across the world. Also Portugal has been very interested in

medical devices and its CIML members and the support staff will be conducting a survey for all of OIML members to

determine what the current conditions are. So the information presented by this WG will be very useful for

understanding where we are in medical measurement. It is a very frustrating situation for OIML because there has




been a lot of work to create recommendations but in many cases, they are not being used almost anywhere. We need

to determine the field that we should not be involved in because others do it better or create a better product used

around the world. He thanked the WG for their input and he would be interested in having a copy of the survey report

for Portugal.

Comment: President Mr Stephen O’BRIEN noted it was a very interesting presentation and highlighted the complexity

around the health agencies and the number of NMI’s which were actually controlling the medical measurements. He

was interested to know if any research had been done on where a health authority was controlling the metrology and

whether there was any correlation with the number of adverse events?

Response: WG Mr Jin-Hai YANG advised as an example, in Chinese Taipei, their Health Department still controls all

the medical devices. We have communicated with the Health Authority and we found there was still a frustration

around this.

Comment: President Mr Stephen O’BRIEN noted he understood that as there was a similar situation in New Zealand

where medical instruments are controlled by the Ministry of Health with very little input from the metrology world.

9.3 Metrological Control Systems

Mr GOU Su

Working Group – current membership

New Guide Document – Rice Moisture and Fuel Dispensers

Joint Guide 1

MEDEA – Verification of Weighbridges

Seminar on OIML Certification System

Recommendations

o Needs on training and guidance

o coordinate OIML/APLMF training on pre-packaged goods

Emerging Issues

o New proposed topic on OIML- Certificated System

o Publicity of OIML D1 and joint APLMF-APMP guide 1: National Metrological Infrastructure


Comment: President Mr Stephen O’BRIEN noted he is looking forward to closer cooperation between APLMF and the

OIML Pilot Training Center (OPTC) and there is plenty of opportunity for us.

9.4 Mutual Recognition Arrangements

Dr Charles EHRLICH

Dr EHRLICH noted his intention was to give a report on the OIML Certification System (OIML-CS) as he has in

previous years about the and the basic system the function of the working group has been to keep the APLMF

member economies up to date on this. With the current discussions around the working group transition, he

envisaged the MRA working group being disestablished and appoint experts. He suggested he and Mr Bill LOIZIDES

would be willing to serve in that role. Mr LOIZIDES is now the Deputy Chair of the Management Committee (MC) for

the OIML-CS and Dr EHRLICH is a member of the MC so they can serve in that role for the future. He suggested the



APLMF Executive Committee can decide whether they would like him to continue to provide an update report to

APLMF in the future. He provided his report with the following contents:

OIML B 18 – OIML-CS Framework

Principles of the OIML-CS

Scope of the OIML-CS

Proposed scope of the OIML-CS

Participation in the OIML-CS

Management Structure

Management Committee (MC)

Review Committee (RC)

Test Laboratories Forum (TLF)

Board of Appeal (BoA)

Document Structure

OIML B 18 – Framework

Operational Documents (ODs)

Procedural Documents (PDs)

Templates, Forms and Guidance

Implementation of the OIML-CS

OIML-CS webpages

Expected Benefits of the OIML-CS

Summary of Benefits

Download Full Report and Presentation (Introduction to the OIML-CS based on a report given by Mr Paul DIXON at

the OIML meeting in Cartegena)

Comment: President Mr Stephen O’BRIEN thanked Mr Ehrlich for his introduction to a very complex piece of work. It is

important that we get a clear understanding of the system. He noted we have time on Thursday’s agenda to get

additional information and discussion time. He also noted that having two issue on subject matter experts and

contacts in the OIML CS Management Committee of OIML-CS will be beneficial to APLMF.

9.5 Quality Measurement of Agricultural Products (QMAP)

Dr Tsuyoshi MATSUMOTO

WG membership update and history

Key Activities 2016/17

o Rice Moisture Measurement Course – Malaysia in July 2017

o Guide 6 – Rice Moisture Measurement – published in March 2017

o Contribution to OIML

o Cooperation with BIPM and APMP

Future Focus

o Taking over the chair for the next generation

o Transfer of training to a regional level

o Continuation of training courses

o Experts on this topic

Emerging Issues


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o Taking over the assets of WG

o Special remarks on grain moisture

o Synergy among the stakeholders

o Cooperation with the private sectors

o IT technologies supporting training


Comment: President Mr Stephen O’BRIEN thanked Dr MATSUMOTO for his comprehensive presentation and overview

of where the working group has come from and its future direction. On behalf of APLMF, he thanked Dr

MATSUMOTO for his service on the Working Group on QMAP and the fantastic results achieved, particularly the

Guide on Rice Moisture Measurement. This working group has been an exemplar of how APLMF should be operating,

complementing information available from OIML, and providing practical information for people in the field. The

working group can be proud of its achievements. One of the testaments to the fact that you have done a good job, is

confirmation that we have two nominations for the Working Group Chair position, which will be discussed at the

‘members only session’ on Friday. The quality of nominations for the position is a testament to the effectiveness of

the training. Both nominees have participated in the training courses many times and they are at an appropriate level

to take over the chair.

Question: Training Coordinator Mrs Marian HAIRE referred to the slide in the presentation where it talked about the

two weeks advanced course for prospective trainers. She advised she would like to add this into the training

programme for 2018, but needs to think through how we would do this. She asked where Dr MATSUMOTO suggests

that training takes place and who would be the expert that would deliver the training?

Response: Dr MATSUMOTO advised that we would need to find new trainers for the new working group in the future.

In the meantime, he can still support the new trainers for the time being. He commented that he believes we have

many competent trainers in the member economies, so they can be good trainers in the near future.

Comment: Training Coordinator Mrs Marian HAIRE noted, so they can be the new trainers, and this advanced course

aims training them. She understood that Dr MATSUMOTO wanted to train someone from Indonesia, Malaysia,

Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. She proposed that we would have a working group that has five people on it and

this could be the model for the new working groups going forward. As part of that model we can support them by

providing an advanced training. She suggested she and Dr MATSUMOTO would work together to kick this off in 2018,

once the working group has been set up. She suggested perhaps new Chair and Deputy Chair re-structure the WG and

then representatives from Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam would participate. They would be fully supported by Dr

MATSUMOTO until the new WG operates successfully.

Comment: Dr MATSUMOTO agreed with Mrs HAIRE’s proposal.

Question: USA Dr Charles EHRLICH asked Dr MATSUMOTO to elaborate on his point about what didn’t work with the

video.

Response: Dr MATSUMOTO explained that it was planned originally that instructional videos could be taken during

practical exercises and these materials could be provided as a valuable resource. He noted, however, that it was very

difficult to create a meaningful video of this kind during a normal training session. The only way to do this is to have a

staged demonstration of a practical exercise with an instructional transcript and this is not practical to organise

during a normal course.

Comment: Honorary Member Mr John BIRCH noted that moving into grain protein measurement could be a major

expansion of the activities of the working group.

Response: Dr MATSUMOTO advised that the working group didn’t think about protein measurement, primarily and

we focused on grain moisture measurement, because moisture measurement had been related to the trades in Asian



countries. In some countries protein is also an important factor. Ideally, we should expand our scope into protein

measurement as it was titled in the name of WG that could include any kinds of agricultural measurement.

Comment: Honorary Member Mr John BIRCH noted that National Conference of Weights and Measures had done a

lot of work over the last twenty years on grain protein measurement.

Comment: OIML Mr Stephen PATORAY added that he thought what Dr MATSUMOTO was referring to was OIML

Recommendation R 146 released in 2016, which was applied to the protein measuring instruments for cereal grains

and oil seeds. It was a decision to be made by the WG whether APLMF wants to be involved in it, but there is an

international recommendation on that now.

9.6 Utility Meters

Mr Alan JOHNSTON

2017 APLMF activities -Training on water meters delivered in Malaysia September 2017

2017 OIML activities - Electricity Meters, Water Meters, Work on Natural Gas Meters, Application of

Statistical Methods and software

Defining a role for Utility Meters Working Group


Comment: OIML Mr Stephen PATORAY referred to the slide for the OIML guide on surveillance on utility meters and

commented on the policy what could be a document or a guide depending on the stage of the draft. The guide on

utility meters will be published as an OIML guide and it is in the final editorial process at the moment. If you go to

OIML website you will see it is listed with a document number (G 20), but the actual document has not yet been

published. It is his understanding that the TC3/SC4 Secretariat was not enthusiastic about continuing this project, but

some other CILM members would like to see this project continue and so this guide is possibly turned back into an

OIML document if necessary.

Comment: President Mr Stephen O’BRIEN acknowledged APLMF’s appreciation for the work provided by Mr

JOHNSTON during this working group and as identified in the session earlier in the day, utility meters is an area

where we should focus in the future work.

Wrap of the Day: President Mr Stephen O’BRIEN noted we had a good discussion earlier in the day on the review of

the working group transition discussion paper and input by the participants was appreciated. During the interactive

session we highlighted the depth of knowledge within the group shared ideas and current issues and showed the

strength of the organisation. It was also interesting to have a review of the MEDEA programme with the completion

of Phase 1. The independent evaluation confirmed that we have done well and he thanked the members who have

contributed to this project as trainers, hosts and participants. Updates from working groups showed the depth of

work going on within APLMF. Currently a lot of that work is being shouldered by the WG Chairs and hopefully as we

move to a new way of working, we can share the load of this work with other members, by expanding those groups.

10 Welcome Dinner

A welcome dinner was hosted at the Apsara Angkor Hotel by the National Metrology Centre, Ministry of Industry and

Handicraft and included entertainment from the Apsara Dancers who performed traditional Cambodian dancing.



11 APLMF – Meeting - Welcome Addresses

8.30am – 8pm, Thursday, 26 October 2017

Honorary Co-Chair: Ms PEOU Vorleaks, President, National Metrology Centre, Cambodia

11.1 APLMF President

Mr Stephen O’BRIEN

Mr O’BRIEN welcomed Honoured Guests, APLMF national representatives and guests to the 24th Asia-Pacific

Metrology Forum meeting. He noted most of the participants also attended the previous day for the Working Group

Meetings.

On Thursday the meeting was formally opened with an address from His Excellency Mr UCH Bora, Under Secretary of

State, Ministry of Industry and Handicraft, Cambodia and high representative of the Senior Minister of Industry and

Handicraft. His Excellency also hosted our welcome dinner and on behalf of APLMF, the President took the

opportunity to formally thank His Excellency and our hosts from the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft for a

fantastic event last night. The food was spectacular and it was great to experience some of the Cambodian culture

through the traditional dances and music provided by the Apsara dancers.

His Excellency’s presence at these events also marked the importance of the 24th APLMF and Working Group

Meetings. On behalf of APLMF, the President noted appreciation to the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft in

Cambodia and to the National Metrology Center, the Department of Legal Metrology for their willingness to host

these APLMF meetings. The team from the Ministry worked hard to ensure we had the foundations in place to

support this meeting. They have organised a beautiful venue and made every effort to support our Secretariat. He

was impressed with the commitment of the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft and the Cambodian Government

have shown toward improving metrology in Cambodia. They have made some significant improvements in the

reliability of metrology system through their active participation in training and development delivered by APLMF as

part of the MEDEA project. It is only through accurate measurement that the legal metrology systems support

governments within our region by effectively facilitating trade, safety and environmental protection. He applauded

the efforts by the Host to date and encouraged further development of Cambodia the metrology area.

The work we are doing in the APLMF meeting in the coming days is critical to supporting this ongoing development

for Cambodia and the wider Asia-Pacific Region. In APLMF we work to harmonise standards and reduce technical

barriers to trade, also focussed on improving the accuracy of measurements and increasing confidence in

measurement results. APLMF is a regional legal metrology organisation that forms part of the global system under

the over-arching International Organisation of Legal Metrology (OIML). So it is important that we strengthen

APLMF’s links with OIML at that global level. This is of particular importance to the work being completed on the

OIML Certification System and the certification systems for pre-packages where developments in these areas will

have significant global, regional and national impacts. The President looked forward to presentations on these topics

and the opportunity for discussion with the experts who have been working on them.

In this meeting, Dr VATERLAUS from the Federal Institute of Metrology in Switzerland will share with us some of his

insights into the metrology supervision of pre-packaged goods.


As a Forum, we are also fortunate to be represented by the Management Committee of the OIML Certification

System by Charles EHRICH and Bill LOIZIDES as the Deputy Chair of that Committee. So we have the opportunity to

hear more about these initiatives.

APLMF forms part of the regional quality infrastructure also known as the Regional Standards Conformance

Infrastructure. Solutions for many issues that are faced in the Asia Pacific Region in the areas of health, safety and

the environmental protection goes beyond the ability of legal metrology authorities. So effective responses to the

emerging issues, increasingly relies on collaboration between legal metrology and scientific metrology authorities as

well as cooperation between accreditation and standards bodies. In this meeting he provided an overview of the

APEC Specialist Regional Bodies Forum and some of the work that is going on in that area, and we will also have

presentations from Mr Stephen PATORAY, Director of International Bureau of Legal Metrology (BIML) within OIML

and Dr Toshiyuki TAKATSUJI, Chairman, Asia Pacific Metrology Programme (APMP).

Those who attended Working Group meetings on the first day, also have noted the importance of the work being

completed as part of the project, Metrology Enabling Developing Economies in Asia (MEDEA). This is a significant

project for us, sponsored by the German Government and administered by PTB. In this meeting, Dr Sabine GREINER

will give us an overview of all the development work being undertaken by PTB which includes the MEDEA project. As

a new APLMF President, he was very pleased to have the benefit of the knowledge and wisdom of two past

presidents attend this meeting. He acknowledged Honorary Member Mr John BIRCH and Mr PU Changcheng both for

their attendance and ongoing support of the APLMF. He also welcomed our observing delegate from Bhutan

Standards Bureau, Mr Tenzin DORJI.

To start this meeting on a high note and also to emphasise the great work being done in the APLMF region by our

members, he mentioned two recent beneficiaries of OIML awards. At the 52nd CIML meeting in Colombia, Mr Alan

JOHNSTON received the title of ‘OIML Member of Honour’ in recognition of his work for the OIML over twenty three

years both as President of the International Committee of Legal Metrology and a member of the Presidential

Council. [The meeting applauded Mr JOHNSTON’s achievement]. He also acknowledged that Malaysia received an

OIML award for ‘Excellent Achievements in Legal Metrology in Developing Economies’. This award is of particular

note because it recognised the dedication and high level of cooperation among the three government agencies in

Malaysia that form the national metrology infrastructure. It was the cooperation of the National Metrology Institute

of Malaysia, the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Metrology Cooperation in Malaysia and the Metrology Corporation

Malaysia. This is a great example of what can be done through working together with several ministries as a whole of

government approach. The President congratulated Mr Roslan MAHAYUDIN on this achievement.

He introduced our Host, Ms PEOU Vorleaks, President, National Metrology Center within the Ministry of Industry

and Handicraft in Cambodia. He noted he was looking forward to Ms PEOU’s presentation and learning a little more

about metrology in Cambodia including her Ministry. He acknowledged Ms PEOU for co-chairing the forum meetings

with him.

11.2 Host and Co-Chair

Ms PEOU Vorleaks, President, National Metrology Centre, Cambodia

National Metrology Centre – established 2011

Structure of National Metrology Center (NMC)

International Engagement or Membership

Key Activities – public consultation and training courses

Consumer protection

Contribution of metrology to SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises)


Steps to a Global Measurement System

International Cooperation

Bilateral Cooperation

Future Plans and Challenges

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Question: President Mr Stephen O’BRIEN thanked Ms PEOU for her interesting presentation. He noted his interest in

the work Cambodia is doing with small medium enterprises; it looks like you are taking on the challenge of trying to

support small businesses in your economy and it is something we are very interested in, in New Zealand as well. He

asked about how the quarterly meetings you are having with some of those SME’s work? Who attends those

meetings?

Response: Cambodia Ms PEOU Vorleaks noted for SME metrology.is just one part of the picture. We are talking

about the technical regulatory tools and we would like to talk to SME’s about standards, accreditation and

metrology. There are more than 500,000 SME's, but the Ministry works directly with about 50,000 of them; so there

is much work to be done to help SME’s run their businesses to comply with legislation. We will join the community of

SME’s and expect more SME’s are registered. We are providing training supported by PTB on how to use QI (Quality

Infrastructure), metrology and standards.

Question: USA Dr Charles EHRLICH thanked Ms PEOU for the interesting presentation. He noted she mentioned the

OIML Certification System and asked for clarification on whether it is Cambodia’s intention to be a utiliser to accept

certificates under this Certification System, or are you saying that you need some assistance in experience with the

System before you would be able to do that?

Response: Cambodia Ms PEOU Vorleaks noted that after she had attended the recent CIML meeting, she heard that

there would be a meeting in Australia about OIML Certification. She would like to participate in training or discussion

about this system. She also would like to experience how this system works from a view point of other countries who

have successfully implemented the certification system. At this stage, we are not sure how and where we can fully

participate in the Certification System and we will need help to work towards building our own capability.

12 APLMF Business

Mr Stephen O’BRIEN – President

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12.1 23rd APLMF Minutes

Mr Stephen O’BRIEN, President noted draft 23rd APLMF Minutes were circulated to registered attendees for

feedback in March 2017 (3 months) and a final version was circulated for agreement to publish (via online approval)

in August 2017 (1 month). He also noted that the Secretariat developed a presentation on highlights which is

available on the website and we have had positive feedback on that. We will continue to fine tune the content and

quality of the minutes and streamline how we present them. We are always keen to receive your feedback on this.

Download Minutes – published on the website in October 2017. Note Section 11 ‘Member Only Session’ is only

accessible to members using their login.


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12.2 2017 Secretariat Report

APLMF Secretariat Work Programme 2017

Other activities from 2017

o Highlights from 23rd APLMF

o Draft process for approving guide and administrative documents

o Test Procedure Surveys

o Update on APEC Specialist Regional Bodies Forum

o Communications

o Financials

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12.3 Strategic Plan

The Strategic Plan 2016 -2020 was updated following the presentation at the 23rd APLMF, circulated to Executive

Committee and a final version was provided to members to consider for adoption (via online voting). It was then

published on the website. The Plan would be reviewed again in 2019 and 2021 to ensure it is relevant to the future

needs of the Forum.

Download Strategic Plan 2017-21

12.4 Launch of National Metrological Infrastructure Joint Guide 1

A printed copy of the National Metrological Infrastructure Joint Guide 1 (2016 2nd Edition) was provided to all

attendees of the 24th APLMF meeting courtesy of PTB (MEDEA).

Download the Guide

Question: Honorary Member Mr John BIRCH asked about the APEC activities. It was mentioned in the present report

work was being done in terms of coordinating the Specialist Regional Body (SRB) activities, but we didn’t get any idea

of what was actually happening at the SCSC itself? To what extent they have active programmes in the target area

and to what extent they are funding any programmes for the SRBs at present. Funding from SCSC was a major source

of our income until the MEDEA project and at some stage the MEDEA project is likely to run out. We will need to

consider in this case whether SCSC is likely to pick up the proposals of APLMF again or whether they have moved

away from our activity.

Response: President Mr Stephen O’BRIEN noted that he would be talking about the SRB’s later in the Programme on

what we were doing. But quite rightly, the focus of APEC is moving to another area. Basically they are focussing on

projects that are dealing with quite specific projects, similar to what APMP, including its focus groups, is doing with

their area of interest. The APEC projects are looking at the environment, safety and trade. There is a large number of

smaller projects and Stephen undertook to send some information around about it, because it is quite a detailed

programme. In terms of funding, he thought they seem to be a lot tighter on funding and some projects are being

funded by APEC itself, for example a couple of information portals and some development work in various economies.

They seem to be a lot tighter than they have been previously and there are checks and balances to ensure that

projects being funded are aligned with the APEC goals. So any future funding proposals for training, would need to be

closely aligned with the APEC goals and there is now a two stage committee process, where a recommendation has

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to go through SCSC and then another over-arching committee signing them off, so there is a lot more rigour than

before around that.

Question: Honorary Member Mr John BIRCH assumed there had been no change to the APEC membership in the last

few years.

Response: President Mr Stephen O’BRIEN advised his understanding is that there has effectively been a freeze on new

membership of APEC for some time and that is still in place. They have a couple of members who are observing, but

no new actual full members accepted.

13 Working Group – Action Plans 2018

Presented by Mr Kim TRUSCOTT, APLMF Secretariat

13.1 All Working Group Chairs

Action: WG Chairs were requested to evaluate their current WG membership and work programme and to decide

whether their WG is relevant and should remain. – advise Secretariat by 1 Jan 2018.

13.2 Training Coordination

Recommendations

Gather ideas and develop a new 3 year training Programme with a focus on finding ways for APLMF and APMP to

work more closely together and the Programme needs cover the development of both managers and their staff.

2018 Courses

Prepackaged Goods hosted by PR China

Verification of NAWI (including weighbridges) hosted by Malaysia – e-learning module would be available before this

course and participants would be asked to complete this before attending

Training Programme for the members of the QMAP WG to ensure a sound transition

Verification Rice Moisture Measurement – Pattaya Thailand

2019 Courses

Verification of Utility Meters

Emerging Issues

APMP have developed the following 6 focus groups to drive new work: Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy

Efficiency, Food Safety, Medical Diagnostic Equipment.

APLMF should consider how we can work with APMP on these initiatives.

OIML has initiated a pilot training centre which is currently being organised by PR China. APLMF should work closely

with this project.

13.3 Goods Packed by Measure


General

• Continue to explore methods for increasing capability within the region and reducing potential technical

barriers to the trade of prepackages through harmonising systems and processes.

Training

• Support the OIML Pilot Training Centre (OPTC), hosted by PR China and the development and delivery of a

regional training courses to be run on prepackaged goods inspection.

• Developing online training resources for Prepacked Goods inspection.

Emerging issue – Electronic Cigarettes

• Number of short measures and labelling non compliances.

• Appears to have limited controls to ensure legal compliance being applied by its manufacturers and

resellers.

13.4 Medical Measurements

• Investigating the Regulatory System and Recognized Standards for the “Non-invasive Automated

Sphygmomanometer”.

• Regulatory Systems

• Health authority

• Legal metrology authority

• Recognized Standards

• GHTF SG1-N11:2008

• OIML R16-2

• Others

13.5 Metrological Control Systems

Recommendations

• Interest raised in all economies about reforming and developing on metrological control system.

• Conduct a survey and analysis on the extent of metrological control system of APLMF member economies.

• Develop a guide document based on needs and interests from APLMF member economies.

• Hold seminars on common interest topics and provide consultancy for member economies who needs

assistance on this area.

Emerging issues

• New proposed topic on OIML - Certification System

• Publicity of OIML D1 and joint APLMF-APMP Guide 1: National Metrological Infrastructure


13.6 Mutual Recognition Arrangements

Continue participating in the OIML-CS (WG Chair is now a member of the Management Committee) and reporting on

its activities at APLMF meetings.

Emerging issues

As the OIML-CS enters the implementation phase, APLMF Member Economies should consider the impact /

implications of the new system concerning, for example:

OIML Basic Certificates will no longer be issued

Issuing Authorities now need to meet the formal peer review / accreditation requirements in ISO/IEC 17065;

New categories of instruments will be added over the next few years.

13.7 Quality Measurement of Agricultural Products

Recommendations

• New chair has been required. (Chair and Deputy Chair were subsequently appointed during the Member

Only Session on Friday)

• Transfer of international training Programmes to a regional or domestic level.

• Continue to run training courses; economies still need a traceability and

more practical knowledge / skills.

• Revision of the APLMF guide document on Rice Moisture Measurement.

Emerging issues

• Transferring over the assets of the working group to the new chair and new members.

• Synergy among the stakeholders in each economy is needed as, multiple ministries can be involved.

Remember to keep the stakeholders informed.

• Co-operation with the private sectors. Training Programmes and contents are closely connected to the

equipment, instruments and knowledge which are provided commercially

13.8 Utility Measures

Recommendations

• Discussions to take place on defining a possible role for the Working Group on Utility Measures. If there is a

need for this working group, or if a specific project is identified, an appropriate way forward will need to be

developed.

Emerging issue – Electric Vehicle Charging Stations (EVC Stations)

• Many of the electric vehicle charging stations being installed are designed with measurement systems

involving new technology. This raises questions about the applicable measurement laws administered and

enforced by NMI’s to which these devices would be subject.


Question: USA Mr Charles ERLICH asked where this discussion fits in the working group transition paper and whether

this work programme encompasses the existing working groups or is the intention to create a new working group.

He pointed out that practical implementation of this programme is not clear.

Response: President Mr Stephen O’BRIEN noted the Secretariat is working on this. We are yet to agree on the

transition. What we are suggesting here, and we will talk about it tomorrow in the member only session, is that the

Secretariat seeks feedback from the working groups by the 1st January with a clear recommendation for particular

working group. If the working group continues, then we would be review the terms of reference and the work

programme with a defined timeline. These would then be reviewed by the Secretariat and Executive Committee.

Response: Training Coordinator Mrs Marian HAIRE added that it might also be useful during the transition that the

current working group chairs assist with the development of the terms of reference, which is what Yoshi has done

with QMAP

14 Poster Sessions

This year, members were asked to submit their full economy reports 4 weeks prior to the meeting, to allow

delegates to pre-read reports. Most reports were received prior to the meeting

We took a different approach to presenting economy information at the meeting. Instead of the previous style of

report from each economy with a power point presentation of highlights(5 minutes each), we asked them to develop

an A2 poster, which depicted highlights and key issues for 2018 and beyond. The idea of this reformation was to

encourage much greater interaction and engagement by all participants.

Posters were displayed in the meeting room for the duration of the meeting and delegates encouraged to view the

posters during refreshment breaks. On Thursday we held a series of 5 poster sessions, in which each session was

presented with 3 or 4 economies. Delegates were split into 3 or 4 groups and spent 5 minutes at each poster. During

that 5 minutes the poster owner gave an introduction to their poster and then allowed questions/discussion from

the group. Each group then moved to the next poster. The sessions were spread throughout the day and delegates

encouraged to continue conversations on items of interest during the refreshment breaks.

It was encouraging that many felt 5 minutes was not long enough, which indicated the level of interest, and

engagement during this session. As a result of a post meeting survey, we hope to get a good understanding as to

whether this approach was more valuable.

Please note all Posters and Economy Reports can be found on the 24th Meeting documents page of the APLMF

website

14.1 Australia

Legislative Review

o NMI (Australia) is planning a review of Australia’s measurement legislation. The aim of the review is

to modernise Australia’s measurement framework.

New CEO and Chief Metrologist

o Former Chief Executive Officer and Chief Metrologist, Dr Peter Fisk retired in September 2017.

o Jane Coram is the new NMI Chief Executive Officer.

o Dr Bruce Warrington is the new Chief Metrologist.

Review of the Compliance Policy

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o NMIA has published a new National Compliance Policy. The fundamental principle driving the policy

is to minimise harm without creating unnecessary compliance costs or burdens for business.

NMIA Acceptance of Pattern Approval Test Results

o NMIA is reviewing current policy regarding the acceptance of pattern approval test results

Introduction of a Risk / Harm Framework

o NMIA is developing and implementing a regulatory framework primarily focused on minimising harm

associated with the consequence and likelihood of non-compliant activity.

Read more… Download Poster and Economy Full Report

14.2 Cambodia

Strengthening and implementing Cambodian metrology law and legal regulations for trade in metrological

fields.

Increasing and strengthening the capacity of technical officials.

Developing the working standards.

Encouraging the cooperation and advocating the existing project.

Continuing to integrate Cambodia’s legal metrology to ASEAN and the world.


14.3 Canada

Implementation of Legislative and Regulatory Amendments

o Increase in issues detected and corrected due to increase in inspections in the marketplace.

o New enforcement tools such as administrative monetary penalties that will help promoting

compliance.

Growth of Authorized Service Providers

o The majority of inspections in Canadian marketplace are performed by authorized service providers.

Introduction of new technology

o First approval of log scanning technology. Log scanners will improve the accuracy of measurement of

timber in the forestry industry.

Open Data

o The Government of Canada has established open data as a priority. Measurement Canada has

recently published measurement accuracy compliance data in the retail food and fuel sectors.


14.4 PR China

Participate in OIML activities

o Preliminary Management Committee, CPR and Seminar on OIML-CS was held in Shanghai, PR China.

o A committee for OIML-CS was established in PR China.

o Promote the reform of OIML Certification system, active participation for reforming the OIML

certification system.

Protecting consumers

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o Supervision on inspection of fuel-dispenser.

o Supervision on random spot check of net content of pre-packaged goods.

o Construction of information system on double random inspection of pre-packaged goods.

Revision of Metrology Law

o According to international metrology rules.

o Embodies the combination of market regulation and government management.

o Highlight the adjustment of the value.

International cooperation

o Enhancing the communication and exchanges for metrological policies.

o Promoting international mutual recognition for metrology.

o Enhancing technological exchanges about metrology between countries.

o Increasing the capacity of metrological services


14.5 Indonesia

Legislative Frameworks

o Several regulations that serves as foundation for metrology activity are under review

kWh Meter Verification

o At moment, only 50% of installed kWh meters has been verified. Directorate of Metrology (DoM)

discussed with State Electricity Company to seek the way out of the current problem.

Development of Length Laboratory

o DoM purchased a Linear Gauge to replace a 20 meters comparator.

Metrological Training

o The initial training for verification officers is conducted in 5 months, based on the consideration of

various type of measuring equipment in provinces.

o New training system will shorten teaching duration and improve verification officer’s competence

because it based on competence standard.

Procurement of Gas Meter Installation

o Indonesia Government has made beneficiaries Programmes using natural gas, which is called

National Gas Network. Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources aims 1.3 million household gas

network until 2019.

o To anticipate a large number of gas meters that needs to be type approved and verified, DoM plans

to build two installations for gas meter verification.


14.6 Japan

Review and Revision of Metrology Administration System

o Response to technological innovations and changes in social environment

o Reclassification and/or clarification the scope and the contents of current regulations

Cooperation with OIML

o New project for revising R 139 (compressed gaseous fuels measuring systems for vehicles) in

TC8/SC7 for adding the requirements for hydrogen dispensers

Promotional or Awareness Raising Activities

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o Events on Japanese Metrology Day (1st Nov.) by METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)

o Events on Children’s Day by METI

o Open laboratory of National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) to which

NMIJ belongs to

Cooperation with APLMF

o Training course on rice moisture measurement in July in Malaysia by WG on Quality Measurement of

Agricultural Products


14.7 Republic of Korea

Foundation of Korea Smart Metering Forum (KSMF)

o Objective: To provide cooperation basis through involvement of the industry, manufacturer, and

consumer

o Operation: Exchanging information on smart metering, technical requirements and international

trends in the field of metrology, including AMI, Big Data, Cloud, etc.

Charger for Eco-friendly vehicles

o EV supply equipment will be regulated from 2018.

o KATS will consider hydrogen charger as a new instrument category under legal metrology and

participating in the revision work of OIML R139

NAWI monitoring system using mobile application

o Develop QR code application for inspectors to monitor NAWI information conveniently

o Conduct pilot project at the market to verify its effectiveness

o Add GPS tracking function to allow inspectors to locate the NAWI

o Operate online open forum to share information


14.8 Malaysia

Protecting Consumer

o Spot-check operation between MDTCC, Metrology Corporation of Malaysia (MCM) and Malaysia

Palm Oil Board (MPOB)

o Ensuring accuracy of the verified weighbridges used in palm oil industries. The results were well

within MPE

o At the same time to check any possibility of manipulation that might took place

Working with Industry

o The amendment to SOLAS Regulation VI/2, which states the requirement for verified gross mass of a

container carrying cargo

R & D on Metrology in Malaysia

o To strength the Spa services regarding the measuring time with new Standard operating procedure

(SOP)

o Verification for tyre pressure gauge to ensure the safety of road users

E-Repairer

o New system called E-Repairer to track the status of all regulated measuring instruments under

Weights and Measures Act

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New Regulated Instruments

o The regulations will be revised in the Weights and Measures Act, where rice moisture and tyre

pressure measurements will be included.

Updates to OIML documents


14.9 New Zealand

Packed Poultry Products

o Could not agree with the NZ Poultry Industry whether fluid exuding from the poultry forms part of

the net quantity statement.

o Our position that this fluid exuded is not considered meat and should therefore not be included in

the net quantity statement.

o We are currently considering the appropriate enforcement action.

Online Approvals Register

o Developed primarily to assist Inspectors when completing inspections and Accredited Persons when

completing certification and verification work.

Unstamped Weighing Instruments

o Inspections conducted at local markets revealed that a number of stall holders were using non

approved price computing weighing instruments, which they had purchased via various Internet

sites.

o As a result a project will be conducted to minimise the distribution of these types of instruments

Electronic Cigarettes

o The Electronic Cigarette industry in NZ is growing rapidly. In recent years both the UK and US

Markets have shown significant growth in this sector, which has pre-empted us to take a proactive

approach to ensure this emerging industry is compliant with legal metrology requirements.


14.10 Papua New Guinea

2016/17

o Increasing interaction with agencies other than Independent Consumer & Competiton Commission

(ICCC) whose functions cover measuring instruments covered under legal metrology

o Developing MOUs as the basis to allow greater collaborations amongst those government agencies

involved in legal metrology

o Developing the Metrology Division through preparation for increased staff and capabilities

2018

o National survey on the metrology infrastructure service gaps, skill gaps, knowledge gaps and the

regulatory gaps.

o Review of the NISIT Act and possible introduction of a new Metrology Act for PNG

o Engagement of an experts from the APLMF to assist NISIT and work on the above items


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14.11 Philippines

Law changes in the work to modernize the National Measurement System through the revision of the

existing Republic Act 9236, otherwise known as the National Metrology Act of 2003.


14.12 Singapore

Standards development for marine bunkering industry

Market surveillance and testing of pre-packaged Products

Legislative review to better address current needs

Enhancing effectiveness of market surveillance approaches and activities


14.13 Chinese Taipei

Voluntary Self-Management Measures on Gas Stations

o The owner of gas station has to check the accuracy of dispensers periodically.

o Errors of dispensers have to be minimized as much as possible.

o 1242 gas stations have been granted the certificate and banner

On Job Training

o Multi training courses given annually.

o Focus on the verification tests procedure skill.

o Open to BSMI’ staffs and relative private operators

o Hands-on practice required.

Harmonization measuring instruments subject to legal control and to verification

o License required for measuring instruments subject to legal control.

o 17 categories of measuring instruments subject to legal control.

o 19 types of measuring instruments subject to verification.

o Measuring instruments subject to legal control not necessarily subject to verification.

Smart meters replacement Programme

o Only a few smart meters have been installed.

o Smart meters introduced to upgrade the management of electricity grid and water piping system.


14.14 Thailand

Study for supervising longan grading machines under legal metrology act

o The Bureau of Weights and Measures have studied construction of the machines, how to test them

and looked for suitable standards

The government has allocated budget for the 2018 fiscal year

o One application of the budget is to assemble a prototype mobile car to supervise the measuring

instruments of agricultural products used for trade

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Focus on type approval system

o Study procedures from other economies which have type approval functions

Renovate the museum of weights and measure in the Bureau of Weights and Measures

o Renovate the museum to be a center of education to show the benefits of science and legal

metrology for the economy and society


14.15 United States of America

Taximeters

o New code approved in 2017 to adequately address emerging technologies used to assess charges

based on time and/or distance measurements in taxi applications.

Precious Metals

o New requirements were adopted in 2017 to provide critical information that consumers should have

when deciding to sell items containing precious metals

Sub-metering

o Water, gas, and electricity sub-meters continue to be installed downstream of approved utility

meters in places such as apartments, trailer parks and strip malls.

o Many meters and installations do not meet the performance and accuracy requirements for

approved utility meters and are installed without the knowledge of the local regulatory authority

Harmonize with OIML

o The US is continuing the effort to harmonize its requirements in legal metrology with those of the

International Organization of Legal Metrology (OIML). Because our system splits responsibility

between the national government and the state governments, the National Conference on Weights

and Measures (NCWM) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are working as a

team to focus attention on the need to harmonize national and international legal metrology

standards


14.16 Vietnam

Sealing of Totalizing Counter

o Fully required for fuel dispensers

o Totalizing counters are sealed to prevent unauthorised manipulation

o Sealing helps reduce loss of collected tax from fuel stations

Vietnam Metrology Day

o Summary of Metrological management 2016 and future directions for 2017

o Challenges and opportunities of Metrological Management regarding measuring instruments in

Medical fields.

Expand legal metrology into various fields

o Work with other ministries in order to bring metrological regulations into different fields and

industries such as:

environmental protection (exhaust, salt etc.);

medical equipment (monitoring machine, infusion pump etc.);

transport equipment (braking force, smoke etc.).

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Best practices in metrology for SMEs for international integration

o Work with relevant partners and government organizations to develop the national metrological

Programme to improve the metrological capacity of domestic SMEs for encouraging competition and

integration in the global market.

Read more…Download Poster and Economy Full Report

15 Specialist Body Reports

15.1 APMP - Asia-Pacific Metrology Programme

Dr Toshiyuki TAKATSUJI, President APMP

President Stephen O’BRIEN introduced Dr TAKATSUJI and noted that it is great to have a presentation on what is

happening at the Asia Pacific Metrology Programme as we talked earlier in the day about the importance of the total

quality infrastructure which includes both scientific and legal metrology. The topics of the presentation from APMP

were:

Governance and Membership Updates

APMP Membership and Organization

Strategic Developments

TC Initiatives

“Focus Group” (FG) strategy

Support for Developing Economies

Linkages to APEC

APMP GA and Related Meetings in 2017

Read more….Download Presentation

Question: Honorary Member Mr John BIRCH asked if Dr TAKATSUJI could give us an idea of the annual membership

fees collected by APMP each year.

Response: APMP President Dr Toshiyuki TAKATSUJI noted the fee structure depends on the strength of the economies

and it varies from year to year. The total income is approximately USD 200,000.

15.2 BIML – Review of CIML 52nd Meeting, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

Mr Stephen PATORAY, BIML Director

President Stephen O’BRIEN introduced Mr Stephen PATORAY as the Director, International Bureau of Legal

Metrology.

During the meeting 36 Resolutions were approved and Mr PATORAY highlighted those most relevant to APLMF

members.

2017/30 Election of CIML President

2017/31 Appointment of a new BIML Assistant Director

2017/32 Extension of the appointment of a BIML Assistant Director

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2017/34 Retirement of CIML President, Mr Peter MASON, as well as CIML Member for UK and awarding him

as a Member of Honour

2017/35 Retirement of a Presidential Committee member, Mr Alan JOHNSTON, as well as CIML Member for

Canada, and awarding him as a Member of Honour

2017/22 Management Committee of OIML-CS - Appointments - Mr Cock OOSTERMAN as Chairperson and

Mr Bill LOIZIDES as Deputy Chairperson

2017/15 Advisory Group on CEMS - Appointment of Mr Peter MASON as Vice Chairperson (3 years)

2017/33 OIML Awards for Excellent Achievements in Legal Metrology in Developing Countries – awarding

the three organisations in Malaysia

2017/26 Approved publication of an OIML Guide – G 20 Surveillance of utility meters in service on the basis

of sampling inspections.

2017/25 Approved Revision of: R 60 Metrological regulations for load cells, R 61 Automatic gravimetric filling

instruments and R 80 Road and rail tankers with level gauging

2017/16 Approved Final Draft revision OIML B 6 Directives for OIML technical work with re-evaluation 3 in 3-

5 years.

2017/17 Confirmed the rules set out in B6 shall only apply to the development, revision or amendment of

OIML Basic Publications if the CIML so decides.

2017/27 Approved a new project – the revision of OIML D 1:2012 Considerations for a Law on Metrology

2017/28 Approved a new project in TC 2 Units of measurement the revision of OIML D 2:2007 Legal units of

measurement.

2017/8 Reminded Member States of their obligations under Article XXVI of the Convention which states inter

alia “Contributions shall be paid at the beginning of the year to the Director of the Bureau.”

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Comment: APLMF President Mr O’BRIEN acknowledged APLMF’s appreciation that Mr PATORAY has participated in so many APLMF meetings and he believed this has strengthened ties among BIML, OIML and our members.

15.3 PTB – Overview of Activities

Dr Sabine GREINER, PTB MEDEA Coordinator

15.3.1 International Cooperation in Asia

Dr GREINER provided a report including the following contents:

Types of Projects carried out by PTB department (9.32) – for Interlinking competencies

Project Portfolio in Asia

Improving Quality Infrastructure in ASEAN

Promoting Regional Cooperation in Metrology (MEDEA)

Technical Cooperation with Regional Accreditation Networks

Strengthening Quality Infrastructure in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Nepal, and Cambodia

15.3.2 APLMF Guide 1 launch

APLMF/APMP National Metrological Infrastructure Joint Guide 1, was completed and made available on the APLMF

website earlier in the year. A hard copy was provided to each economy attending the APLMF meeting.


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15.4 APEC SRB Activities


Mr O’BRIEN provided a report including the following contents:

Specialist Regional Bodies Forum

Current Specialist Regional Bodies Forum focus

o Improving internal governance structures and how we operate

o Improved Effectiveness

o Improved Communication


Mr O’BRIEN also pointed to an APEC at a Glance brochure on the meeting webpage which provides an overview of

what are focussed on at the moment as the goals of APEC.

Comment: Honorary Member Mr John BIRCH noted it would be valuable to also improve our communications

between APLMF and APEC.

Response: APLMF President Mr Stephen O’BRIEN thanked Mr BIRCH for that suggestion and asked if he had any

thoughts on what we would do for that APEC goal.

Response: Honorary Member Mr John BIRCH suggested that APLMF should approach APEC and see if we can set up a

dialogue and potentially some meetings. Mr O’BRIEN agreed to follow up on that.

16 OIML System

16.1 Expected Benefits of the new OIML – Certification System

Mr Bill LOIZIDES, Deputy Chair, OIML-CS Management Committee

Mr LOIZIDES gave a summarised version of a recent presentation delivered by Dr Peter ULBIG, Head of PTB Division

Q at the recent OIML meeting in Colombia. He also invited Dr Charles ERHLICH, who was recently nominated to

assist with the activities to cooperate with OIML System (OIML-CS) within APLMF to contribute additional

information to this presentation, along with Mr Stephen PATORAY.

What would be without OIML-CS?

o Implications for every manufacturer of a regulated measuring instrument

o What would we miss?

Benefits of OIML- CS

o Who benefits?

o What are the benefits for Manufacturers, Utiliser and Associates, Issuing authorities and

Customers

Summary of benefits for the whole OIML world

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o Internationally harmonised requirements for measuring instruments

o Highly reduced bureaucratic efforts for saving time and money

o More thrust into a worldwide system for mutual recognition.

He noted that there are currently 9 of the 20 APLMF full members who are issuing authorities and/or utilisers of

OIML-CS. He encouraged the other 11 APLMF full members to go onto the OIML website and look at what is required

for to become a utiliser (to accept certificates) – this does not mean that the members have to have a test lab. To be

a utiliser, the members have to have the backing of the law of their economy that requires a permission by an

accreditation system in the economy. For those economies who are OIML members, they must have agreement to

be an issuing authority or utiliser. Consideration of those applications will occur in March in Australia by the

Management Committee. He encouraged members to contact him, Mr Paul DIXON or Dr Charles EHRLICH for any

assistance.

Download Dr ULBIG’s Presentation

Comment/Question: Honorary Member Mr John BIRCH thanked Mr LOIZIDES for the presentation and agreed that

the case of a global system of pattern approval is overwhelming and the sooner this system is operating the better.

He asked how confident are we in the fact that the manufactured items conform to the result of pattern approval?

He noted there has been a long history of non-compliant instruments, particularly in developing countries, having

instruments dumped on them because the cost of making e.g. if a load cell complied to the approved pattern, it, adds

a significant cost to individual load cells. Too often the formal procedures are bypassed and poor equipment is

dumped. He was interested to hear Mr LOIZIDESS views about what we can do about a compliant system to support

the certificate system.

Response: Mr Bill LOIZIDES noted, he had a conversation with colleagues at this meeting about the fact that some

APLMF members are becoming a dumping ground of the instruments. What happens; from the conversation, was a

situation e.g. Australia does test on. Type A instrument, PR China does it on Type B instrument and so it means we

are not testing the same instrument. Especially for countries that don’t have test labs, they have to have a confidence

on an existing system E.g. if an instrument doesn’t appear right in Vietnam, they would then contact APLMF or the

country who manufactured it and indicate they are having problems and they may need to do some additional

testing. We could then work together and identify who should test the instrument.

Comment: OIML Mr Stephen PATORAY noted there is an OIML project underway on Conformity to Type (CTT).

LOIZIDES. Although some economies use different names for this system, it has been a challenge for CTT. As Mr

BIRCH mentioned, many countries agree on its importance. As Mr LOIZIDES pointed out, a system for sharing

information of non-conforming product may improve the current situation. Manufacturers can export products to

any country as far as they have a certificate. But we cannot assure that all products meet the approved type. Some

international/regional systems for surveillance and vigilance is requested as many economies presently do not have a

responsible body. Present OIML system also does not assure CTT, so we need diligence and feedbacks by the OIML

members.

Comment: APLMF President Mr Stephen O’BRIEN noted there is an instructive draft document in OIML that is under a

second committee phase, and this draft has been stalled for a while, but agrees that conformity to type is important.

He hopes the instructive document will help this situation in the future.

Comment: OIML Mr Stephen PATORAY accepted an equal share of the responsibility of that instructive document

(which will probably be an OIML Guide) which was approved as a project. This was also a part of what Mr Willem

KOOL had been working with and when he passed away this work was not continued. But Mr Paul DIXON is now

committed to assist with this and we will get this work finished as a guide and we expect it will have the final review

by CIML before it is approved. It should be the basis of what we then create the next project to create a new

document or a recommendation conformity to type that we can utilise around the world as an international

publication of OIML.

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16.2 Review of OIML Resolutions

Mr Stephen PATORAY, Director BIML, OIML

Mr PATORAY noted there are times when we need to understand some terminology as this certificate

system does use a lot of terms. With this presentation he tried to clarify some of the terminology but it was

mainly focussed on how the member economies can participate in this system.

Report of Seminar by Mr Cock OOSTERMAN at the CIML meeting in Colombia

Steps to be taken to become an Issuing Authority, Utilizer or Associate of OIML-CS

Example of corresponding tables in Netherlands

Example of corresponding tables in EU

Admission of Utilizers or Associates of OIML-CS

Steps to become an Issuing Authority (+Test Lab.)

Use of Forms: www.oiml.org

He reiterated that members need to take action. Even if they take no action however, they can still use the

certificate system. You won’t benefit as much if you participate in the system as a Utiliser, Associate or as an Issuing

Authority. The system will only be as good as the members make it. The main reason why the earlier MAA (Mutual

Acceptance Arrangement) and the basic system were needed to change was a lack of acceptance in worldwide. We

hope the confidence in the new system will allow us to get rid of some of the bad products in the market and the

dumping that takes place.

He hoped that his presentation, along with Mr LOIZIDES’s and Dr Charles EHRLICH’s previous presentations has

provided a clearer picture on what the system entails and how the member economies can participate.

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Comment: APLMF President Mr Stephen O’BRIEN thanked Mr PATORAY for his presentation and agreed that we have

had good overview of what we need to do from the three presenters on various aspects of this topic.

He noted on behalf of New Zealand, a utiliser under the present MAA system wouldn’t need anything to get into the

Certification, so it was good to understand, that we need to be proactive to continue utilising.

Comment: Mr Bill LOIZIDES noted the system is not 100% perfect, which is why we have introduced some transition

periods into the new system. There is also a Management Committee, which will go back and look at the processes

and procedures, find out what’s not working well as it was intended and collect feedbacks from the utilisers. A couple

of feedback systems have been built in to try and make sure that the System evolves and suits the participating

economies. He encouraged members to have a look at the materials and documentation of OIML to get involved in

the system. The members can be a Utilizer, an Associate, or even an Issuing Authority for one instrument type, and

such an active participation would be highly welcomed. A number of delegates at this meeting or within your

organisations, could become utilisers, but also have experts who could participate and become part of the system as

peer assessors. We are looking for experts to participate and become part of the system. Your economy does not

necessarily to have a test laboratory to provide experts for testing of products or quality assurance systems.

Comment/Question: Honorary Member Mr John BIRCH asked for clarification on the role of the utilising organisation,

which accepts an international pattern approval certificate and allow that equipment to be used in their country. Will

the authority issue a certificate in their own country based on that international certificate?

Response: Mr Bill LOIZIDES advised that is up to the economy that the certification comes into. For example, in

Australia, at the moment, the law mandates an Australian certificate is required, but I hope, when the OIML

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Certification System is implemented, it will be a simple process and they will just get a domestic certification from an

OIML certificate. So it depends on individual economy, what their law dictates.

Comment/Question: Honorary Member Mr John BIRCH noted this is basically a question of legal standing in each

economy. In Australia he noted we have trouble accepting overseas calibration certificates, because they don’t have

the legal standing in the local system and such a situation would apply in most economies, in terms of their

legislation. It is not a big problem, it does mean that the utilising authority have responsibility for the use of that

equipment in their economy by declaring that we accept this certificate as a mutual acceptance.

Comment: USA Dr Charles EHRLICH noted in the US it will be the opposite – that the national type evaluation

programme will accept the test data, not the certificate and then they will issue a national N type certificate based on

a review of the data/ So the wording in these documents on certificates is that is says ‘and/or accept a certificate’

‘and/or test data’.

Comment: OIML Mr Stephen PATORAY concurred with the comments. Acceptance of type-approval certificate

depends on the legislation system and knowledge provided in the importing economy. The former means a legal

system for converting an OIML certificate to a national (N-Type) certificate. The latter is related to the fact that

acceptance of a certificate is effectively a utilisation of a test report accompanies with test data. If the economy does

not have sufficient technical expertise, it cannot assess the quality of the report. So it is expected an a issuing

authority supported by a test laboratory usually has such expertise and it can be a good utiliser in OIML-CS.

Comment: Training Coordinator Mrs Marian HAIRE noted she has been looking at the results from the workshop on

Wednesday and a lot of people have mentioned type approval and single certificate as something they wanted to

know more about. Hopefully these presentations and the discussion has provided with lots of information to consider

the fact that Dr EHRLICH’s working group is actually still needed.

Response: USA Dr Charles EHRLICH noted Mrs HAIRES comment. He was approached by a member economy that said

the same thing, that perhaps the working groups should be maintained. He noted the chairmanship of the working

group could go to the economy who is most interested in doing this and Mr LOIZIDES could remain as experts on that

working group. In the earlier discussion we agreed that it wouldn’t until January that this issue on chairmanship be

decided. We agreed there could be reason to keep the working group, but what would the explicit project be?

Whether to WG is kept or not, certainly a report from OIML-CS should be provided annually at this meeting and

discussion would be continued appropriately.

Comment: APLMF President Mr Stephen O’BRIEN agreed the comments and he proposed that we do need to be very

tight with the project definition of new system for working groups and we can facilitate it over a set period and

promote and facilitate its input into the APLMF economies.

Question: Mr Bill LOIZIDES sought clarification as to whether a new working group for implementation or a

training/information session was needed. He noted the Chair of the Management Committee would be willing to

assist economies for implementation or understanding.

Response: Training Coordinator Mrs Marian HAIRE advised that normally working groups would make that decision.

As the training coordinator she doesn’t see the need to produce training courses on pattern approval for a multitude

of instruments. Mrs HAIRE agreed information of training sessions or something related could be accessed on OIML

website.

Comment: Mr Bill LOIZIDES (as Deputy Chair of the MC) noted that he will discuss with the Chair of Management

Committee (MC) in March when he is in Australia, and if any economy does wish further information Mr LOIZIDES

would put forward requests.


16.3 Certification System for Pre-packages OIMLR87

Guest Speaker – Dr Hans-Peter VATERLAUS, METAS, Switzerland

He provided presentation on:

• Guidance for defining the system requirements for a certification system for packages

• OIML R 87 Edition 2016: Quantity of product in pre packages

Download Dr VATERLAUS’s presentation

17 Farewell Dinner

A Farewell Dinner was hosted by APLMF at the Hotel. Presentations of certificates for a Distinguished Service Award

and Service Awards were made to the members of the previous APLMF President and Secretariat from People’s

Republic of China. These awards were already conveyed to them at the 23rd APLMF Forum Meeting in Japan in 2016.

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18 24th Asia-Pacific Legal Metrology Forum Meeting -

Full Member Only Session

Introduction to Session - Mr Stephen O’BRIEN

Minutes of Section 18 of the meeting can be found on the member only area of the website

18.1 Roll Call

18.2 Secretariat Interim Financial Report – Jan – Oct 2017

18.3 Online Voting - discussion

18.4 Membership Fees – discussion paper

18.5 Membership Status - changes

18.6 Membership Criteria – discussion paper

18.7 Strategic Plan

18.8 Working Group Transition – discussion paper

18.9 Quality Measurement of Agricultural Products WG Appointments

18.10 Extension of Presidency/Secretariat 2018-2019

18.11 2018 Work Programme - Secretariat

18.12 2018 Draft High Level Budget

18.13 2017 APLMF Service Awards

18.14 Review draft Procedures for Approval of Guide and Administrative

Documents

19 Asia-Pacific Legal Metrology Forum cont..d

11.30am – 1pm, Friday, 27 October 2017

19.1 Asia Pacific Metrology Portal - Raising Awareness of Metrology (MEDEA

APMP-APLMF Joint Project 2)

Mr Kim TRUSCOTT (Secretariat) reported

Project Objective - Improve the sharing of information resources between member economies to enable

them to increase awareness of the importance of metrology with consumers, industry, other regulators and

government.

Work Package – Main Activities

Develop a joint APMP-APLMF metrology web portal to facilitate sharing of information resources

Relationship between the web Portal and other international metrology organisations

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Develop best practice for improving awareness of metrology

Project Goals

Resources – will vary depending on the level of technicality, as the material will need to be used across

multiple settings and it will be used by organisations/people who have variable understanding of metrology

issues.

Project Progress – Phase 1, 2 and 3

Mr TRUSCOTT stressed the importance of the contribution from the member economies regarding case studies etc.

to guarantee the success of the web portal.

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Comment: PR China Mr GUO Su acknowledged the work that has been done on the web portal. He asked about

access to the secure website. The information of World Metrology Day is good, so perhaps the Secretariat could add

member economy’s activities to the web portal.

Response: Mr TRUSCOTT noted they were looking to create a section with a clickable map for example that shows all

economies in the APLMF region and some of the areas of note that they are working on. These will also highlight

World Metrology Day.

Response: Mr O’BRIEN advised that we are in a peer review process for the web portal and once that has finished

then we will release the portal as a draft. We will shortly be sending out requests for case studies and we will have a

resource that will assist in writing these up. So we just need the good news stories from the members, which we can

turn into case studies. We are hoping for a soft launch of the web portal in late February and it will be fully up and

running for 2018 World Metrology Day in May. This tool, is designed to enable communication also with non-

metrologists e.g. government officials and regulators as we aim to promote an understanding of the value of

metrology.

19.2 Future meetings


Mr O’BRIEN advised we still don’t have confirmation of a host for the 25th APLMF and Working Group

Meetings to be held in 2018. There are a number of economies who have hosted once and some of them

have hosted twice and Japan has hosted three times. So we are really keen to focus on this milestone

event of 25 years. It is a wonderful opportunity to showcase APLMF and what we are doing. In addition

MEDEA 2 will be underway.

We have had a positive indication from Malaysia for 26th Meeting in 2019 and Papua New Guinea possibly

for 27th Meeting in 2020. These are just an indication of interest and we look forward to confirmation

before deciding on these future meetings. He advised he would be writing to economies who have hosted

the meeting once, asking them to consider hosting in 2018.

He noted he would appreciate any support from economies to the proposal to host the 25th APLMF

meetings so we can confirm dates and venue for this meeting.

He suggested other economies talk to our colleagues from Cambodia about how the experience has been

for them and how the support of the Secretariat has been provided to a hosting economy including

financial support.

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The meeting queried if Singapore could explore the feasibility of hosting the 25th APLMF meeting.

Comment: APMP Chair Dr Toshiyuki TAKATSUJI noted that if the 25th APLMF is hosted by Singapore in 2018,

the APMP will also organise their meeting in Singapore, so there could be an opportunity to organise the

meetings back to back.

Response: Mr Stephen O’BRIEN noted the possible timing would be up to the potential host, but one option

is to have it on 4-7 December that would be directly after the APMP meeting and that would enable us to

have a workshop or a joint event at one of the two meetings. It would be advantageous for some of the

economies who may not have attended an APMP meeting.

Comment: APMP Chair Dr Toshiyuki TAKATSUJI noted there are pro’s and con’s to combine the two

meetings, there is an opportunity for very productive events, but it means a long time will be needed to be

away from the home economy. Already the duration of the APMP meetings is almost 10 days, so this

proposal does require discussion.

Comment: Singapore Mr Yong Seng LIM noted he is aware that APMP is being hosted by Singapore in 2018.

There will be two organisations hosting this event. He noted that SPRING Singapore is undergoing some

organisational changes. He agreed to take the idea back and discuss the possibility.

Mr Stephen O’BRIEN noted the organisational changes that Singapore is undergoing and agreed that he

will send out formal requests to some member countries to host the upcoming 25th APLMF meeting.

19.3 Closing remarks by Co-Chair

Ms PEOU Vorleaks

Mrs PEOU apologised for having to depart the meeting a little earlier as she has a commitment in Phnom Penn.

In her closing remarks, she acknowledged the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft and her colleagues at National

Metrology Centre. She expressed her sincere appreciation to all delegates for their contribution and participating

during the 24th APLMF and Working Group Meetings. The Meetings provided her an excellent opportunity to interact

with the participants and she noted she has learned a lot in the past few days and looked forward to new actions

coming out of the meeting. She was pleased with the interactions with the participants and the depth of the

dialogues to build a more open, transparent and effective Asia-Pacific Legal Metrology Forum. It was her great

privilege to co-chair this important meeting and she expressed her appreciation for the collaboration between the

staff of National Metrology Centre and APLMF Secretariat for excellent arrangements for this event. She particularly

appreciated the full and free discussion during the meeting between the member economies and guests. She hoped

that delegates would carry happy memories of their visit to Cambodia with them and wished prosperity for all and

safe travels as they returned to their home economies.

19.4 Closing remarks by President


Mr O’BRIEN acknowledged and thanked Ms PEOU for her contribution as the Co-Chair and the team from the

Ministry of Industry and Handicraft and National Metrology Centre for their dedicated work to support the meetings.

He noted they can be very proud of their contribution in making the 24th APLMF and Working Group Meetings to be


remembered as a great success in the forum. He thanked Cambodia for its hospitality and warm welcome. He had no

doubt all delegates would be taking away a very warm impression of Cambodia. He also noted he was impressed

with the development in legal metrology within NMC. He expressed the Forum’s appreciation to H.E. Mr UCH Bora

for his support of the meeting and the commitment within the Ministry.

Mr O’BRIEN acknowledged the meeting was started on a very positive note and finished also on a positive note.

Service Awards which had been endorsed during the Members’ Only session earlier in the day were presented to the

following members and recipients were congratulated.

Mr Sakchai HASAMIN – Thailand Economy Representative

Dr Tsuyoshi MATSUMOTO – Chair of Working Group on Quality Measurement of Agricultural Products

Mr Kevin GUDMUNDSSON – Chair of Working Group on Goods Packed by Measure

Mr Alan JOHNSTON – APLMF Executive Committee Member and Chair of Working Group for Utility Meters

Mr Hari PRAWOKO – APLMF Executive Committee Member and Indonesia Economy Representative.

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19.5 Angkor Wat Campus Tour

The Ministry of Industry and Handicraft and National Metrology Centre, Cambodia generously hosted delegates on a

tour of the Angkor Wat Campus.

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