WELMEC is a body set up to promote European cooperation in the field of
legal metrology. WELMEC members are drawn from the national authorities responsible for legal metrology in
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been ...
(EU) and
European Free Trade Association
The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) is a regional trade organization and free trade area consisting of four European states: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. The organization operates in parallel with the European ...
(EFTA) member states.
WELMEC state their mission as being "to develop and maintain mutual acceptance among its members and to maintain effective cooperation to achieve a harmonised and consistent approach to the societies needs for legal metrology and for the benefit of all stakeholders including consumers and businesses."
WELMEC was established in 1990, at a meeting in Bern, Switzerland,
and was originally the acronym for the "Western European Legal Metrology Cooperation". WELMEC has 30 members and 7 associate members.
[ Today, although the name is still WELMEC, as the European Union extended its membership outside Western Europe, so did WELMEC, the organisation's membership encompassing EU member states, EFTA members and aspiring EU members:]Measuring Instruments Directive
The Measuring Instruments Directive 2014/32/EU (the information is not updated and below this article refers to the old one 2004/22/EC), is a directive by the European Union, which seeks to harmonise many aspects of legal metrology across all me ...
(MID – EU directive (2004/22/EC). The organisation's working parties, which map onto various aspects of these two directives, are:
*WG 2 Directive Implementation (2009/23/EC)
*WG 5 Metrological supervision
*WG 6 Prepackages
*WG 7 Software
*WG 8 Measuring Instruments Directive
*WG 10 Measuring equipment for liquids other than water
*WG 11 Gas and Electricity Meters
*WG 13 Water and Thermal Energy Meters
See also
* EURAMET EURAMET (European Association of National Metrology Institutes, previously known as EUROMET, the European Collaboration in Measurement Standards) is a collaborative alliance of national metrological organizations from member states of the European U ...
, the European Association of National Metrology Institutes
* International Organization of Legal Metrology
The International Organization of Legal Metrology (french: Organisation Internationale de Métrologie Légale - OIML), is an intergovernmental organisation that was created in 1955 to promote the global harmonisation of the legal metrology procedur ...
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://www.welmec.org
Measurement
Standards organizations