MINSK, 18 May (BelTA) – Belarus has an effective and well-developed metrological infrastructure, BelTA learned from First Deputy Chairman of the State Standardization Committee Dmitry Bartashevich at a press conference held on 18 May to discuss innovations and ways of development of metrology in Belarus.
The official noted that Belarus has an effective and well-developed metrological infrastructure, which includes the state metrological service (the National Metrological Institute is part of it), 16 organizations of the State Standardization Committee, and metrological services of various government agencies and Belarusian enterprises.
The State Standardization Committee is in charge of pursuing a unified government policy and coordinating work in the area of ensuring the uniformity of measurements.
A law on ensuring the uniformity of measurements came into force on 27 November 2020. Full-fledged implementation of the law has begun this year. The law is designed to provide comprehensive and systemic regulation of public relations in matters concerning the uniformity of measurements at the modern level. The law meets provisions of the Eurasian Economic Union Treaty and takes into account documents of international metrology organizations and the experience of the European Union. The law more clearly delineates the authority of the state metrological service, legal persons (their metrological services), and other entities as they work to ensure the uniformity of measurements in the regulated field (the sphere of legislative metrology) and the non-regulated one.
The law provides for setting up a state information fund to ensure the uniformity of measurements. The fund will contain the legal base concerning the uniformity of measurements, a section of international requirements in this field, and the necessary information about national measurement standards, and so on.
Belarusian metrologists mark the World Metrology Day every year on 20 May together with the international metrological community. The holiday is timed to the signing of the Metre Convention in 1875. It was the document that laid down the foundation of global cooperation in the area of measurements. Belarus has been a full member of the Metre Convention since 13 January 2000.
The World Metrology Day is usually accompanied by a certain theme. Measurement for Health is this year's theme. It underlines the importance of measurements in preserving and protecting human health.
According to Dmitry Bartashevich, today international attention is primarily focused on overcoming consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The experience and capabilities of metrological organizations all over the world are needed to accomplish new tasks in the area of healthcare.
Metrology plays the central role in preserving health, raising living standards, in scientific inventions and innovations, industrial manufacturing and international trade, Dmitry Bartashevich noted. All the aspects of modern life depend to a certain degree on the precision, uniformity, and reliability of measurements, he said.
