Harmonization of the legislative acts and normative documents on metrology in Ukraine

摘要

This article describes the modern metrological legislative and normative bases in Ukraine, as well as the primary tasks to be undertaken for their harmonization. Ukraine has been an OIML Corresponding Member since January 1997. Modern metrology is distinguished by close worldwide collaboration and cooperation, since no individual country can resolve the whole set of metrological issues alone. This is why cooperation is increasing between the various national metrological services both multilaterally and bilaterally, accompanied by key mutual exchanges of experience and information. Internationalization is an obligatory feature of measurement: world trade determines the global economy while scientific, technological and medical studies depend on international cooperation. Developing the coordination of legal metrology concepts, requirements and procedures is a long-term process, but accelerating this coordination is necessary especially taking into consideration the main goal of the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade and reinforced by other related international agreements on the elimination of such barriers.