12th meeting of the COOMET Strategy Working Group and 28th meeting of the COOMET President's Council
On November 24, within the framework of the strategy working group, issues of possible changes in the institutional status of COOMET were discussed. KazStandart held a presentation on the possibilities of registering a legal entity in the form of a non-profit organization on the basis of the Astana International Financial Center.
On November 25, the meeting of the COOMET President's Council was attended by 4 COOMET Vice-Presidents representing Germany, Georgia, Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation, COOMET President – Director General of the Belarusian State Institute of Metrology V.L. Gurevich, as well as representatives of the COOMET secretariat and national secretariats of the countries.
The issues of developing a Concept for the use of digital technologies in the field of metrology within COOMET, the results of activities for the development of standards of units of the participating countries, the implementation of traceability of measurements to the international system of SI units through participation in international comparisons of standards and evaluation of quality management systems of national institutes of metrology within COOMET, submission for approval of newly developed documents and recommendations of COOMET, etc. were considered.
The participants positively noted the proposals presented by KAZSTANDART within the framework of the implementation of the tasks of the Vice President in the direction of cooperation with COOMET countries with a developing metrological system (CEEMS) on approaches to involving CEEMS in the activities of COOMET structural bodies and possible ways to support CEEMS within COOMET. During the next year, KAZSTANDART will have to work out the Program of COOMET's work on the implementation of this direction.
It was decided to hold the next 32nd meeting of the COOMET Committee in Kazakhstan in the summer of 2022.