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EURAMET is happy to announce that the liaison with ISO/TC 48 for laboratory equipment is officially approved. This is the first registered liaison between a technical committee (TC) of the International Standards Organisation (ISO) and EURAMET.

The liaison provides EURAMET with the opportunity to actively participate in ISO's standards development work, which may be incorporated into drafts of International Standards or other ISO deliverables.

EURAMET is represented by Elsa Batista (IPQ, Portugal) who is the contact person in EURAMET's TC for Flow. Thanks to Elsa, EURAMET is able to contribute to ISO at working group level, where the standards are drafted and revised, and at TC level, where the approval of the final working document takes place.

"It is very important for EURAMET to contribute to TC 48, not only because we are using these standards procedures in our own laboratories, but also because we can provide the necessary metrology input to them during revision or development", explained Elsa. "That means the standards and the metrology communities can really benefit from this collaboration. Thanks to EURAMET's TCs, we have the infrastructure to collect feedback on the standards directly from the metrology community."

Elsa is an experienced representative for EURAMET, as she has been a Portuguese expert of ISO/TC 48 since 2007. The standardisation work of ISO/TC 48 covers equipment for laboratories involved in chemical, physical and biological work.

EURAMET is looking forward to a successful collaboration with ISO. An application to become a liaison member of ISO/TC 28 is in progress. TC 28 is working on 'Petroleum products and related products of synthetic or biological origin' and is now developing an ISO Standard 8222 which is related to EURAMET guide No. 21 'Guidelines on the Calibration of Standard Capacity Measures using the Volumetric Method'.