{"id":260185,"date":"2023-09-15T19:49:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T14:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=260185"},"modified":"2023-10-08T08:32:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T03:02:06","slug":"bharat-becomes-the-13th-country-in-world-that-can-issue-internationally-accepted-oiml-international-organization-of-legal-metrology-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bharat-becomes-the-13th-country-in-world-that-can-issue-internationally-accepted-oiml-international-organization-of-legal-metrology-certificates\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharat becomes the 13th country in world that can issue Internationally Accepted OIML (International Organization of Legal Metrology) Certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>Bharat becomes the 13th country in world that can issue Internationally Accepted OIML (International Organization of Legal Metrology) Certificates<\/b><b>\u201d\u00a0 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> PIB on 14th September 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Union Consumer Affairs Ministry has announced that India can now issue International Organisation of Legal Metrology (OIML) certificates which are accepted globally.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has now become the 13th country that can issue such certificates.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the International Organization of Legal Metrology<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(<\/span><b>OIML<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OIML is an intergovernmental organisation created in 1955.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is an international standard-setting body.It develops model regulations, standards and related documents for use by legal metrology authorities and industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"no_first_intro_para\">It plays a crucial role in harmonising national laws and regulations on the performance of measuring instruments like clinical thermometers, alcohol breath analysers, radar speed measuring instruments, ship tanks found at ports and petrol dispensing units.<\/p>\n<p><b>Members: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has 63 Member States and 64 Corresponding Members.India became its member in 1956.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Headquarters: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paris, France<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Why is the OIML<\/b><b> certificate important?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An OIML Pattern Approval certificate is mandatory to sell a weight or measure in the international market which India can now issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This will help domestic manufacturers as they can export their weighing and measuring instruments worldwide without incurring additional testing fees, resulting in significant cost savings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Significance:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has now become the 13th country that can issue OIML certificates.The other countries include <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Australia, Switzerland, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, France, United Kingdom, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden and Slovakia.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cBharat becomes the 13th country in world that can issue Internationally Accepted OIML (International Organization of Legal Metrology) Certificates\u201d\u00a0 published in PIB on 14th September 2023 What is the News? The Union Consumer Affairs Ministry has announced that India can now issue International Organisation of Legal Metrology&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bharat-becomes-the-13th-country-in-world-that-can-issue-internationally-accepted-oiml-international-organization-of-legal-metrology-certificates\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bharat becomes the 13th country in world that can issue Internationally Accepted OIML (International Organization of Legal Metrology) Certificates<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,9],"tags":[11872,3590],"class_list":["post-260185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}