The OIML is an “international standard-setting body” in the sense of the World Trade Organization’s Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement.
OIML publications should therefore be applied, when appropriate, by all signatories of the TBT Agreement when developing technical regulations, in application of Article 2.4 of that Agreement.
Bharat became its member in 1956. It has 63 Member States and 64 Corresponding Members. To sell a weight or measure in the international market an OIML Pattern Approval certificate is mandatory.
Bharat has now become authority for issuing internationally accepted OIML certificates for selling weights & measures anywhere in the world.
The domestic manufacturers can now export their weighing and measuring instruments worldwide without incurring additional testing fees, resulting in significant cost savings. Bharat can also support the foreign manufacturers by issuing OIML pattern approval certificates from our certified RRSLs.
By issuing the OIML approval certificates of weighing & measuring instruments to the foreign manufacturers Bharat will also generate forex in terms of fees etc.
Bharat now joins an exclusive group of nations, including Australia, Switzerland, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, France, United Kingdom, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, and Slovakia, as the 13th country worldwide, authorized for issuing OIML approval certificates.
