Russian Federation
Federal Law
On Assurance of Measurement Uniformity
Adopted by the State Dumaon June 11, 2008
Approved by the Federation Council
on June 18, 2008

Chapter 1. General Provisions
Article 1. Purposes and scope of this Federal Law
1. The purposes of this Federal Law are:
1) Establishment of the legal basis for measurement uniformity assurance in
the Russian Federation;2) Protection of the rights and legitimate interests of the citizens, the public
and state from negative consequences of invalid measurement results;
3) Satisfaction of the needs of citizens, the public and state in obtaining ofobjective, credible and consistent results of measurements when the latter are used inorder to ensure protection of citizens‟ life and health, preservation of the environment,
fauna and flora, maintenance of defence and safety of the state, including economic
safety;4) Assistance to economic development of the Russian Federation and toscientific and technological progress.
2. This Federal Law regulates the relations arising at performance ofmeasurements, establishment and observance of requirements to measurements,
quantity units, measurement standards of quantity units, reference materials,
measuring instruments, application of reference materials, measuring instruments,

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measurement procedures (methods), and also at realization of assurance ofmeasurement uniformity provided by the legislation of the Russian Federation on
assurance of measurement uniformity, including performance of work and renderingof services on assurance of measurement uniformity.
3. The sphere of state regulation of assurance of measurement uniformity
extends to measurements for which, with the purposes provided by part 1 of this
Article, obligatory requirements are established and which are carried out at:
1) Realization of activity in the field of public health;2) Realization of veterinary activity;
3) Realization of activity in the field of preservation of the environment;
4) Realization of activity on safety at emergency situations;5) Performance of work aimed at maintenance of safe working conditions andinsurance of labor protection;6) Realization of industrial inspection over observance of established by thelegislation of the Russian Federation industrial safety requirements to the operation ofdangerous industrial objects;
7) Realization of trade and goods exchange operations, performance of work on
prepackaging of products;8) Performance of state accounting operations;
9) Rendering of postal services and recording of volume of telecommunication
services rendered by communication operators;
10)

Realization of activity in the field of defence and state safety;

11)

Realization of geodetic and cartographical activity;

12)

Realization of activity in the field of hydrometeorology;

13)

Carrying out of bank, tax and customs operations;14)

Performance of work of assessment of conformity of industrial products

and products of other kinds and also other objects to obligatory requirements
established by the legislation of the Russian Federation;
15)

Carrying out of official sports competitions, ensuring of preparation ofhigh-class sportsmen;
16)

Performance of commissions of court, of bodies of public prosecutors, ofstate executive power bodies;
17)

Realization of activities of the state control (supervision).

4. The measurements provided by the Russian Federation legislation ontechnical regulation are also related to the sphere of state regulation on assurance ofmeasurement uniformity.

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5. The sphere of state regulation of assurance of measurement uniformity
extends also over quantity units, measurement standards of quantity units, referencematerials

andmeasuring instruments

for

which

obligatory requirements are

established.
6. Obligatory requirements to measurements, measurement standards ofquantity units, reference materials and measuring instruments shall be established by
the legislation of the Russian Federation on assurance of measurement uniformity andthe legislation of

the Russian Federation ontechnical regulation. Obligatory

requirements to quantity units, performance of work and (or) to rendering of services
on assurance of measurement uniformity shall be established by the legislation of theRussian Federation on assurance of measurement uniformity.
7. Special features of assurance of measurement uniformity at realization ofactivities in the field of defence and state safety shall be established by theGovernment of the Russian Federation.

Article 2. Main concepts
Used for the purposes of this Federal Law are the following main concepts:
1) Attestationofmeasurement

procedures(methods)–

researchandconfirmation of conformity of measurement procedures (methods) to the establishedmetrological requirements to measurements;
2) Putting into operation of a measuring instrument – documentally proved in
the established procedure readiness of a measuring instrument for use according to
its intent;
3) State metrological supervision – surveillance in the sphere of state
regulation of assurance of measurement uniformity, carried out by the authorizedFederal executive power bodies and consisting in regular supervision of observance ofobligatory requirements, established by the legislation of the Russian Federation, andalso in taking actions, established by the legislation of the Russian Federation, for theoffence revealed during supervising actions;4) State primary measurement standard of quantity unit – state measurement
standard of quantity unit, providing reproduction, storage and transfer of the quantity
unit with the highest accuracy in the Russian Federation, approved in this quality inthe prescribed manner and applied as initial in the territory of the Russian Federation;5) State measurement standard of quantity unit – measurement standard ofquantity unit being in Federal property;36) Quantity unit – the fixed value of quantity accepted for unit of the given
quantity and applied to quantitative expression of homogeneous quantities with it;7) Measurement uniformity–

measurement

conditions

when

results ofmeasurement are expressed in quantity units, admitted for use in the RussianFederation, and accuracy characteristics do not exceed the established limits;
8) Measurement – set of operations to be carried out for determination ofquantity values;9) Tests of reference materials or measuring instruments for the purpose oftype approval–

activities related todefining of

metrologicaland technicalcharacteristics of the same kind of reference materials or measuring instruments;
10)

Calibration of measuring instruments – set of operations to be carriedout in order to determine the conventionally true values of the metrologicalcharacteristics of measuring instruments;
11)

Procedure (method) of measurements – set of specifically described

operations, the performance of which allows to obtain measurement results with theestablished indices of accuracy;
12)

Metrological service – structural division of the central office of thefederal executive authority and (or) its regional body, the legal entity or structuraldivision of the legal entity or association of legal entities, workers of legal entity, selfemployed entrepreneur, organizing and (or) performing work on assurance ofmeasurement uniformity and (or) rendering services in assurance of measurement
uniformity;
13)

Metrological expertise – analysis and assessment of correctness of anestablishment and observance of metrological requirements with reference to theobject which is subject to expertise. Metrological expertise is carried out on obligatory(obligatory metrological expertise) or voluntary basis;
14)

Metrologicalrequirements–

requirements

tocharacteristics(parameters) of measurements, measurement standards of quantity units, referencematerials,

measuring

instruments,

and

also

to

conditions

at

which

these

characteristics (parameters) should be ensured in case those characteristics andconditions influence the results and accuracy indices of measurements;
15)

Obligatory

metrologicalrequirements–

metrologicalrequirements

established by normative legislative acts of the Russian Federation and liable toobservance in the territory of the Russian Federation;
16)

Transfer of quantity unit – revaluation of quantity unit stored by ameasuring instrument to a quantity unit reproduced by the standard of the given
measurement standard of quantity unit or by the reference material;

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17)

Verification of measuring instruments (further referred to as verification)– set of operations to be carried out for the purpose of conformity of measuring
instruments to metrological requirements;
18)

Traceability – affinity of the measurement standard of a quantity unit or

measuring instrument

consisting intheir documentally proved

statementonconnection with the State primary standard of the corresponding quantity unit bymeans of comparison of measurement standards of quantity units, verification, or
calibration of measuring instruments;
19)

Direct measurement – measurement at which a measurand value isobtained directly from a measuring instrument;
20)
operations

Comparison of measurement standards of quantity units – set of
establishingacorrelation

betweenquantity

units,

reproducedbymeasurement standards of quantity units of the same level of accuracy and in thesame conditions;21)

Measuring instrument – technical device intended for measurements;

22)

Reference material – sample of substance (material) with the values of

one and more quantities characterizing the composition or property of this substance(material) established by test results;
23)

Technical systems and devices with measuring functions – technicalsystems and devices which along with their basic functions carry out measuringfunctions;24)

Technical requirements to measuring instruments – requirements which

define specific features of design of measuring instruments (without restriction of theirtechnical

perfection)

for

the

purposeofpreservation

of

their

metrologicalcharacteristics while measuring instruments are in operation, achievement of
reliability of measurement result, prevention of non-sanctioned adjustments andinterventions, and also the requirements providing safety and electromagnetic
compatibility of measuring instruments;
25)

Type of measuring instruments – set of measuring instruments intended

for measurements of the same quantities, expressed in the same quantity units basedon the same principle of action, having an identical design and made according to thesame technical specifications;26)

Type of reference materials – set of reference materials of the same

purpose, prepared of the same substance (material) according to the same technicalspecifications;27)

Approval of type of reference materials or type of measuring instruments– documented decision in prescribed manner on a recognition of conformity of5reference materials type or measuring instruments type to metrological and technicalrequirements (characteristics) on the basis of test results of reference materials or
measuring instruments for the purpose of type approval;
28)

Pre-packaged products – any commodity packaged in absence of abuyer, so that the packaged contents cannot be changed without its opening or
deformation, and the mass, volume, length, area or other quantities defining theamount of product containing in the package, should be labelled on the package;
29)

Measurement standard of quantity unit – a technical mean designated

for reproduction, storage and transfer of quantity unit.

Article 3. The legislation of the Russian Federation on
assurance of measurement uniformity
1. The legislation of the Russian Federation on assurance of measurement
uniformity is based on the Constitution of the Russian Federation and includes thisFederal Law, other Federal laws regulating the relations in the field of assurance of
uniformity of measurements, and also accepted in accordance with them othernormative legislative acts of the Russian Federation.
2. Provisions of Federal laws and other normative legislative acts of the RussianFederation, concerning the subject of regulation of this Federal Law, are applied in thepart which does not contradict this Federal Law.

Article 4.

International agreements of the Russian Federation

Should other regulations are established by the international agreement of theRussian Federation than those contained in the Russian Federation legislation on
assurance of measurement uniformity, the international agreement regulations shallbe applied thereby.

Chapter 2. Requirements to measurements, quantity units,measurement standards of quantity units, reference materials,
measuring instruments
Article 5. Requirements to measurements
1. The measurements concerning the sphere of state regulation of assurance ofmeasurement uniformity should be carried out in compliance with the certified

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(attested) measurement procedures (methods), except for measurement procedures(methods) intended for carrying out of direct measurements, with application of
measuring instruments of the approved type which passed verification. Measurement
results should be expressed in quantity units admitted to application in the RussianFederation.
2. Measurement procedures (methods) intended for carrying out of direct
measurements,

areincludedintheoperation

documentationformeasuring

instruments. Confirmation of conformity of these measurement procedures (methods)
to obligatory metrological requirements to measurements is provided in the process oftype approval of the given measuring instruments. In other cases, confirmation ofconformityofmeasurement

procedures(methods)

toobligatory

metrologicalrequirements to measurements is provided by attestation of measurement procedures(methods). Data on the certified measurement procedures (methods) are transferredin the Federal Information Fund on assurance of measurement uniformity by legal
entities and self-employed entrepreneurs that carried out the attestation.
3. Attestation of measurement procedures (methods) concerning the sphere ofstate regulation of assurance of measurement uniformity shall be carried out by
accredited in the prescribed manner legal entities and self-employed entrepreneurs in
the field of assurance of measurement uniformity.
4. The order of attestation of measurement procedures (methods) and theirapplication is established by the Federal executive power body which is carrying out
functions of development of state policy and normative and legal regulation in thefield of assurance of measurement uniformity.
5. The Federal executive power bodies, which are carrying out normative andlegal regulation in the scope of activities, which are mentioned in parts 3 and 4,
Article 1 of this Federal Law, in coordination with the Federal executive power body,which is carrying out functions of development of state policy and normative and legal
regulation in the field of assurance of measurement uniformity, define themeasurements

concerningthesphereofstate

regulationof

assuranceofmeasurement uniformity, and establish obligatory metrological requirements to them,including accuracy indices of measurements.
6. The Federal body of executive power, which is carrying out functions ofrendering of state services and management of state property in the field of assuranceof measurement uniformity, keeps a unified list of measurements concerning thesphere of state regulation of assurance of measurement uniformity.

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Article 6. Requirements to quantity units
1. Quantity units of the International System of Units, approved by the General
Conference of Weights and Measures and recommended by the International
Organization of Legal Metrology are applied in the Russian Federation. Some non-SI
units may be admitted for application in the Russian Federation by the Government of
the Russian Federation on equal terms with quantity units of the International System
of Units. The names of the quantity units, admitted for application in the RussianFederation, their symbols, rules of writing and rules of application shall be establishedby the Government of the Russian Federation.
2. The characteristics and parameters of products to be exported, including themeasuring instruments, may be expressed in quantity units stipulated by a contract
with the Customer.
3. Quantity units are transferred to measuring instruments, technical systems
and devices with measuring functions from measurement standards of quantity units
and reference materials.

Article 7. Requirements to measurement standards ofquantity units
1. Statemeasurement

standards ofquantity units

form

the

Base

of

Measurement Standards of the Russian Federation.
2.

State primary measurement standards of quantity units are not subject

to privatization.
3. Data on state measurement standards of quantity units are entered by theFederal executive power body, which is carrying out functions of rendering of stateservices and management of state property in the field of assurance of measurement
uniformity, in the Federal Information Fund on assurance of measurement uniformity.
4. State primary measurement standards of quantity units are kept and applied
at state scientific metrological institutes.
5. State primary measurement standards of quantity units are subject to theapproval by the Federal executive power body which is carrying out functions ofrendering of state services and management of state property in the field of assuranceof measurement uniformity.
6. State primary measurement standards of quantity units are subject tocomparison with measurement standards of quantity units of the International Bureauof Weights and Measures and also with national measurement standards of quantity

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units of other countries. The responsibility for timely providing of State primarymeasurement standard of quantity units for comparison shall be born by that statescientific metrological institute which keeps the given State primary measurement
standard of quantity unit.
7. Applied in the Russian Federation are measurement standards of quantity
units, which shall be traceable to State primary measurement standards ofcorresponding quantity units. In case the country does not have corresponding State
primary measurement

standards ofquantity units, traceability ofmeasuring

instruments used in the sphere of state regulation of assurance of measurement
uniformity shall be provided to national measurement standards of quantity units offoreign states.
8. The order of approval, maintenance, comparison and application of State
primary measurement standards of quantity units, the order of transfer of quantity
units from state measurement standards, the order of establishment of obligatory
requirements to measurement standards of quantity units used for assurance ofmeasurement uniformity inmeasurement

uniformity,

the sphere of

the

order

of

state regulationassessmentofof

assurance ofconformity

to

these

requirements, and also the order of their application are established by theGovernment of the Russian Federation.

Article 8. Requirements to reference materials
1. Reference materials are intended for reproduction, storage and transfer ofcharacteristics of composition or properties of substances (materials) expressed invalues of quantity units, admitted for application in the Russian Federation.
2. Reference materials of the approved types shall be used in the sphere ofstate regulation of assurance of measurement uniformity.

Article 9. Requirements to measuring instruments
1. In the sphere of state regulation of assurance of measurement uniformity
admitted to use are the measuring instruments of the approved type which havepassed verification according to the provisions of this Federal Law, and also providing
observance of obligatory requirements established by the legislation of the RussianFederation on assurance of measurement uniformity, including obligatory metrologicalrequirements to measurements, obligatory metrological and technical requirements tomeasuring instruments, and obligatory requirements established by the legislation of

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the

RussianFederationontechnical

regulation.

The

structureofobligatory

requirements to measuring instruments in necessary cases also includes requirements
to their components, the software and conditions of operation of measuring
instruments. Observance of obligatory requirements to conditions of operation of
measuring instruments during their application is mandatory.
2. The design of measuring instruments should be as such so that to provide
restriction of access to certain parts of measuring instruments (including the software)in order to prevent unsanctioned adjustment and intervention which can lead to
distortion of measurement results.
3. The order of identifying technical means as measuring instruments isestablished by the Federal executive power body which is carrying out functions ofdevelopment of state policy and normative legal regulation in the field of assurance ofmeasurement uniformity.

Article 10. Technical systems and devices with measuring functions
Obligatory requirements to technical systems and devices with measuringfunctions, and also forms of their conformity assessment with the specified
requirements are established by the Russian Federation legislation on technicalregulation.

Chapter 3. State regulation in the field of assurance ofmeasurement uniformity
Article 11. Forms of state regulation in the field of assurance ofmeasurement

uniformity

State regulation in the field of assurance of measurement uniformity is
executed in the following forms:
1) Type approval of reference materials or type of measuring instruments;
2) Verification of measuring instruments;
3) Metrological expertise;4) State metrological supervision;5) Attestation of measurement procedures (methods);
6) Accreditation of legal entities and self-employed entrepreneurs to perform
work and (or) render services in the field of assurance of measurement uniformity.

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Article 12. Approval of type of reference materials ortype of measuring instruments
1. Type approval of reference materials or type of measuring instruments
applied in the sphere of state regulation of assurance of measurement uniformity is
subject to obligatory approval. Accuracy indices, an interval between verifications ofmeasuring instruments, and also a verification procedure for the given type ofmeasuring

instrumentsareestablishedduringtype

approvalofmeasuring

instruments.
2. The decision on type approval of reference materials or type of measuring
instruments shall be taken by the Federal executive power body which is carrying out
functions of rendering of state services and management of state property in the fieldof assurance of measurement uniformity, on the basis of the positive results of testsof reference materials or measuring instruments for the purpose of type approval.
3. Type approval of reference materials or type of measuring instruments is
confirmed by type approval certificate of reference materials or type of measuring
instruments, issued by the Federal executive power body which is carrying out
functions of rendering of state services and management of state property in the fieldof assurance of measurement uniformity. The interval between verifications ofmeasuring instruments during the validity period of type approval certificate ofmeasuring instruments can be changed only by the Federal executive power bodywhich is carrying out functions of rendering of state services and management of state
property in the field of assurance of measurement uniformity.
4. The type approval mark is stamped on each sample of the approved type ofmeasuring instruments, on the documents accompanying the stated measuring
instruments and the documents accompanying the approved type of referencematerials.

The design of measuring instruments shall provide the location forstamping of this mark where it is visibly displayed. In certain cases when themeasuring instrument‟s design does not allow stamping of this mark directly on themeasuring instrument, it is stamped on the accompanying documents.
5. The tests of reference materials or measuring instruments for the purpose oftype approval shall be carried out by legal entities accredited in accordance with therules established in the field of assurance of measurement uniformity.
6. Data on the approved types of reference materials and types of measuring
instruments shall be included in the Federal Information Fund on assurance ofmeasurement uniformity.

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7. The procedure of testing of reference materials or measuring instruments forthe purpose of type approval, the procedure of approval of reference materials type ormeasuring instruments type, the procedure of issuing of type approval certificates ofreference materials or measuring instruments, of establishing and changing of thevalidity period of the specified certificates and an interval between two successive
verifications of measuring instruments, of requirements to type approval marks ofreference materials or type approval marks of measuring instruments and theprocedure of their stamping shall be established by the Federal executive power bodywhich is carrying out functions of development of state policy and normative and legal
regulation in the field of assurance of measurement uniformity. The procedure ofcarrying out of tests of reference materials or measuring instruments for the purposeof type approval and the procedure of approval of reference materials type ormeasuring instruments type are established taking into account the specific aspects ofthe manufacture of reference materials and measuring instruments (serial or singlepiece manufacture).
8. Legal entities and the self-employed entrepreneurs who are carrying out
development, product release, import into the territory of the Russian Federation, saleand use in the territory of the Russian Federation not intended for application in thesphere of state regulation of assurance of measurement uniformity of referencematerials and measuring instruments, can submit them for approval of referencematerials type or measuring instruments type on a voluntary basis.

Article 13. Verification of measuring instruments
1. The measuring instruments intended for application in the sphere of state
regulation of assurance of measurement uniformity are subject to initial verification
before putting into operation and after repair, and during their operation they are
subject to periodic verification. Legal entities and self-employed entrepreneurs using
measuring instruments in the sphere of state regulation of assurance of measurement
uniformity are obliged to present in due time these measuring instruments forverification.
2. Verification of measuring instruments is carried out by legal entities andself-employed entrepreneurs accredited in accordance with the rule established in thefield of assurance of measurement uniformity.
3. The list of measuring instruments that must be verified only by stateregional metrological centers accredited in accordance with the rule established in the12field of assurance of measurement uniformity shall be determined by the Governmentof the Russian Federation.
4. The results of verification of measuring instruments shall be confirmed byverification mark and (or) verification certificate. The design of measuring instruments
should provide location for stamping of verification mark where it is visibly displayed.
If the design of measuring instruments do not allow stamping this mark directly on ameasuring instrument, it is stamped on verification certificate.
5. The procedure of carrying out verification of measuring instruments,
requirements to verification mark and the content of verification certificate shall beestablished by the Federal body executive power, which is carrying out functions ofdevelopment of state policy and legal and normative regulation in the field ofassurance of measurement uniformity.
6. Data on results of verification of measuring instruments intended for
application in the sphere of state regulation of assurance of measurement uniformity
shall be entered in the Federal Information Fund on assurance of measurement
uniformity by legal entities and self-employed entrepreneurs which are carrying out
verification of measuring instruments.
7. The measuring instruments which are not intended for application in thesphere of state regulation of assurance of measurement uniformity can be verified on
a voluntary basis

Article 14. Metrological expertise
1. Requirements

tomeasurements,

referencematerials

andmeasuring

instruments, contained in drafts of normative legal acts of the Russian Federation, aresubject to obligatory metrological expertise. The conclusions of obligatory metrologicalexpertise concerning the specified requirements shall be considered by the Federal
executive power bodies establishing these acts. Obligatory metrological expertise of
requirements to measurements, reference materials and measuring instruments
contained in drafts of normative legal acts of the Russian Federation, shall be carriedout by state scientific metrological institutes.
2. Obligatory metrological expertise of standards, products, project and design,technological documentation and other objects shall be carried out also in the orderand the cases provided by the legislation of the Russian Federation. The mentioned
expertise shall be carried out by legal bodies and self-employed entrepreneurs
accredited in the prescribed manner in the field of assurance of measurement
uniformity.

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3. Theorderofcarrying

outof

obligatory

metrologicalexpertiseofrequirements to measurements, reference materials and measuring instruments
contained in drafts of normative legal acts of the Russian Federation, shall beestablished by the Federal executive power body which is carrying out functions ofdevelopment of state policy and normative legal regulation in the field of assurance ofmeasurement uniformity.
4. Metrological expertise of

products, projectand design, technologicaldocumentation and other objects can be carried out on a voluntary basis in relation towhich

obligatory metrological expertise is not provided by the legislation of theRussian Federation.

Article 15. State metrological supervision
1. The state metrological supervision shall include:1) Observance of obligatory requirements in the field of state regulation ofassurance of measurement uniformity to measurements, quantity units, and also tomeasurement standards of quantity units, reference materials, measuring instruments
during their release from manufacture, import to the territory of the RussianFederation, sale and application in the territory of the Russian Federation;
2) Availability and observance of the certified measurement procedures(methods);3) Observanceofobligatory

requirements

todeviationofquantityof

prepackaged products from the declared value.
2. State metrological supervision shall extend to activities of legal entities andself-employed entrepreneurs who are carrying out:
1) Measurements related to the sphere of state regulation of assurance ofmeasurement uniformity;
2) Release from manufacture intended for application in the field of state
regulation of assurance of measurement uniformity of measurement standards ofquantity units, reference materials and measuring instruments, and also their importto the territory of the Russian Federation, sale and application in the territory of theRussian Federation;
3) Prepackaging of goods.
3. Legal entities and self-employed entrepreneurs, who are carrying out therelease from manufacture intended for application in the sphere of state regulation ofassurance of measurement uniformity of measurement standards of quantity units,reference materials and measuring instruments, and also their import to the territory14

of the Russian Federation and sale, are obliged to notify of the given activities theFederal executive power body, which is carrying out functions of state metrologicalsupervision, not later than three months from the date of its realization. The
notification procedure shall be established by the Federal executive power body whichis carrying out functions of development of state policy and normative and legal
regulation in the field of assurance of measurement uniformity.
4. The obligatory requirements to deviation of quantity of prepackaged
products from the declared value on the package are established by technicalregulations. The technical regulations can also contain obligatory requirements toequipment used for packaging and control of packaging, rules of conformity
assessment of deviation of quantity of prepackaged products from the declared value,
obligatory requirements to packing, marking or labeling of prepackaged products andlabel rules.

Article 16. Federal executive power bodies which are carrying out
state metrological supervision
1. The state metrological supervision is carried out by the Federal executive
power body which is carrying out functions of state metrological supervision, and also
other Federal executive power bodies authorized by the President of the RussianFederation or the Government of the Russian Federation for realization of the given
kind of supervision in the prescribed scope of activity.
2. The procedure of state metrological supervision, interaction of the Federal
executive power bodies, which are carrying out state metrological supervision, andalso distribution of responsibilities between them shall be established within theirsphere of competence by the President of the Russian Federation or the Governmentof the Russian Federation. Distribution of authorities between the Federal executive
power bodies, which are carrying out state metrological supervision, should prevent
two or more Federal executive power bodies from having simultaneous responsibility
for supervising of observance of the same requirements by an entity under
supervision.

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Article 17. The rights and duties of officials during state metrologicalsupervision
1. The duty of carrying out of inspection during state metrological supervision
is assigned upon officials of Federal executive power bodies who are carrying out state
metrological supervision, and their territorial bodies.
2. The officials who are carrying out inspection provided by part 1 of this
Article, on condition that they present their official card and the order of the Federal
executive power body, which is carrying out state metrological supervision, about theinspection to be conducted, have the right:
1) to visit the sites (territories and premises) of legal entities and selfemployed entrepreneurs with the purpose of realization of state metrologicalsupervision during execution of official duties;2) to receive documents and the data necessary for carrying out of inspection.
3. The officials who are carrying out state metrological supervision are obliged:1) to check conformity of quantity units in use to quantity units admitted for
application in the Russian Federation;2) to check condition and application of measurement standards of quantity
units,

referencematerials

andmeasuring

instruments

with

the

purposeofestablishment of their conformity to obligatory requirements;
3) to check presence and observance of the certified measurement procedures(methods);
4) to check observance of obligatory requirements to measurements andobligatory requirements to deviation of quantity of the prepackaged products from thedeclared value.
5) to check observance of established notification procedure about the activities
specified in part 3, Article 15 of this Federal Law by legal entities and self-employed
entrepreneurs;6) to observe state, commercial, official and other secrets protected by the law.
4. At revealing of infringements the official, who is carrying out state
metrological supervision, is shall be obliged:1) to forbid release from manufacture, import to the territory of the RussianFederation and sale of reference materials and measuring instruments of not
approved types intended for application in the sphere of state regulation of assuranceof measurement uniformity of reference materials and measuring instruments which
are

not

correspondingtoobligatory

requirements(except

forreleasefrom

manufacture and import to the territory of the Russian Federation of reference

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materials or the measuring instruments intended for carrying out tests of referencematerials or measuring instruments with the purpose of type approval);
2) to forbid application of reference materials and measuring instruments of
not approved types or reference materials and the measuring instruments which are
not corresponding to obligatory requirements, and also non-verified measuring
instruments at performance of the measurements concerning the field of state
regulation of assurance of measurement uniformity;3) to affix on measuring instruments rejection mark in cases when themeasuring instrument does not comply with obligatory requirements;
4) to give obligatory instructions to execution and to establish terms of
elimination of violation established by the legislation of the Russian Federation of
obligatory requirements;
5) to forward materials about violations of requirements of the legislation of
the Russian Federation on assurance of measurement uniformity to judicial andinvestigating bodies, and also to the Federal executive power body, which is carryingout accreditation in the field of assurance of measurement uniformity, in cases
stipulated by the legislation of the Russian Federation;6) to apply other actions according to the legislation of the Russian Federation.
5. The form of rejection mark of measuring instruments and the order of its
affixing are established by the Federal executive power body which is carrying out
functions on development of state policy and legal regulation in the field of assuranceof measurement uniformity.

Chapter 4. Calibration of measuring instruments
Article 18. Calibration of measuring instruments
1. The measuring instruments which are not intended for application in thefield of state regulation of assurance of measurement uniformity can be calibrated on
a voluntary basis. Calibration of measuring instruments shall be carried out with theuse of measurement standards of quantity units traceable to the State primarymeasurement standards of corresponding quantity units, and in the absence ofcorresponding State primary measurement standards of quantity units – to national
measurement standards of quantity units of the foreign states.

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2. Legal entities and self-employed entrepreneurs carrying out calibration of
measuring instruments can be accredited in the field of assurance of measurement
uniformity on a voluntary basis.
3. Results of calibration of the measuring instruments executed by legal
entities or self-employed entrepreneurs accredited in accordance with the establishedprocedure in the field of assurance of measurement uniformity can be used atverification of measuring instruments in the order established by the Federal
executive power body carrying out functions on development of state policy and legal
regulation in the field of assurance of measurement uniformity.

Chapter 5. Accreditation in the field of assurance ofmeasurement uniformity
Article 19. Accreditation in the field of assurance ofmeasurement uniformity
1. Accreditation in the field of assurance of measurement uniformity is carriedout with the purpose of an official recognition of competence of the legal entity or selfemployed entrepreneur to perform works and (or) to render services in assurance ofmeasurement uniformity according to this Federal Law. The specified works and (or)services include:1) Attestation of procedures (methods) of measurements concerning the sphereof state regulation of assurance of measurement uniformity;2) Tests of reference materials or measuring instruments with the purpose oftype approval;
3) Verification of measuring instruments;
4) Obligatory metrological expertise of standards, products, project and design
and technological documentation and other objects, carried out in cases provided by
the legislation of the Russian Federation.
2. Accreditation in the field of assurance of measurement uniformity is carriedout on the basis of the following principles:
1) Voluntariness;
2) Competence and independence of experts involved in accreditation;3) Inadmissibility of holding credentials on accreditation and performance ofworks and (or) rendering of services, specified in part 1 of this Article;

184) Application of unified regulations of accreditation, their openness andavailability;
5) Provision of equal conditions to persons applying for accreditation;6) Inadmissibility of illegal restriction of rights of legal entities and selfemployed entrepreneurs being accredited for performance of works and (or) renderingof services in the field of assurance of measurement uniformity to all consumers(customers) and in the entire territory of the Russian Federation.
3. Regulations concerning the system of accreditation in the field of assuranceof measurement uniformity, defining the Federal executive power body, which is
carrying out accreditation in the field of assurance of measurement uniformity, andcontaining structure of the system, an order of accreditation, an order of definition ofof accreditation criteria, an order of certification of experts on accreditation invited ona contractual basis by the Federal executive power body, which is carrying out
accreditation in the field of assurance of measurement uniformity, and an order ofpayment of works of the specified experts, shall be approved by the Government of
the Russian Federation.

Chapter 6. Federal Information Fund on assurance ofmeasurement uniformity
Article 20. Federal Information Fund on assurance ofmeasurement uniformity
1. The normative legal acts of the Russian Federation, normative documents,
information databases, international documents, international agreements of theRussian Federation in the field of assurance of measurement uniformity, data on thecertified measurement procedures (methods), unified list of measurements concerning
the sphere of state regulation of assurance of measurement uniformity, data on statemeasurement standards of quantity units, data on the approved types of referencematerials or types of measuring instruments, data on results of verification of
measuring instruments constitute the Federal Information Fund on assurance ofmeasurement uniformity. Management of the Federal Information Fund on assuranceof measurement uniformity and granting of data contained in it is organized by theFederal executive power body which is carrying out functions of rendering of stateservices and management of state property in the field of assurance of measurement
uniformity.

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2. Granting of documents and data containing in the Federal Information Fundon assurance of measurement uniformity is provided to interested persons in an order
established by part 3 of this Article, except for cases when in interests of preservationof state, commercial, official, and (or) other secrets protected by the law such accessto the specified documents and data should be restricted.
3. The order of creation and management of the Federal Information Fund on
assurance of measurement uniformity, transfer of data to it and granting of
documents and data containing in it shall be established by the Federal executive
power body which is carrying out functions of development of state policy andnormative and legal regulation in the field of assurance of measurement uniformity.

Chapter 7. Organizational bases of assurance ofmeasurement uniformity
Article 21. Federal executive power bodies, state scientificmetrological institutes, state regional centres of metrology,
metrological services, organizations carrying out activity on assuranceof measurement uniformity
1. Activity on assurance of measurement uniformity is based on the legislationof the Russian Federation on assurance of measurement uniformity and is carried outby:1) The Federal executive power bodies which are carrying out functions of state
metrological supervision, development of state policy and normative and legal
regulation, rendering of state services, management of state property in the field ofassurance of measurement uniformity;2) Subordinated to the Federal executive power body, which is carrying out
functions of rendering of state services and management of state property in the fieldof assurance of measurement uniformity, state scientific metrological institutes andstate regional centres of metrology;3) The State service of time, frequency and determination of the Earth‟srotation parameters, the State service of standard reference data on physicalconstants and properties of substances and materials, the State service of referencematerials of composition and properties of substances and materials, the managementof which is carried out by the Federal executive power body which is carrying out

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functions of rendering of state services and management of state property in the fieldof assurance of measurement uniformity;4) Metrologicalservices,

includinglegalentitiesandself-employed

entrepreneurs accredited in accordance with the established procedure in the field ofassurance of measurement uniformity.
2. The main objectives of the Federal executive power bodies which arecarrying out functions of development of state policy and normative and legal
regulation, rendering of the state services, management of state property in the fieldof assurance of measurement uniformity and state metrological supervision, are:1) Development of state policy and normative and legal regulation in the fieldof assurance of measurement uniformity, and also coordination of activity on
normative and legal regulation in this field;
2) Organization of interaction with state authorities of foreign states andinternational organizations in the field of assurance of measurement uniformity;3) Realization of state policy in the field of assurance of measurement
uniformity;4) Activity coordination of realization of state policy in the field of assurance ofmeasurement uniformity;5) Realization of state metrological supervision and coordination of activities on
its realization.
3. The Government of the Russian Federation shall carry out distribution of
authorities between the Federal executive power bodies, which are carrying out
functions of development of state policy and normative and legal regulation, renderingof state services, management of state property in the field of assurance ofmeasurement uniformity and state metrological supervision.
4. The main goals of the state scientific metrological institutes are:1) Carrying

out

of

fundamental

andappliedscientificinvestigations,experimental developments and realization of scientific and technical activity in thefield of assurance of measurement uniformity;2) Development, improvement, maintenance, comparison and use of State
primary measurement standards of quantity units;
3) Transfer of quantity units from State primary measurement standards ofquantity units;
4) Participation in development of normative documents drafts in the field ofassurance of measurement uniformity;215) Carrying out of obligatory metrological expertise of requirements tomeasurements, reference materials and measuring instruments contained in drafts ofnormative legal acts of the Russian Federation;
6) Creation and keeping of the Federal Information Fund on assurance ofmeasurement uniformity and granting of documents and data containing in it;7) Participation in international cooperation in the field of metrology.
5. The state scientific metrological institutes can also perform other works and(or) render other services on assurance of measurement uniformity.
6. The main objectives of the state regional centres of metrology are:1) Carrying out of verification of measuring instruments according to theestablished scope of accreditation;2) Improvement, maintenance and application of state measurement standardsof quantity units used for maintenance of traceability of other measurement standardsof quantity units and measuring instruments to State primary measurement standardsof quantity units.
7. The state regional centres of metrology can also perform other works and(or) render other services related to assurance of measurement uniformity.
8. The State service of time, frequency and determination of the Earth‟srotation parameters shall carry out scientific and technical, and metrological activity
on reproduction of a national time scale and standard frequencies, on determination of
the Earth‟s rotation parameters, and also on ensurance of the needs of the State instandard signals of time and frequency and in information about the Earth‟s rotation
parameters.
9. The State service of reference materials of composition and properties ofsubstances and materials shall carry out activity on development, testing andimplementation of reference materials of composition and properties of substancesand materials for the purpose of assurance of measurement uniformity on the basis ofapplication of the specified reference materials, and also on keeping of corresponding
sections of Federal Information Fund on assurance of measurement uniformity.
10.

The State service of standard reference data on physical constants andproperties of substances and materials shall carry out activity on working out andintroduction of standard reference data on physical constants and properties ofsubstances and materials in science and technology for the purpose of assurance ofmeasurement uniformity on the basis of application of the specified standard
reference data, and also on keeping of corresponding sections of the Federal
Information Fund on assurance of measurement uniformity.

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11.The State service of time, frequency and determination of the Earth‟srotation parameters, State service of standard reference data on physical constants
and properties of substances and materials, State service of reference materials ofcomposition and properties of substances and materials shall carry out activity
according to regulations on them, approved by the Government of the RussianFederation.

Article 22. Metrological services of Federal executive power bodies
1. The Federal executive power bodies which are carrying out functions in thescope of activity, specified in parts 3 and 4, Article 1 of this Federal Law, create
metrological services in the prescribed manner and (or) define officials with the
purpose of organization of activity on assurance of measurement uniformity within
their competence.
2. The rights and duties of metrological bodies of the Federal executive power
bodies, an order of organization and coordination of their activity are defined byprovisions on metrological services, confirmed by heads of the Federal executive
power bodies which created metrological services, in coordination with the Federal
executive power body which is carrying out functions of development of state policy
and normative and legal regulation in the field of assurance of measurement
uniformity.

Chapter 8. The liability for violation of the legislation of the RussianFederation on assurance of measurement uniformity
Article 23.

The responsibility of legal entities, their heads andworkers, self-employed entrepreneurs

Legal entities, their heads and workers, self-employed entrepreneurs that haveadmitted violation of the legislation of the Russian Federation on assurance ofmeasurement uniformity, have had unjustified hindrance in realization of state
metrological supervision, and (or) non-execution, at the stated time, of prescripts of
the Federal executive power bodies, concerning elimination of the revealed violations,which are carrying out state metrological supervision, shall bear responsibility,
according to the legislation of the Russian Federation.

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Article 24. Liability of officials
1. Officials of the Federal executive power bodies which are carrying out
functions of development of state policy and normative and legal regulation, renderingof state services, management of state property in the field of assurance ofmeasurement uniformity, and also the Federal executive power bodies which arecarrying out state metrological supervision, and the organizations subordinated tothem shall bear liability, according to the legislation of the Russian Federation, forviolations of the legislation of the Russian Federation on assurance of measurement
uniformity.
2. Actions (inaction) of officials can be appealed against, according to thelegislation of the Russian Federation. The appeal of actions (inaction) of officials does
not stop execution of their prescripts, except for the cases established by thelegislation of the Russian Federation.

Chapter 9.

Financing in the field of assurance ofmeasurement uniformity

Article 25. Financing in the field of assurance of measurement
uniformity at the expense of the federal budget
Financed at the expense of the federal budget are expenditures on:1) Development, improvement, maintenance of State primary measurement
standards of quantity units;
2) Development and improvement of state measurement standards of quantity
units;
3) Fundamental investigations in the field of metrology;4) Performance of works connected with activity of the Sate service of time,
frequency and determination of the Earth‟s rotation parameters, the State service ofstandard reference data on physical constants and properties of substances andmaterials, the State service of reference materials of composition and properties ofsubstances and materials;
5) Developmentof normative documents inthe field of assurance ofmeasurement uniformity, which shall be approved by the Federal executive power
bodies;6) Execution of works on the state metrological supervision;247) Carrying out of comparison of State primary measurement standards ofquantity units with measurement standards of quantity units of the International
Bureau of Weights and Measures and national measurement standards of quantity
units of foreign states;
8) Payment of fees of the Russian Federation in international organizations on
metrology;
9) Creation and keeping of the Federal Information Fund on assurance ofmeasurement uniformity;
10)

Payment of works of experts on accreditation invited on a contractual

basis by the Federal executive power body which is carrying out accreditation in thefield of assurance of measurement uniformity.

Article 26. Payment of works and (or) services on assurance ofmeasurement

uniformity

1. Works and (or) services on carrying out of obligatory metrological expertiseof requirements containing in drafts of normative legal acts of the Russian Federation
to measurements, reference materials and measuring instruments, on transfer ofquantity units from the state measurement standards of quantity units and verificationof the measuring instruments included in the list of measuring instruments which
verification is carried out only by accredited state regional centres of metrology in thefield of assurance of measurement uniformity, are paid at regulated prices in an order
established by the Government of the Russian Federation.
2. Works and (or) services of carrying out of tests of reference materials or
measuring instruments with the purpose of type approval, attestation of measurement
procedures (methods), metrological expertise specified in parts 2 and 4 of Article 14of this Federal Law, on verification of measuring instruments not included in the list ofmeasuring instruments, specified in part 1 of this Article, calibration of measuring
instruments shall be paid by interested persons according to terms of the concluded
agreements (contracts) if not provided otherwise by the legislation of the RussianFederation.

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Chapter 10. Final provisions
Article 27. Final provisions
1. The normative legal acts of the Russian Federation provided by this Federal
Law, except for the normative legal acts of the Russian Federation concerning thelegislation of the Russian Federation on technical regulation, should be acceptedwithin two years from the date of coming into force of this Federal Law.
2. Before the day of coming into force of this Federal Law the Federal executive
power bodies which are carrying out normative legal regulation in the areas ofactivity, specified in part 3 of Article 1 of this Federal Law, define, within theircompetence, lists of measurements, concerning the sphere of state regulation ofassurance of measurement uniformity, in agreement with the Federal executive power
body which is carrying out functions of development of state policy and normative andlegal regulation in the field of assurance of measurement uniformity.
3. Normative legal acts of the Government of the Russian Federation, and also
metrological rules and norms accepted to execute the Law of the Russian Federation
dated April 27th, 1993 No. 4871-1 “On Assurance of Measurement Uniformity”, shall
operate in the part not contradicting to this Federal Law, from the date of coming into
force of this Federal Law and before the day of coming into force of normative legal
acts of the Russian Federation provided by this Federal Law.
4. The documents issued according to metrological rules and norms, specifiedin part 3 of this Article, shall be valid until the date of expiry.

Article 28. On recognition of becoming invalid of certain legal acts
(provisions of legal acts) of the Russian Federation
From the date of coming into force of this Federal Law to recognize as becoming
invalid:1) The Law of the Russian Federation dated April 27th, 1993, No. 4871-1 “OnAssurance of Measurement Uniformity” (Bulletin of the Congress of the People‟s
Deputies of the Russian Federation, 1993, No.23, Art.811);
2) The Decision of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation, dated Aprilth

27 , 1993, No.4872-1 “On Enactment of the Law of the Russian Federation „On
Assurance of Measurement Uniformity‟” (Bulletin of the Congress of People‟s Deputiesof the Russian Federation, 1993, No.23, Art.812);

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3) Article 7 of the Federal Law dated January 10 th, 2003, No. 15-FZ “On entry
of changes and amendments in some legal acts of the Russian Federation inconnection with adoption of the Federal Law „On Licensing of Certain Types of Activity)(Collected Legislation of the Russian Federation, 2003, No.2, Art.167).

Article 29. Coming into force of this Federal Law
This Federal Law comes into force upon the expiry of one hundred and eightydays after the day of its official publication.
D.Medvedev,
President of the Russian Federation

Moscow, Kremlin
26 June 2008
No.102-FZ

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