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the European Community in particular financially participates in the
research programs.
Structure
Each member (the national metrology organizations) appoints a
delegate; all the delegates constitute the General Assembly of
EUROMET which meets at least once a year to debate its aims and
objectives. EUROMET’s president is elected for two years and he
provides a secretariat staff.
Technical activities
There are 11 spheres of activities:
– mass (force and pressure included);
– length (dimensional measurements included);
– electricity and magnetism (direct current and quantum metrology,
low frequency, high frequencies);
– time and frequency;
– thermometry (thermal properties and humidity included);
– ionizing radiations (dosimetry, radioactivity, metrology of neutrons);
– photometry and radiometry (fibronics included);
– flowmetry (properties of fluids included);
– acoustics, ultrasonics and vibrations (accelerometry included);
– chemical metrology (gas, organic and inorganic, electrochemistry);
– interdisciplinary metrology.
A “technical chairman” is elected by the committee in each
subject field for a two-year mandate, which is renewable once. His
main task is to coordinate the projects which are presented by the
“contact person”, a specialist in the sphere of activities in question
who has been appointed by the national organizations of metrology.
Each collaborative project in a given activity is classified in one
of the following categories:
– cooperation in research;
– intercomparison of measurement standards;
– traceability;
– consultation on facilities.
On 1st May 2004, 256 projects were in progress; 368 have been
previously carried through and have been concluded with a report.
Four to five participants on average have collaborated in each project.
It can easily be imagined that an important role in the European
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