APPROVED by
Order of the Federal Agency
on Technical Regulating and Metrology
No. 516 dated April 30, 2015
REGULATIONS
on the Department of Metrology
of the Federal Agency on Technical Regulating and Metrology
- GENERAL PROVISIONS
The Department of Metrology (the "Department") is a structural unit of the Federal Agency on Technical Regulating and Metrology (the "Agency") that performs the functions of the Agency for Ensuring Measurement Uniformity in the system of the Agency, in the sectors of the national economy, and international activities determined by Decree of the Government of Russia No. 294 dated June 17, 2004, "On Approval of the Regulations on the Federal Agency on Technical Regulating and Metrology" (the "Decree").
The activities of the Department are guided by the Constitution of Russia, international treaties of Russia, federal constitutional laws, federal laws, decrees of the President of Russia and the Government of Russia, Regulations on the Federal Agency, acts of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia (the "Minpromtorg of Russia") and the Agency, and these Regulations.
The Department performs the functions assigned to it directly or in cooperation with the structural units of the Agency and with the involvement of subordinate research institutes, enterprises, institutions, and territorial bodies of the Agency in accordance with the approved procedure.
The Department is managed by a head who is appointed and dismissed by the Head of the Agency.
The Head of the Department reports directly to the Deputy Head of the Agency in accordance with the approved distribution of responsibilities for coordinating the activities of the Central Office of the Agency.
Deputy heads of the Department and employees of the Department are appointed and dismissed by the Head of the Agency on the recommendation of the Head of the Department.
The structure of the Department includes the following divisions:
Division of Legal Metrology
Division of State Metrological Service
Division of Applied Metrology
The structure and the staffing table of the Department are approved by the Head of the Agency.
The Department monitors the activities of the following
federal state unitary enterprises subordinate to the Agency:
The Mendeleev All-Russian Research Institute of Metrology
All-Russian Research Institute of Metrological Service
All-Russian Research Institute of Optical and Physical Measurements
All-Russian Research Institute of Physical, Engineering, and Radiotechnical Measurements
All-Russian Research Institute of Flow Metering
Siberian Research Institute of Metrology
Ural Research Institute of Metrology
State regional centers of standardization, metrology, and testing subordinate to the Agency in terms of:
Certification of measuring instruments in accordance with the approved scope of accreditation
Improvement, maintenance, and use of state reference standards of values units used to ensure the uniformity of other reference standards of values units and measuring instruments to state primary reference standards of values units
The competence of the Agency includes the following issues defined by the Decree:
- The management of the activities of the State Metrological Service, the State Service for Standard Frequency, Time, and Determination of Parameters of Rotation of the Earth, the State Service for Standard Reference Data on the Physical Constants and Properties of Substances and Materials, the State Service for Standard Specimens Relating to Composition and Properties of Substances and Materials
- Maintaining the Federal Information Collection for Ensuring Measurement Uniformity and providing information contained therein
- Attribution of a technical device to measuring instruments in accordance with the approved procedure
- Setting intervals between verifications of measuring instruments
- Determination of general metrological requirements for measuring instruments, methods, and results
- Interregional and intersectoral coordination of activities in the field of ensuring measurement uniformity
- Making a decision on approval of the type of standard specimens or the type of measuring instruments
- Issuance of certificates of approval of the type of standard specimens or the type of measuring instruments
- Organization of verification of measuring instruments in Russia in accordance with the approved procedure
- Organization of expertise and preparation of opinions on draft federal target programs as well as intersectoral and interstate scientific, technical, and innovative programs in accordance with the approved procedure within its competence
- Receiving and registering notifications of the beginning of implementation by legal entities and individual entrepreneurs of certain types of work and services according to the list approved by the Government of Russia
- Organization of mandatory metrological examination of the requirements for measurements, standard specimens, and measuring instruments contained in draft regulatory legal acts of Russia
- Approval of state primary reference standards of values units
- MAIN OBJECTIVES AND FUNCTIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT
The main objective of the Department is to ensure measurement uniformity by forming and implementing a scientific and technical policy in the field of metrology based on the results of studying the metrological needs of the country and analyzing the development of metrology in the world community.
Based on the main objective, the Department performs the following functions:
1 Heading the metrological service of the Agency
2 Organization of the analysis of the level of measurement uniformity, the state of the measuring instruments used in the country, and the degree of satisfaction of current and future needs for such instruments by types and areas of measurement
3 Organization, conducting, and participation in the development of forecasts, long-term, medium-term, and short-term work plans to provide measurement uniformity in the country as well as in the development of programs in the field of metrology and metrological support
4 Participation in regulatory and legal activities of the Agency
5 Participation in creating conditions for improving the efficiency of scientific and technical activities of metrological research institutes, pursuing a policy in the interests of developing priority areas of scientific research, monitoring the implementation of thematic R&D plans in the field of ensuring measurement uniformity
6 Formation of the main directions of fundamental research in the field of metrology, preparation of proposals for the establishment of values units allowed for use in the territory of Russia, preparation for approval and storage of state reference standards of values units, development and improvement of the state reference standards base, organization of the transfer of values units sizes from state reference standards, participation in organizing international comparisons of state reference standards
7 Preparation and implementation of measures for improving the reference standards base and conducting comparisons of reference standards in organizations subordinate to the Agency
8 Definition of general metrological requirements for measuring instruments, methods, and results of measurements, development and improvement of the legislative and regulatory framework for ensuring measurement uniformity
9 Control and coordination of activities of the State Service for Standard Frequency, Time, and Determination of Parameters of Rotation of the Earth, the State Service for Standard Specimens Relating to Composition and Properties of Substances and Materials, and the State Service for Standard Reference Data on the Physical Constants and Properties of Substances and Material as well as provision of methodological guidance on metrological services of federal executive bodies of Russia and legal entities
10 Work on receiving and registering notifications of the beginning of implementation by legal entities and individual entrepreneurs of certain types of work and services according to the list approved by the Government of Russia
11 Work on the methodological organization of tests for the purpose of approving the type of standard specimens or the type of measuring instruments, maintenance of the Federal Information Collection for Ensuring Measurement Uniformity and provision of the information contained therein
12 The management of the operation of calibration systems and systems for voluntary certification of measuring instruments
13 Participation in the activities related to the competence of the Department of Administration and External Relations for the training and education of managing staff of the Department, managing staff of metrological research institutes as well as implementation of work on civil defense and special training
14 Coordination and control over the effective use of fixed assets on the balance sheet of state scientific metrological institutes in cooperation with the Department of Budget Planning, State Property, and Social and Technical Support, participation in the governing the procedure of material and technical support of these enterprises
15 Organization of work on international and regional cooperation in the field of metrology in cooperation with the Department of Administration and External Relations, formation of a unified scientific and technical policy within international cooperation on metrology on a multilateral and bilateral basis, representation in international and regional metrological organizations, and the implementation of international agreements
16 Organization of scientific and technical propaganda and information support of activities in the field of metrology in cooperation with the Department of Information Management and Analysis
17 Provision of functioning and carrying out works on improvement of the automated information system of inventory of results of measuring instruments verification
18 Preparation of the opinions of the Agency in response to requests of legislative and executive bodies, public organizations, the press, and citizens on the issues within the competence of the Department
19 Organization of mandatory metrological expertise of the requirements to measurements, standard specimens, and measuring instruments contained in the draft regulatory legal acts of Russia
20 Organization of implementation of federal target programs in terms of the work assigned to the Department
21 Organization of participation of the state scientific metrological institutes in the development and expertise of sections for metrological support of the federal target programs
22 Planning the activities of the Scientific and Technical Commission on Metrology and Measuring Instrumentation of the Agency, monitoring of the execution of its orders
23 Preparation and implementation of measures to improve the base of secondary reference standards and organization of their interlaboratory comparisons
24 Organization of joint exhibitions in the field of metrology held by the Agency
25 Pursuing a unified technical policy in the state regional centers for standardization of metrology and testing aimed at development and improvement of the metrological base of organizations, introduction of advanced automation methods in verification activities
26 Review, analysis, and coordination of annual plans of provision of equipment submitted by the state regional centers for standardization, metrology, and testing and monitoring their implementation
27 Participation in work of the Board of Directors and all-Russian meetings of Directors of state regional centers for standardization, metrology, and testing
28 Check of the activities of regional centers for standardization, metrology, and testing on complaints from legal entities and individuals regarding metrological activities and monitoring the implementation of decisions made based on the results of these inspections
III. RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS
The Head of the Department, their deputies, heads of divisions, and specialists are responsible for exercising the rights and duties of the Department and for implementing the objectives and functions assigned to it within the approved distribution of duties in accordance with their job descriptions.
The Head of the Department is obliged to manage the activities of the Department and organize the performance of the functions assigned to it.
The Head of the Department is entitled to:
- Hold meetings on the issues within the competence of the Department, instruct subordinate state metrological institutes, bodies of the State Metrological Service, conduct an independent correspondence on the issues of ensuring measurement uniformity in accordance with the approved procedure
- Involve specialists from other divisions of the Agency, ministries (departments), enterprises, scientific and technical societies, associations, and other organizations in coordination with the relevant supervisors of the specialists of such other divisions of the Agency to solve certain tasks assigned to the Department
- Distribute responsibilities among the employees of the Department
- Submit to the managing staff of the Agency the issues related to the areas of activities of the Department and its interaction with other divisions of the Agency
- Receive materials from the departments (divisions) of the Agency on the issues within the competence of the Agency
- Represent the Agency in Minpromtorg of Russia, state and public organizations, enterprises, and institutions on the issues within the competence of the Department
The Department is entitled to have a round seal with its name and its own file register.
- RESPONSIBILITY
The responsibility of the Department for proper execution of work included in the scope of its objectives rests with the Head of the Department and their deputies (according to the approved distribution of duties).
The Head of the Department bears personal responsibility for the performance of the objectives and functions assigned to the Department as well as for:
- Timely and high-quality performance of work assigned to the Department by the orders or instructions from management staff of the Agency
- Selection and placement of personnel in the Department
- State of labor discipline in the Department
The duties of the deputy heads of the Department and other employees of the Department are set out in their job descriptions.
- INTERACTION WITH DEPARTMENTS OF THE CENTRAL OFFICE AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS OF THE AGENCY
The Department interacts with other structural divisions of the Central Office and territorial bodies of the Agency, subordinate enterprises, and institutions to perform its duties in accordance with this Regulation and the orders of the Agency.
Interaction is carried out in accordance with the regulations on structural divisions, orders assigning the topics and issues to the divisions of the Agency, operational instructions of management as well as methodological documents on the procedure for carrying out work in the Agency approved in accordance with the approved procedure.
Disputes on the limits of competence of the Department are settled by the deputy heads of the Agency according to subordination.
- ORGANIZATION OF ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT
The Department is managed by the Head of the Department who is appointed and dismissed by the Head of the Federal Agency.
The Head of the Department has deputies, who are appointed and dismissed in accordance with the approved procedure by the Head of the Federal Agency on the recommendation of the Head of the Department.
Deputy heads of the Department, heads of divisions, employees of the Department are appointed and dismissed by the order of the Federal Agency on the recommendation of the Head of the Department and perform their duties in accordance with their job descriptions.
Deputy heads of the Department organize work on the performance of functions of the Department in accordance with their job descriptions.
In the absence of the Head of the Department, their functions and powers are fully performed by one of their deputies.
