General information

COOMET is a regional organization originally establishing cooperation of national metrology institutions of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. It was founded in June, 1991 and renamed as Euro-Asian Cooperation of National Metrological Institutions in May, 2000. COOMET is officially recognized as a regional metrology organization (RMO) and a regional legal metrology organization (RLMO). COOMET is open for any metrology institutions from other regions to join as associate members.

Currently the members of COOMET are metrology institutions of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, China (Associate Member), Bosnia and Herzegovina (Associate Member), Bulgaria, Georgia, Germany (Associate Member), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Cuba (Associate Member), Moldova, Russia, Slovakia, Tajikistan, Türkiye (Associate Member), Uzbekistan and Ukraine.

Efficient, representative, competent regional metrology organization, recognized by the international community.

Raising the level of metrology development, support and expansion of an integrated measurement infrastructure for countries in the Euro-Asian region and other interested countries that makes it possible for every national metrological institute to promote innovation, competitiveness, trade, consumer safety, sustainability and ensuring international recognition.

The basic activity of COOMET is cooperation in the following fields: measurement standards of physical quantities, legal metrology, quality management systems, information and training and prospective research areas.

In its activities COOMET is guided by the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and Rules of Procedure

The COOMET body initiating and supporting cooperation is the COOMET Committee. It consists of the Heads of National Metrology Institutions of the COOMET member countries or persons appointed by them, one representative from each institution. The Committee ensures that the activity of COOMET is pursued in 6 accordance with its objectives and contributes to accomplishing its tasks. . The Committee meets as often as required but at least once a year.

The Committee elects the COOMET President from among its members, for a period of three years, with the eligibility to be re-elected for one subsequent term of office. As a rule the COOMET Secretariat is provided by the National Metrology Institute of the COOMET President.

At the suggestion of the President, the Committee approves nominees for the positions of COOMET Vice-Presidents from among its members. The President, Vice-Presidents and Head of the COOMET Secretariat form the COOMET Presidential Council, which develops the policy of cooperation within COOMET, interacts with international and regional metrology organizations, organizes cooperation between the Committee meetings and prepares questions to be considered at these meetings.

Following the decision of the COOMET Committee the following COOMET Structural Bodies are established for the purpose of initiating work in the major fields and directions of cooperation (the Joint Committee, Technical Committees (TC), Councils and Quality Forum).  

COOMET Presidential Council can initiate establishment of Task Groups (TG) within COOMET and determine their lifespans (membership of TGs is formed under COOMET projects).

The Joint Committee consists of the Chairs of the Technical Committees on the types of measurements (Acoustics, Ultrasound, Vibration; Electricity and magnetism; Flow measurement; Length and angle; Mass and related quantities; Photometry and radiometry; Physical chemistry; Ionizing radiation and radioactivity; Thermometry and thermal physics; Time and frequency), as well as the Chairs of the Technical Committee on General questions concerning measurements (General Metrology) and the Technical Committee on Reference materials.

The Committee Members appoint their representatives to the Structural Bodies of COOMET (Technical Committees, Quality Forum), which become official Structural Bodies members. Those official Structural Bodies members propose a candidate for the position of the Chair of a Structural Body for its further approval by the COOMET Committee.

The Structural Bodies can establish Subcommittees (SCs) for working on routine tasks of cooperation and Working Groups (WGs) within corresponding SCs/TCs for carrying out specific work on COOMET projects

The official languages for the COOMET meetings and documents are Russian and English.

CООМЕТ has no financial assets of its own.

By its scope of cooperation COOMET belongs to organizations of a multi-purpose type

The activities of COOMET are carried out with the Strategy for 2020-2025. Strategic task:

The implementation of these tasks is carried out by COOMET Development Programmes for a period of three years approved by the COOMET Committee.

An important prerequisite of COOMET effectiveness is the collaboration in all fields of activities. Jointly realized projects are the core elements of the COOMET Working Programme.

Nowadays the main attention is paid to the cooperation in the field of measurement standards, in particular to the implementation of the Mutual Recognition of National Measurement Standards and of 7 Calibration and Measurement Certificates Issued by National Metrology Institutes (CIPM MRA). Therefore, the majority of the COOMET projects are dedicated to the preparation of information on calibration and measurement capabilities (CMC), participation in key comparisons of national measurement standards organized by CIPM and organization of regional comparisons of measurement standards, as well as creation and implementation of Quality Management Systems of the National Metrology Institutes and Designated Institutes of COOMET Member Countries.

The subjects of cooperation of COOMET Member Countries in the field of legal metrology encompass a broad range of questions including exchange of information on international requirements and best practices in the field of legal metrology, translation into Russian of documents on metrology of international metrology organizations and provision of guidance on the application of the requirements of international organizations' publications regarding measuring instruments and methods for their testing, as well as other objects of legal metrology at the national level.

CООМЕТ activities in the field of information support and training are also substantially related to the implementation of the CIPM MRA (e.g. in developing software for the CMC database and comparisons of measurement standards of the NMIs and Designated Institutes of COOMET Member Countries). It is also aimed at the exchange of training programmes for experts in the area of metrology, development of exchange programmes for experts in COOMET countries, determination of criteria for assessing scientific papers of young metrologists, etc. An important activity is holding (once every two years) of the competition "The Best Young Metrologist of COOMET".

A new field of COOMET activities is to provide support to COOMET countries with emerging metrology systems (CEEMS) in accordance with their needs (in terms of organization of comparisons, calibrations, trainings, etc.)

COOMET is a member of the Joint Committee of the Regional Metrology Organisations and the BIPM (JCRB) and keeps close relations with OIML according to the Agreement with the International Bureau of Legal Metrology (BIML) signed in 1993.

COOMET is a joint forum of metrologists of Euro-Asian region, effectively working regional metrology organisation which successfully fulfils its tasks according to approved long term programmes. Cooperation within COOMET and its outcomes allow its member countries to succeed in meeting metrological challenges, faced by a national economy in the globalized market, which is necessary to facilitate and accelerate the international exchange of goods and services.