“Metrology” is a science for measuring.
“Scientific Metrology” deals with the organization and development of measurement national standard units (etalons
“Industrial Metrology” ensures appropriate functioning of measuring instruments used in industry, manufacturing and testing process by which is performed traceability of measuring results.
“Legal Metrology” is part of the metrology, which is regulated with laws and other legal acts that ensures accurate and reliable of measuring results in areas where applied legal tested measuring instruments. Legal metrology affects the economy, health and safety transparency.
“Measuring Instrument” is any device or system used for measuring purpose.
“Measuring” is a set of actions for defining the measure value.
“Measuring Unit” is a defined measure, adapted by convention that is used as standard for measurement of the same quantity.
“Type of measuring instrument” is set of measuring instruments, has the identic functions, and are based on same principles, has the common project and are produced by same manufacturer and based same technical and technologic documentation.
“Measuring standard, etalon” is a standard are the fundamental reference for a system of weights and measures, measuring instrument, referring objects or measuring system defined to set, perform, preserve, reproduce a value or more vales of measuring that serves as reference.
“International Standard”-Standard (etalon) is known from international convention as appropriate for international use and a base for setting the standards values for respective measures.
“National Measuring Standard” is a standard (etalon) stated by the Government of Kosovo to serve in the Republic of Kosovo as a base for setting the standards values for respective measures.
“Referring Standard” is a highest quality standard (etalon) of the metrology of a country or an organization based on which are based measuring standards.
“Working Standard” –a working Standard (etalon) is used to perform routine calibration or control material measures, measuring instruments or referring materials.
“Maintenance of measuring standard” all necessary actions are defined for saving etalon’s metrology characteristics within defined parameters.
“Referring material” is a sufficient and sustainable homogeneous material for one or more qualities used in calibration, for setting other material values or for defining the quality assurance.
“Certified Referring Materials” is a referring material, accompanied with a certificate, which has one or more characters on what is being certified the product, based on transmission of traceability of the accurate measuring unit in which the character values are expressed, and for each certificate value is complete reveled traceability level.
“Traceability” is the quality of the measurement result or the value of the measurement standard, achieved after an unbroken chain of comparisons with prescribed national or international measurement standards, each contributing to measurement uncertainty and has defined assurance level.
Chain of traceability
“Calibration” Calibration is a set of operations that under certain conditions establish relations between values indicated by a measuring instrument or system, or values represented by a materialized measure or reference material, and values realized by measurement standard.
“Verification” is the confirmation made through examination and identification in case the technical and metrological requirements are met.
“Regular verification of a measuring instrument” is periodical verification made in accordance with law and legal acts.
“Extraordinary verification of measuring instruments” is a verification made after remodeling, elimination of malfunctions or other technical defects (repair) or are carried out of regular verification period.
“Authorization” the given right in order to fulfill the verification and calibration of one measurement tool into obligatory field, public or private subjects, domestic or foreign ones fulfilling the activities in Republic of Kosovo.
“Certification” when the activity through which one the third and independent party officially certifies that the product, process or service is in accordance with determined demands by sub-law acts of this law.
“Pre-packaging”- is combination of a product or individual packaging. A product is packed and is when it is placed in prepackage of whatever shape with intention to be placed in to market which one was closed out of customer’s presence so that the marked content and quantity cannot be changed unless it will be open visibly modified.
“Bottles as measuring device” is any device made of glass or any other material that has a hardness and durability so, to provide the same metrology guarantees as glass, the tapestry or designed to tapestry, destined storage, transport or delivery of liquids of metrological characteristics (design characteristics and manufacturers uniformity) such that can be used as bottle metering when they are filled up to a specified level or a specified percentage of their capacity to the brim and their content can be estimated with sufficient accuracy and has a nominal capacity from 0.05 to 5 liters inside.
“Permit for placing into the market or serving legally controlled measuring instruments” is a permit issued by the Kosovo Metrology Agency for placing into the market or serving legally controlled measuring instruments, which did not has initial verification marking.
“Type Approval of measuring instrument” is acceptance of these instruments for initial verification, and when such thing is not required, than is required authorization for placing them into the market or make available as service.
“Initial verification of measuring instruments” The initial verification of a measuring instrument must be carried out for all new or restored measuring instruments in accordance with type-approval of the measuring instrument.
“The National Metrology Institute” is an institution designated by a national decision to develop and maintain the etalons (standards) for one or several national measuring.
“Primary Laboratory” is the laboratory that performs and adapts basic international metrology researches and perform and maintain the highest international standards level.
“Referring National Laboratory” -through monitoring other primary laboratories traceability (of other countries) is able to calibrate the measuring equipment at the highest level in the Republic of Kosovo
“Accredited Laboratory” is an approved laboratory and recognized by third parties for its technical competence, the quality assurance system and application of neutrality.
“Accreditation” is a recognition from a third party on laboratory’s technical competence, the quality assurance system and application of neutrality. Accreditation is granted based on laboratory regular assessment, and survey regular data. Usually is based on the international standard ISO / IEC 17025 “General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories”. The purpose of accreditation is that tests and calibrations from accredited laboratories in one member country shall be accepted by the authorities and industry of all member states.
