Calibration office

Terracotta medallion from the building of the former Flensburg calibration office , which symbolizes the function of a calibration office

The calibration offices of the federal states are responsible for legal metrology in Germany (nationalized in 1912). The main tasks are the calibration as well as the use and market monitoring of measuring devices , which are subject to calibration law due to the measurand and their intended use . In organizational terms, the calibration offices are usually subordinate to the state's Ministry of Economics . In the GDR, the calibration offices were subordinate to the German Office for Weights and Measures .

The German Academy for Metrology (DAM) is a joint training and further education facility for calibration staff from all federal states, based in Munich.

tasks

Seal of the Royal Verification Inspection 11 of the Reich in Cologne

Implementation of the Verification Act (until December 31, 2014) and the Measurement and Verification Act (from January 1, 2015)

Calibration of taximeters , fuel pumps , tank trucks , scales , devices for speed monitoring in road traffic, weights (retail) and many other measuring devices

Metrological control of medical products (medical measuring devices in the field of medicine) (not the responsibility of the calibration authority in all federal states)

Market surveillance of measuring devices, in particular according to Directive 2004/22 / EC on measuring devices and Directive 2009/23 / EC on non-automatic weighing instruments
Supervision of the state-recognized test centers where consumption measuring devices ( water meters , gas meters , electricity meters , heat meters ) are calibrated

Approval and monitoring of measuring devices for calibration ( test stands ) and calibration of standards

Implementation of diagnostic tests on measuring devices

Monitoring of prepackages according to weight or volume

Advice to consumers and businesses in the area of calibration law

Germany

Management of the Lower Saxony metrology and calibration system in Hanover

Thuringian State Discharge Office in Ilmenau

The calibration authorities of the respective federal state are responsible for enforcing calibration law in Germany. Berlin and Brandenburg as well as the northern German states of Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania each have a common calibration authority. In the GDR, responsibility lay with the calibration directorates of the districts .

state	Surname	Organizational form	link
Baden-Württemberg	Calibration and Proofing System Baden-Württemberg (EBBW)		ebbw.org
Bavaria	State Office for Weights and Measures	State authority	lmg.bayern.de
Berlin	State Office for Metrology and Calibration in Berlin-Brandenburg		lme.berlin-brandenburg.de
Brandenburg	State Office for Metrology and Calibration in Berlin-Brandenburg		lme.berlin-brandenburg.de
Bremen	Calibration office Bremen		eichamt.bremen.de
Hamburg	Calibration Directorate North		ed-nord.de
Hesse	Hessian calibration directorate		hed.hessen.de
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Calibration Directorate North		ed-nord.de
Lower Saxony	Measurement and calibration system Lower Saxony		men.niedersachsen.de
North Rhine-Westphalia	State Office for Measurement and Calibration in North Rhine-Westphalia	State company	lbme.nrw.de
Rhineland-Palatinate	State Office for Measurement and Calibration of Rhineland-Palatinate		lme.rlp.de
Saarland	Calibration supervisory authority Saarland		lua.saarland.de
Saxony	State enterprise for metrology and calibration	State enterprise	eichamt.sachsen.de
Saxony-Anhalt	State eichamt Saxony-Anhalt		landeseichamt.de
Schleswig-Holstein	Calibration Directorate North		ed-nord.de
Thuringia	State Office for Consumer Protection Thuringia Department of Metrology and Calibration		www.thueringen.de/th7/tlv/eichwesen

Austria

In Austria, the tasks of calibration are carried out by the Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying .

Switzerland

In Switzerland, the tasks of calibration are carried out by the Federal Institute for Metrology METAS (national metrology institute) and by the cantonal calibration offices. METAS can designate verification bodies for certain tasks.

Other countries

In Luxembourg , the function of the Weights and Measures Office is localized with other tasks in the Luxembourg Institute for Standardization, Accreditation, Safety and Quality of Products and Services (ILNAS).

Web links

eichamt.de - homepage for the legal metrology institutions in Germany

dam-germany.de - Homepage of the German Academy for Metrology (DAM)

Individual evidence

↑ Martin Broszat , Hermann Weber, Gerhard Braas: SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany , pp. 257-258
↑ www.metas.ch
↑ ILNAS self-presentation on the authority's website (French); Retrieved November 4, 2015.

[1] Martin Broszat , Hermann Weber, Gerhard Braas: SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany , pp. 257-258

[2] www.metas.ch

[ILNAS01-3] ILNAS self-presentation on the authority's website (French); Retrieved November 4, 2015.