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[Non-Text] وزاره التجاره Ministry of Commerce VISION لدا 23:30 العربيه المعريه السعوديه Kingdom of Saudi Arabia The Law of Calibration and Measurement Article 1: Following words and phrases wherever provided in this Law shall have the meanings assigned thereto hereunder unless the context requires otherwise: Law: The Law of Calibration and Measurement. Regulation: the implementing regulation of this Law. The Organization: The Saudi Standards, Metrology and Quality Organization. Metrology: the science of Measurement. Measurement: Processes aiming at finding a certain quantitative value. Calibration: Processes that reveal, under certain conditions, the relation between certain values, using a metering device or a metering system and known values of the measured quantity. Calibration Certificate: A document recording the result of Calibration. Legal Calibration: Part of Metrology; the units, methods, and devices of measuring, correlated to binding technical and legal requirements that aim at ensuring public protection as regards safety and the appropriate Measurement accuracy. Measurement Criterion: Material criterion or Measurement system used to specify, produce, maintain, or give certain known value or more for a unit in order to transfer it to other measuring tools. Weights and Calibers: All measuring criteria, as well as processes used therein concerning Legal Calibration. Measuring Device: A tool used for Measurement, whether by its own or while being systemically connected with other deceives. International Units System: A connected system for units, adopted and recommended by the General Conference of Weights and Measures. Preliminary Standards: a quantity standard that meets the highest metrological level in particular area. National Standard: A standard accredited by virtue of an official national decision to be the basis for fixing the value of all other standards of the relevant quantity in certain country, and shall be correlated to the international Standard. Reference Standard: A standard that meets the highest metrological quality level in a particular place. Working Standard: A standard that has been made to conform to a reference standard, used regularly for measuring or for examining material standards or measuring systems. Referral: A characteristic of the result of certain Measurement, whereby such result may be correlated to international or National Standards using a connected series of comparisons. Verification: A series of processes undertaken in approved laboratories to verify that the measuring system or the Measuring Device fully meets the Verification standards; Verification includes both commissioning and Stamping. Preliminary Verification: The first Verification conducted for the first time on a new Measuring Device for which no previous Verification has been made. Testing: The processes that are performed to verify that certain Measurement device meets the legal stipulations relevant to Verification, or the recommendation provided in the technical specifications. Stamping: Affixing signs on the Measuring Devices indicating conformity with Verification requirements. +966 11 294 4444 | Riyadh 11162 @ SaudiMCI Kingdom of Saudi Arabia | المملكه العربيه السعوديه www.mci.gov.sa 1 [Non-Text] وزاره التجاره Ministry of Commerce VISION لدا 23:30 دوله لطيل ودمحول KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA Examination: Processes through which the performance of the sample is verified, in order to find out the quality thereof under certain conditions. Measurement or Examination Report: A document containing the results of Measurement or Examination and any other information pertinent to such results. Values Uncertainty: An estimate showing the range of the values within which the actual value of the measured quantity falls. Model: The final design of a Measurement device, in which all elements affecting the metrological characteristics thereof are specified. Quality Mark: A mark licensed for a local product following the Organization's Verification of its conformity with the relevant Saudi standards. Compliance Certificate: A certificate given through the Organization or from an accredited international authority for particular production group after conducting conformity tests therein as per the approved Saudi or international Standards. National Center: The National Center for Metrology and Standards. Accredited Laboratories: The laboratories for which the Organization gives an accreditation certificate at Testing that the same are able to conduct some or all of Verification or standardization Examinations. Article 2: This Law aims at: Establishing a unified Measurement and Calibration reference in the Kingdom. Conforming to the international Standard for Measurement and Calibration. Facilitating commercial exchange of goods between the Kingdom and other countries with regard to Measurement and Calibration. Covering standards and calibers in commercial, industrial and scientific areas. Article 3: International Units System shall be the basis of Measurement units to be referred to in regard to all Measurements in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. All laboratories shall use the International System's units (SI Units), which units shall be based on the following basic units: 1. Length unit: meter. 2. Mass unit: kilogram. 3. Time unit: second. 4. Thermodynamic temperature unit: Kelvin. 5. Electric current unit: ampere. 6. Amount of substance unit: mole. 7. Luminous intensity unit: candela. +966 11 294 4444 | Riyadh 11162 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia | المملكه العربيه السعوديه @ SaudiMCI www.mci.gov.sa 2 [Non-Text] وزاره التجاره Ministry of Commerce VISION لدا 23:30 العربيه المعلوميه Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Article 4: Units of the international system of units, symbols thereof, and units derived therefrom used in every filed shall be specified under standards to be approved by the Organization. Article 5: Measurement and Calibration of quantitative characteristics of imported goods and locally produced goods shall appear prominently on the goods and expressed in the units of the international system. Article 6: Measurement and Calibration laboratories shall be classified as follows: 1. The National Center. 2. Accredited Laboratories. Article 7: Correlation of Measurement criteria shall be conditional upon the following: 1. Calibration Certificates of National Standards kept with the National Center shall be valid, provide for the Uncertainty, be issued by the International Bureau of Calibration and Measurement or any internationally recognized Calibration laboratories in order to verify its correlation to international Standards. 2. That Reference Standards of National Center in force within it shall be adjusted, with Uncertainty in values accompanying it in order to verify correlation to National Standards. 3. Calibers applicable by Accredited Laboratories shall be adjusted with Uncertainty in values accompanying it in order to verify correlation to National Standards. 4. Calibration Certificates of Reference Standards of Calibration and Measurement laboratories accredited by the Organization shall include Uncertainty in values, and it shall be issued by the National Center in order to verify its correlation to National Standards. Article 8: (a) Duties of the Organization: Without prejudice to the duties of the Organization as provided under the laws, the Organization shall assume the following duties: 1. Approve the Model by reference to the Saudi standards or the recommendations of the International Organization for Legal Metrology (OIML) and grant certificates for the approval of the Model for Measurement devices and Initial Verification. 2. Accredit Measurement and Calibration laboratories. 3. Coordinate with relevant entities to ensure saving Reference Standards in Accredited Laboratories, and saving working criteria in a good state in such laboratories and calibrate it internationally by correlating them to the units of the international system and the national Measurement standards kept with the National Center. 4. Granting conformity certificates for Measurement devices subject to legal standards. (b) Duties of the National Center. 1. Maintaining the National Standards, Reference Standards and Working Standards representing the units of the international system and the multiplications or fractions thereof, which shall be correlated to international Standards, along with specifying Uncertainty in values. 2. Periodically calibrating reference and Working Standards and Measurements devices for other laboratories. 3. Conducting research and development in Measurement standards, and investigating the units of the international system and the multiplications and fractions thereof. +966 11 294 4444 | Riyadh 11162 لارياض @ SaudiMCI Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |anglaisه السعوديه www.mci.gov.sa 3 [Non-Text] وزاره التحرير Ministry of Commerce VISION لقي 23:30 العربيه المطبيه KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA 4. Submit testing and inspection reports on Measurement devices to the organization, in order to issue conformity certificates, and perform initial verification of measurement devices. 5. Providing technical consultation to the Organization upon preparing draft Saudi standards, in granting accreditation certificates for laboratories, and in granting Quality Marks. 6. Providing assistance and consultation in the areas of Calibration and Measurements to entities and laboratories in need for such consultation and assistance. 7. Preserving the legal units of Measurement devices and maintain and calibrate the same. (c) Duties of the Accredited Laboratories: 1. Saving Reference Standards and Working Standards correlated to National Standards. 2. Periodically calibrating Measurement devices pertinent to those laboratories. 3. Preserving Reference Standards and Working Standards of Measuring Devices and verifying the same. 4. Examining and verifying Measurement devices to which this Law and the Regulation thereof applies, as per the calibers, masses or Measurements thereof, and ensuring that no methods or means are used to nullify the aforementioned. 5. Providing Measurement and Calibration services in order to meet Calibration requirements inside or outside the laboratory. Article 9: The National Center and the Accredited Laboratories shall assume the following: 1. Conducting a Preliminary Verification for new Measurement devices after granting to the same a Compliance Certificate and before the same are used, the regulation shall provide the mechanism of this, the locations where Verification is to take place, the responsibility for referring devices for Verification and term of validity. 2. Collecting the cost of Calibration from service recipients as such costs are specified under the Regulation. Article 10: (a) Rules for preserving measuring standards: 1. National Standards that the National Center preserves shall have a valid Calibration Certificate correlated to international Standards verified in the national center or kept within the International Bureau of Calibration and Measurement or in the accredited international Calibration laboratories. 2. Reference and Working Standards shall be calibrated internally, the value thereof in addition to the Uncertainty in such values shall be provided. 3. Reference Standards shall have a valid Calibration Certificate providing Uncertainty in the values thereof, provided that the same is issued by the Organization. 4. Working Standards shall be calibrated in relation to the Reference Standards, the values thereof as well as uncertainly in values shall be provided. 5. Measuring units and the multiples and the submultiples thereof shall be presented physically by National Standards, Reference Standards, and Working Standards. (b) Calibration Term and Method of Stamping: 1. The Regulation shall specify the Calibration period for all Measurement standards kept with the Organization and other approved laboratories. 2. Stamps shall be designed as per the procedures specified by the Regulation. Article 11: 1. Saudi standards for the requirements of Measurements devices and the methods of its Calibration shall be applied, the Regulation shall specify the methods of the aforementioned 2. Relevant Saudi standards shall be based on the regulations of the International Organization for Legal Metrology (OIML). +966 11 294 4444 | Riyadh 11162 @ SaudiMCI Kingdom of Saudi Arabia | المملكه العربيه السعوديه www.mci.gov.sa 4 [Non-Text] وزاره التجاره Ministry of Commerce VISION d 30 230 دوله العزيه السحده KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA Article 12: The duty of reporting and establishing the violations to this Law shall be entrusted to specialized officers, the Regulation shall specify the following: 1. The entity(ies) that shall nominate the same. 2. Their duties and authorities. Article 13: The Investigation and Prosecution Authority shall be entrusted with the duty of investigating and prosecuting the violations of this Law. Article 14: The competent court shall resolve all violations and compensation claims resulting from the application of this Law. Article 15: 1. Subject to the provisions of the Law on Combating Commercial Adulteration or any other law, violations to the provisions of this Law shall be punishable as follows: A. A fine of no more than (One Hundred Thousand) Riyals for breaching Articles One, Third and Forth of this Law. B. A fine of no more than (Two Hundred Riyals) for possessing or using Measurement devices in violation to the Law. 2. In all cases, the possession or use of Measurement devices in violation to the provisions of this Law shall result in a resolution by the competent court to confiscate or destroy the same. Article 16: The board of directors of the Organization shall issue the Regulation which shall enter into force One Hundred and Eighty Days after the date of issuance of this Law. Article 17: This Law shall replace the Calibrations and Standards Law issued pursuant to the Royal Degree No. 29 of 13/9/1383, and shall override any contradicting provisions. Article 18: This Law shall enter into force One Hundred Eighty days after the date of its publication in the Official Gazette. +966 11 294 4444 | Riyadh 11162 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia | المملكه العربيه السعوديه @ SaudiMCI www.mci.gov.sa 5