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Law No. 27 Of 3 November 1978 Law On Metrology

Original Language Title:  LEGE nr. 27 din 3 noiembrie 1978 legea metrologiei

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LEGE no. 27 27 of 3 November 1978 metrology law
ISSUER GREAT NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
Published in OFFICIAL BULLETIN no. 100 100 of 11 November 1978



The achievement of the objectives of the Romanian Communist Party Program for the development of the multilateral socialist society developed and Romania's advance towards communism requires the widespread promotion of technical progress in all sectors of life. economic and social, corresponding to the requirements of the contemporary technical-scientific revolution, the organization and unitary conduct of metrology activity throughout the economy in order to ensure the necessary precision and legality measurements, operation and correct use of measuring instruments. Metrology activity must actively contribute to the conduct of production processes in accordance with prescribed technologies, to the realization and control of the quality of products and services, to ensuring the security of installations and the environment, the safety of traffic in transport, in compliance with the norms of labor protection and health protection of the population, in the performance of commercial operations and the management of material goods in accordance with the provisions of the law, scientific research and design work, exchanges economic and technical-scientific cooperation with other countries, as well as other activities involving measurement. Ministries, other central and local bodies, industrial plants and economic and social units have the task of continuously perfecting metrology activity, measuring instruments, in accordance with the needs imposed by permanent lifting of the technical and qualitative level of production, increase of its mechanization and automation, superior valorization of material and human resources, as well as participation in international exchanges of material values with products competitive, at the level of quality norms. Ensuring the correctness and legality of the measurements constitutes a permanent obligation of all working people, who must only use the appropriate legal units and measuring means in the production of the goods materials, as well as in the other sectors of activity in which measurements are carried out and actively participate in the improvement and creation of new measuring instruments, in accordance with the needs of the national economy. In order to increase the contribution and strengthening of the responsibilities of metrology, ministries and other central and local bodies, economic and social units, all working people, The Great National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Romania adopts this law. + Chapter 1 General provisions + Article 1 In the Socialist Republic of Romania in all fields of activity, including foreign trade relations and economic and technical-scientific cooperation with other countries, only legal units and means of measurement are used. The technical-organizational framework for ensuring the performance of measurements with measures and means of legal measurement and the necessary clarifications, is carried out in a unitary manner throughout the country through the activity of metrology. + Article 2 Through the single national plan of economic and social development, technical-material conditions necessary for metrology activity are provided, in accordance with the requirements of the introduction of technical progress and the general development of the national economy. + Article 3 Precision levels, constructive conditions and regulations regarding the use and preservation of measuring instruments are established by state standards and technical norms of metrology, mandatory in all sectors of activity, elaborated and approved under the conditions provided by law. + Article 4 The General State Inspectorate for Quality Control of Products responds together with the ministries, the other central and local bodies, to the unitary achievement of the party and state policy in the field of metrology. + Article 5 The scientific research and technological engineering units have the obligation to continuously refine the measuring instruments and to create new types with high functional parameters. When developing projects on the development or construction of new objectives, it will be provided, under the conditions established by law, the material basis of the metrology activity corresponding to the needs of the entire production process. + Article 6 The working staff with tasks in the field of metrology bear the full responsibility for carrying out on time and under the legal norms of calibrations and metrological checks, the correct operation of measuring instruments, maintenance and repairing them in order to ensure the necessary precision and legality of measurements in the production processes and other areas of economic-social activity. + Chapter 2 Legal units and measuring instruments + Section 1 Legal units of measurement + Article 7 The system of units of legal and mandatory measure in the Socialist Republic of Romania is based on the needs and requirements specific to the national economy, as well as the International System of units of measurement, with the symbol SI The legal units are: A. Fundamental units: --meter-with the symbol m for length --kilogram-with the symbol kg for mass -second-with the symbol s for time -amper-symbol A for electric current intensity -kelvin-with K symbol for thermodynamic temperature -candela-with the cd symbol for luminous intensity -mole-with the mole symbol for the substance B. additional units: -radian-with rad symbol for angle plane -steradian-with sr symbol for solid angle C. derived units, obtained on the basis of fundamental units and additional units. The main units of measurement are those set out in the Annex which is an integral part of this Law; other units of measurement are established by state standards. + Article 8 In justified cases, it may be used as legal units and other units outside those provided for in art. 7, established by standards approved by decree of the State Council. + Article 9 Names, symbols, definitions and rules for the use of legal units, their multiples and submultiples shall be established by state standards. + Article 10 In the case of export contracts concluded with external partners, at their request, other units of measure agreed between the parties may be used. + Section 2 Measuring instruments + Article 11 It constitutes means of measuring all measures, appliances, devices, installations, as well as samples of materials and substances, which materialize and preserve units of measurement and provide measurement information. + Article 12 The measuring instruments, depending on their destination, shall be classified in standard measuring instruments and measuring instruments. A. Standard measuring instruments + Article 13 The measuring instruments, which materialize and legally preserve the units of measurement and serve to transmit them, are ethaloane. The highest precision standards, used as a single legal basis for the transmission of units of measure to the other ethaloons in the Socialist Republic of Romania, are national standards. The national etaloons, together with the other echelons in the economy, form-through uniqueness and unitary structure on precision steps-the national ethaloane system and constitute the scientific, technical and legal basis, of reference, of all measurements carried out throughout the country, as well as in the relations of economic and technical-scientific cooperation with other countries. + Article 14 National standards are provided, preserved and used by the General State Inspectorate for Quality Control of Products. + Article 15 Maintaining national standards at the level of precision necessary for economic and social activity and their continuous improvement are ensured through scientific research in the field of metrology, as well as periodic comparison with the etaloons international Bureau of Measures and Weights and with the national standards of other states. + Article 16 The ethaloons-outside the national ones-are provided, preserved and used both by the General State Inspectorate for the Quality Control of Products, as well as by the authorized units, according to the law, to produce, to repair measuring instruments or to transmit units of measurement. B. Means of measuring work + Article 17 The measuring instruments used in the labor process for obtaining the measurement information in all fields of activity, as well as the automation elements with measuring functions, are means of measuring work. The elements that influence the operation of the measuring instrument, such as measuring circuits, automation loops, auxiliary devices or those used to determine the payment amounts, shall be assimilated to the measuring instruments. the disposal of products, which are associated with measuring instruments. + Chapter 3 Manufacture and import of measuring instruments + Article 18 The manufacture and use in the national economy of measuring instruments are made in compliance with the rules of unification and typing, according to the unique classification of measuring instruments, approved, at the proposal of the Council of Ministers, by decree of The State Council. The technical-functional characteristics and the rules for the use and maintenance of measuring instruments, contained in the unique nomenclature of measuring instruments, are established by state standards and technical norms of metrology, approved according to the law. The unique classification of measuring instruments shall be completed, depending on the needs of the economy and the requirements of technical progress. The proposals for completing the nomenclature shall be made by ministries and other central bodies with the opinion of the General State Inspectorate for Quality Control of Products and submitted for approval by the Council of Ministers. + Article 19 The ministries, the other central and local bodies, producing, are obliged to take measures to carry out the necessary means of measuring the economy, of high precision and in compliance with the technical-functional parameters. The import of measuring instruments can be carried out, under the conditions provided by law, in cases when their production in the country is not technically and economically justified. The manufacturing or import of measuring instruments can only be made after they have received the model approval and have been included in the unique measuring instrument nomenclature. Machinery and technological equipment manufactured in the country, as well as complex imports, will be provided with measuring means that fall within the rules of unification and typing contained in the unique nomenclature of measuring instruments approved in the conditions provided by law. + Article 20 The model approval is the document certifying, from a metrological point of view, that a certain type of measuring instrument meets the quality and reliability conditions and falls within the unique classification of measuring instruments. + Article 21 The manufacture and import of special purpose and low precision measuring instruments that serve to obtain indicative indications are made without the need for model approval, in compliance with the conditions provided by law and with the opinion State General Inspectorate for Product Quality Control. + Article 22 The model approval is granted, at the request of the interested unit, by the State General Inspectorate for Quality Control of Products, based on the results of the state metrological tests on the measuring instruments, carried out by the own laboratories or through the profile laboratories of other units. The model approval shall be given within a maximum of 60 days from the date of presentation of the model of the measuring instrument and of the technical documentation. The state metrological tests consist, as the case may be, in samples, determinations, analyses and studies, in order to establish the conformity of the models with the provisions of the state standards, technical norms, specifications, as well as with the technical norms of metrology on the measuring instrument subject to tests. The state metrological tests cannot be substituted by the metrological tests carried out by the manufacturer. + Article 23 The tried measuring instruments for which model approval has been granted, shall be invested with the model metrology brand. The model metrology model is the hallmark that applied to a measuring instrument attests to it the quality of being used as a reference model in series manufacturing, import or possible litigation. The model metrology model is established and applied by the State General Inspectorate for Quality Control of Products. The means of measurement, at which the results of the state tests are inadequate, are rejected motivated. + Article 24 The model approval shall be granted to the unit producing and delivering measuring instruments or measuring facilities as finished products, to the external trade undertaking carrying out the import of the measuring instruments or, where applicable, to the beneficiary undertaking. of the import, which also bear the expenses occasioned by obtaining the model approval. The change of the manufacturer entails the obligation to obtain another model approval, granted on the basis of the state metrological tests, carried out on the measuring instruments made in the new manufacturing unit. In particular cases where it is necessary to know the behavior in time of the measuring instruments can be given provisional model approval, by the General State Inspectorate for Quality Control of Products, under the conditions established by Technical standards of metrology. The approval shall be valid only for a period of time and for a limited number of measuring instruments. + Article 25 The technical documentation that accompanied the models that have been approved, shall be kept by the General State Inspectorate for the Quality Control of Products and the manufacturing or importing enterprises. These documentations, endorsed and initialled by the General State Inspectorate for Quality Control of Products, constitute the legal documents for the verification of the technical-functional characteristics of the measuring instrument to which they refer, to the manufacture of the serial number or any disputes. For the same purpose, in some cases established by the General State Inspectorate for the Quality Control of Products, a copy of the approved models shall be kept in a similar manner. + Article 26 The approval of measuring instruments produced in the Socialist Republic of Romania is only after obtaining the model approval. + Article 27 The manufacturing units are obliged to produce only measuring instruments with technical-functional characteristics according to the technical documentation and the reference models and answer for it. The same obligation and liability also lies with the importing units which will have to import only measuring instruments in accordance with the technical documentation and reference models which have been submitted to the state metrological test, under the conditions Law. + Article 28 The General State Inspectorate for Quality Control of Products carries out checks on the conformity of the technical-functional characteristics of the measuring instruments produced or imported, with those of the reference model, entered in technical documentation. In case of finding of non-conformities with the technical documentation and the approved model, the General State Inspectorate for Product Quality Control will order the remediation of the deficiencies found or, as the case may be, with the prior knowledge of central or local competent bodies, stop manufacturing or stop importing. + Article 29 In the case of measuring instruments whose technical-functional characteristics no longer meet the requirements of technical progress, the State General Inspectorate for Product Quality Control may withdraw the model approval; similarly it may withdraw the model approval for the means of measurement from import. + Chapter 4 Transmission of units of measurement + Article 30 In order to ensure the necessary precision and legality of the measurements, the measuring instruments are mandatory in the action of transmission of units of measurement, which is carried out by calibration or metrological verification, starting from the etaloons national through successive stages of precision, using the other ethaloons, up to the measuring instruments of work, according to state standards and technical norms of metrology. + Article 31 By metrological calibration, the precision level of the standard is determined, issuing a certificate of calibration only in the case of its classification in the provisions established by state standards and technical norms of metrology. By metrological verification it is determined whether the means of measuring work falls within the limits of precision permissible by state standards, technical metrology rules or other regulations and it releases the verification bulletin by which means measurement of work is admitted or rejected. + Article 32 Calibration or metrological verification is mandatory: --initially, on each measuring instrument, manufactured or imported, before its delivery to the beneficiary unit and on each measuring instrument repaired, before putting into use; -periodically, on the means of measurement in use, at the time limit set by technical norms of metrology. Economic and social units have the obligation to provide shorter time frames, in cases where the concrete conditions of use lead to the reduction of the length of time during which the measuring instrument works properly; --whenever necessary to ensure the proper functioning of the measuring instruments. + Article 33 Measuring instruments used exclusively for household or teaching-demonstration, are subject only to initial metrological verification, piece by piece or-as the case may be-by survey, under conditions set by state standards and norms technical metrology. + Article 34 The measuring instruments that were found corresponding to calibration or metrological verification, were invested with the metrological mark of verification and issued with calibration certificate or verification bulletin, constitute measuring instruments. Legal. The metrological mark of verification is the hallmark that applies to the measuring instrument to attest, from a metrological point of view, the right to be used. The metrological mark of verification shall be established and shall be issued only by the State General Inspectorate for Quality Control of Products. + Article 35 The means of measurement rejected at calibration or verification shall be subject to repair or, as the case may be, removal from operation, under the law. The means of import measurement, rejected upon initial verification, shall be communicated in due time to the foreign trade undertakings which have carried out the import. + Article 36 Measuring instruments graduated in other units of measurement than those provided for in art. 7 7 and 8, used in special cases, shall be subject to initial and periodic calibrations or checks through the care of the holding unit responsible for it. + Article 37 The transmission of the units of measurement shall be carried out in a unitary manner only by the General State Inspectorate for the Quality Control of Products and by the metrology laboratories authorized for this purpose. + Chapter 5 Technical supervision and control of metrology activity + Article 38 The technical supervision of the measuring instruments, mainly includes: making calibrations and metrological checks and repairs according to the programs drawn up; the correct use of measuring instruments by the personnel laborer in the labor process; proper maintenance of measuring instruments and decommissioning of the worn or defective ones; identification of faults in the measurement processes generating the rebutts; constitution of the reserve of means of measurement to ensure continuity of production processes, security installations and work, as well as spare parts necessary for the maintenance of the measuring instruments provided. The technical supervision of the measuring instruments shall be carried out by the authorized metrological personnel from the economic and social units. + Article 39 The control of the metrology activity is mainly carried out on: the application and compliance of legal regulations in the field of metrology; ensuring the precision levels achieved in the transmission of the measuring units and the precision of measuring methods; equipping the production processes with measuring instruments according to the technical documentation and their proper use; record and technical condition of the measuring instruments; compliance with the deadlines for carrying out periodic calibrations and metrological verifications, as well as maintenance and to repair the measuring instruments according to the annual programs of checks and repairs; to ensure the proper operating conditions of the metrology laboratories and the repair shops. The control of the metrological activity is carried out by the General Inspectorate for the Quality Control of Products, as well as by the authorized metrological personnel, from ministries, the other central and local bodies and industrial plants. + Chapter 6 Metrological authorizations and approvals + Article 40 Metrology laboratories and repair shops in the sectors of economic and social activity can operate only on the basis of the authorization given by the General State Inspectorate for Quality Control of Products. + Article 41 The authorization shall be issued upon request, on the basis of metrological expertise, on measuring fields and precision levels. The expertise finds the fulfilment of the location, installation and environmental conditions of laboratories and workshops, equipping with etaloons and machinery, training and qualification of personnel and determines by metrological testing whether the precision levels Effectively insured correspond to those for which authorisation was requested. The validity of the authorisation is one year. The equipping of metrology laboratories and repair shops means of measurement is based on the specificity of the activity, on the basis of unit norms. They are elaborated by ministries and other central bodies, shall be endorsed by the General State Inspectorate for Quality Control of Products and approved by decree of the State Council. + Article 42 Authorized metrology laboratories have the right to carry out checks and-as the case may be-calibrations of measuring instruments from the equipment of the units within which they operate, only in the fields and at the precision levels for which they were authorised. Authorized metrology laboratories can perform, with the agreement of the General State Inspectorate for Quality Control of Products, checks or, as the case may be, and calibrations of measuring means belonging to other economic-social units. The measuring instruments for whose verification the establishment of laboratories within the enterprise is not economically justified or cannot be done in the laboratories of other units, shall be verified within the county metrology laboratories of the State General Inspectorate for Product Quality Control. + Article 43 Calibration and metrological verification, as well as the repair and maintenance of measuring instruments are made only by metrologists authorized by the General State Inspectorate for Quality Control of Products. The authorization shall be granted at the request of the establishment, on the basis of an examination and shall be valid for a period of three years, except for the first authorisation which expires after a period of one year + Article 44 Categories of worker personnel who use in the basic professional activity measuring instruments for the performance of management, distribution and marketing operations, as well as the operators from the measuring instruments in the rooms ordering, must possess an authorization, issued by the General Inspectorate of State for Quality Control of Products, on the basis of examination, whose validity is five years. + Article 45 The coordination of metrology activity in units, industrial plants, ministries, other central and local bodies, shall be done by specialist worker personnel appointed by written order issued by the management of the respective unit, on the basis of the authorization issued by the General Inspectorate for the Quality Control of Products, after taking an exam. The authorisation shall be valid for one year. The change in office, the disciplinary sanction or the dissolution of the employment contract of this working staff, can be done only with the agreement of the General State Inspectorate for Quality Control of Products. + Article 46 The authorization is not transmissible. Violation of the legal provisions on the exercise of powers conferred by authorization, attracts-depending on the gravity of the deviation-temporary suspension or cancellation thereof. The application for the extension of the authorization, as well as the replacement of the staff to which the authorization was cancelled are obligations of the units, in order to ensure the continuity of the activity in compliance with the legal norms + Article 47 The conditions of approval of the metrology laboratories, the repair shops and the personnel referred to in Articles 43, 44 and 45 shall be established by technical metrology rules issued by the General State Inspectorate for Product Quality Control. + Article 48 It is subject to the approval of the General State Inspectorate for Quality Control of Products, the order notes or, as the case may be, the execution projects on metrology laboratories and the repair shops economic and social to be built, regulations of organization and activity of metrology, analytical programs of forms of state education that convey knowledge in the field of metrology, programs and topics forms of improvement of the working personnel working in the field of metrology, inventions and innovations on methods and means of measurement. + Article 49 The expenses occasioned by the performance of calibrations and verifications, the state metrological tests of models, metrological expertise, metrological testing and the issuance of permits for metrology laboratories, as well as authorization workshops to repair measuring means, authorization of verifiers, respectively repairers, engineers or technicians who coordinate the metrology activity and the personnel provided in art. 44 shall be borne by the beneficiary units. The fees and charges for the provision of services provided for in the previous paragraph shall be established by the General State Inspectorate for Quality Control of Products, with the consent of the State Committee for Prices. + Chapter 7 Duties and liabilities + Article 50 In order to ensure the necessary precision and the legality of the measurements the General State Inspectorate for Quality Control of Products has the following main duties and responsibilities: a) is responsible for the continuous realization, preservation and improvement of national standards at the level of precision required by the needs of the economy; b) transmit the units of measurement from the national standards to the etaloons and measuring instruments in the economy; perform the testing of the precision levels provided in the authorized laboratories and in the practice of measurements; c) is responsible for conducting scientific researches in the field of metrology that concern the national ethaloane base, the transmission of units of measurement, the elaboration of methods and the realization of calibration, verification and measurement installations, improvement theoretical bases of measurements; d) issue, edit and disseminate technical norms of metrology and methodological instructions of metrology, mandatory for the entire economy and develop a centralized activity of information, documentation and publication in the field of metrology; e) coordinates and controls the activity of metrology in ministries, other central and local bodies, industrial plants and economic units; directs and controls in all sectors of economic and social activity the unitary application of the law and the other normative acts in the field of metrology, having the right of access to all places where they are used, build or repair, calibrate or verify metrologically means of measurement; f) endorses the minimum specifications to be provided for measurements on energy balance sheets or other measurement-based balance sheets, deliveries of products between economic units, as well as prepackaging of goods; g) ensure together with the Ministry of Education and Education the training of metrologists. + Article 51 The General State Inspectorate for Quality Control of Products ensures the participation in the activity of international organizations and organizations in the field of metrology, of which the Socialist Republic of Romania is part, and together with the ministries and to other actions in the field of metrology with interest. + Article 52 Ministries, other central and local bodies and industrial plants are responsible for ensuring the necessary precision and legality of measurements at subordinate units, in which they are obliged to take measures to: a) the organization, guidance and control of metrology activity in subordinate units; where it is justified to establish in compliance with the rules of structure distinct metrology compartments, depending on the number of measuring instruments in the use, importance and level of accuracy of the measurements made. Metrology compartments-metrology laboratories and repair shops-can be organized, as the case may be, by groups of units or industrial platforms; b) the preparation and improvement of the metrologists, as well as-as the case may be-of those who carry out precision measurements; c) ensuring the endowment of subordinate units with necessary standards and measuring means and reducing the number of printers in order to maintain and repair them in optimal conditions; only after the possibility of carrying out the measurements required by the technical documentation and the specifics of the work d) creation and introduction into manufacturing of new measuring instruments to provide quantitative and qualitative means of current and prospective measuring instruments of the national economy; e) the organization of the pursuit of the exploitation of the measuring instruments and the valorization of the data obtained, in order to permanently improve their technical-functional characteristics; f) elaboration of the regulation of organization and conduct of metrology activity and its endorsement by the General State Inspectorate for Quality Control of Products. + Article 53 The enterprises and other economic and social units that own and use measuring instruments, are responsible for the precision and legality of the measurements, for which purpose they are obliged to take measures to: a) the organization of metrology laboratories and repair shops means of measuring and equipping them on the basis of the stipulated norms, ensuring the activity of metrology according to the law and-as the case may be-the establishment of compartments Distinct metrology. In cases where it is not justified to establish laboratories and workshops to repair own measuring means, the metrology activity will be coordinated by specialized worker personnel in compliance with the provisions of art. 45 45; b) the transmission of units of measurement, under the law, to all means of measurement in use; if the unit does not have its own metrology laboratories, the necessary checks and calibrations shall be provided by the General Inspectorate of State for the Quality Control of Products through its units or authorized metrology laboratories of other units; c) the corresponding equipment on the basis of the program with measuring instruments suitable as measuring interval, precision, working conditions and number, of the production processes, as well as of the other activities; necessary to ensure the continuity of production processes, the safety of installations and of work; d) performing technical supervision of measuring instruments and measurements and establishing calibration periods and metrological verification of measuring instruments according to the specific conditions of use and the importance of measurements carried out, within the time limits laid down in the technical rules of metrology. These periods of calibration and verification of measuring instruments are approved by the management of the unit; ensuring the timely performance of periodic metrological calibrations and verifications, as well as the repair of the measuring instruments in use, on annual programmes approved by the management of the establishment; e) the proper equipping of the metrology laboratories and the repair shops means of measuring in accordance with the unitary norms of endowment, the technical norms of metrology and their authorization according to the law; f) the training and improvement of the metrologists and the working personnel who carry out measurements in the labor process; g) proper reception of measuring means and the removal from use of those that can no longer be repaired, only with the opinion of the working staff in charge of coordinating the metrology activity. + Article 54 The scientific research and technological engineering units, as well as the design units, are obliged to: a) provide in the technical documentation only measuring instruments contained in the unique nomenclature of measuring instruments; b) establish in the technical documentation of the measuring instruments that are carried out in the country, metrological characteristics and high reliability, according to the requirements of the economy and the stage of technical progress worldwide; c) ensure the typing of assemblies and sub-assemblies of measuring instruments, differentiated conditions of use, depending on the requirements of the activity; d) provide distinctly in the projects of installations and machinery, methods and means of measuring appropriate to the value of the parameters and tolerances to be guaranteed by measuring, fitting conditions and their proper use; in the technical documentation the measures necessary to ensure in good conditions the continuity of the production processes and the maintenance of the quality level of the products, as well as the possibilities of periodic verification of the measuring instruments, without damage to the continuous operation of installations; e) establish in the technical documentation the measuring points necessary for the management of technological processes, security of machinery and installations, control on flow and in the end of the quality of products, people's security and environmental protection, the measurement of the specific consumption, the performance of the energy balance sheets or other required balance sheets which are established on the basis of measurements; to provide-where appropriate-means of active, automated control measuring, enabling the centralised management of the technological processes and as required with adaptation to computers; establish when it is necessary to process and interpret the results of the measurements; f) provide, according to the requirements of the activity, in the projects of new or expanding objectives, metrology laboratories and repair shops means of measurement, equipped with appropriate standards and installations, to ensure conditions of protection against disruptive factors, established by state standards and technical norms of metrology, as well as the necessary metrological personnel, under the conditions provided by law. + Article 55 The units producing measuring instruments shall be obliged to: a) obtain model approval for the measuring instruments to be manufactured; b) carry out the pursuit of the conduct in operation, as well as reliability tests for the measuring instruments they manufacture; c) ensure continuous diversification, renewal and improvement of the metrological characteristics and reliability of measuring instruments, in order to meet the requirements of the economy; d) to provide the necessary spare parts for the maintenance and repair of measuring instruments in the economy. + Article 56 The councils of the working people in the units, as well as the management staff of the compartments holding and using measuring instruments, are required to realize the material, technical and organizational conditions for carrying out the activity of metrology in accordance with the provisions of the law, in order to ensure the necessary precision and legality of the measurements made in that unit. + Article 57 The heads of the sections and workshops that have in use measuring means, will participate in the preparation of the annual calibration and metrological verification and repair of measuring instruments, responding together with the working staff of the metrology activity of their fulfilment and they are obliged to control at all workplaces in the wards and workshops, the correct use of measuring instruments. + Article 58 Workers, maisters, technicians and engineers will only use legal measuring instruments provided for in technological documentation and will immediately grasp any situation that creates uncertainty over the accuracy of the measurements made, having the obligation in such cases require verification or replacement of the respective measuring instruments. + Article 59 The working staff tasked with coordinating the metrology activity, as well as the workers, the maisters, technicians and engineers working in the metrology activity are responsible for the application of the legal provisions on ensuring precision and the legality of measurements made with measuring instruments in use. They have the obligation to control on the manufacturing flow and all jobs, correct use of measuring instruments and to refer to the management of the unit and the General State Inspectorate for Quality Control of Products which involves ensuring the necessary precision and legality of the measurements. + Chapter 8 Sanctions + Article 60 Violation of the provisions of this law attracts disciplinary, material, civil, contravention or criminal liability, as appropriate. + Article 61 It constitutes contraventions to the rules on metrology activity the following facts, if they were not enjoyed in such incit conditions, according to the criminal law, to be considered crimes: a) the operation without authorization of the metrology laboratories and the repair shops, as well as the use in the activity of unauthorised personnel metrology; b) manufacture or import of measuring instruments without prior approval of the approval of the model or non-conforming with the approved model; import of measuring means graduated into units of measurement different from legal units, with exceptions provided by law; c) incorrect transmission of units of measurement, by making calibrations and metrological checks in violation of the provisions of the technical norms of metrology; use of ethaloons with expired calibration certificates; d) failure to perform the initial metrological calibrations and verifications of the newly manufactured, imported or repaired measuring instruments, before delivery or commissioning; e) failure to submit measuring instruments to calibration and periodic metrological verification and repair, according to the program of checks and repairs; f) carrying out measurements with measuring instruments whose measuring intervals and precision do not comply with the provisions of the technical documentation; g) the installation and use of measuring means in improper working conditions, not in accordance with the provisions of the technical documentation, with those of the manufacturer or of the technical norms of metrology; h) the use of metrologically unauthorized personnel to carry out measurements for the management, distribution, trade and transport of material goods or to carry out public reinforcements; i) to carry out measurements with unlawful measuring instruments, improperly maintained or defective, rejected at calibration or metrological verification, without the calibration certificate or the verification bulletin within the period of validity; j) preventing in any form the bodies of the State Metrological Inspection to exercise the powers provided by the legal provisions. + Article 62 The contraventions provided in art. 61 61 shall be sanctioned as follows: a) with a fine of 800 to 1500 lei those provided in lett. a)-b); b) with a fine of 300 to 700 lei those provided in lett. c)-j). The finding of contraventions and the application of sanctions shall be made by the personnel empowered for this purpose within the General State Inspectorate for Quality Control of Products. Against the minutes of finding the contravention you can make the complaint within 15 days from the date of its communication. The complaint shall be lodged with the body to which the finding agent belongs. + Article 63 In so far as this law does not have, the contraventions provided for in this law are applicable to the provisions of Law no. 32/1968 on establishing and sanctioning contraventions. + Chapter 9 Final provisions + Article 64 For the unitary realization of the metrology activity the General State Inspectorate for Quality Control of Products performs its duties in this field through the Inspection of the State Metrology, within it. + Article 65 The provisions of the present law also apply to cooperative organizations and other public organizations. + Article 66 This law comes into force 90 days after its publication. The same date shall be repealed: - Decree no. 21/1954 for the general application of the metric system, published in the Official Bulletin no. 6 6 of 26 January 1954; - Decree no. 403/1954 on interpretation Decree no. 21/1954 for the general application of the metric system, published in the Official Bulletin no. 44 44 of 8 October 1954; - Decision of the Council of Ministers no. 495/1953 for the approval of the regulation of state tests, published in the Collection of Decisions and provisions of the Council of Ministers no. 12 12 of 25 February 1953; - Decision of the Council of Ministers no. 498/1953 for the approval of the Regulation on the organization of the supervision of measures and apparatus for measuring in enterprises, published in the Collection of Decisions and provisions of the Council of Ministers 12 12 of 25 February 1953; - Decision of the Council of Ministers no. 499/1953 for the approval of the regulation of state checks of measures and measuring devices, published in the Collection of Decisions and provisions of the Council of Ministers no. 12 12 of 25 February 1953; - Decision of the Council of Ministers no. 626/1968 on the system of units of legal and compulsory measure in the Socialist Republic of Romania, published in the Official Bulletin no. 46 46 of 9 April 1968; --Article 1 lit. c), d), e), f), u) and v) of Decision of the Council of Ministers no. 2489/1969 on the establishment and sanctioning of contraventions to the rules on state standards, metrology, mechanical installations under pressure, lifting and packaging installations, published in the Official Bulletin no. 160 160 of 31 December 1969, and any other provisions to the contrary. Annex no. 1 on the main units of measure derived and other units of legal measure are published in the Official Bulletin no. 100 of 11 November 1978. ----------