OIML Technical Committee Secretariat to Be Hosted by China
Date: 10 30, 2026
From October 26th to 28th, 2026, the 61st conference of the International Committee of Legal Metrology (CIML) was held in Delhi, India, with over 100 representatives from nearly 60 member countries in attendance. Bai Qingyuan, Vice Minister of the State Administration for Market Regulation（SAMR） and member of the CIML Presidential Council(PC), headed the Chinese delegation at the conference.
The Chinese delegation took the initiative to plan and communicate with PC members and key members of OIML to build consensus and promote the adoption of resolutions at the conference. China will assume the Secretariat of the Subcommittee on Automatic Weighing instruments (TC9/SC2) of the Technical Committee on Quality and Density instruments. This is the fourth secretariat of the 50 sub technical committees of the International Organization for Legal Metrology (OIML) undertaken by China. The technical committee is responsible for formulating international metrological rules for weighing equipment such as belt weighers, automatic instruments for weighing road vehicles in motion, and automatic catchweighing instruments. Its rules are the core basis for unifying global legal metrological requirements, eliminating technical barriers to trade, and ensuring fair commodity transactions, and are a key area of competition among member countries.
For China, a major manufacturer and exporter of weighing instruments, assuming the Secretariat is a crucial step toward providing global public goods in measurement. It marks notable progress in China's role in international rule-making for weighing instruments. SAMR will work with partners on jointly developing rules and global mutual recognition, contributing Chinese solutions and wisdom to ensuring the consistency, credibility, and comparability of global measurement results.