The Federal Law of the Russian Federation on Assuring the Uniformity of Measurements No. 102-FL dated 26.06.2008 (as worded in Federal Laws No. 242-FZ of 18.07.2011, No. 347-FZ of 30.11.2011, No. 133-FZ of 28.07.2012, No. 338-FZ of 02.12.2013, No. 160-FZ of 23.06.2014, No. 254-FZ of 21.07.2014, No. 233-FZ of 13.07.2015, No. 496-FZ of December 27, 2019, which enters into force on September 24, 2020, No. 348-FZ of October 27, 2020, which enters into force on January 1, 2021, No. 429-FZ of December 8, 2020 (the article 87 of the law), which enters into force on December 8, 2020

Realization of this Law, fulfilment of metrological functions and terms of reference are approved by Decrees of the President of the Russian Federation - No. 314 of 9 March, 2004 and No. 649 of 20 May, 2004 and Government Directives- No. 294 of 17 June, 2004 and No. 438 of 05 June, 2008, and are implemented by the Federal Agency on Technical Regulation and Metrology (Rosstandart) under the Federal Ministry of Industry and Energy (Minpromtorg of Russia).

Minpromtorg of Russia is a Federal Executive body responsible for the development of government policy and state regulation in the field of technical regulating, standardization and ensuring uniformity of measurements.

Rosstandart is a Federal Executive body responsible for providing government services and managing state property in the field of technical regulating, standardization and ensuring the uniformity of measurements.

Rosstandart organizes the maintenance of the Federal information Fund for assuring the uniformity of measurements https://fgis.gost.ru/fundmetrology/registry

Under the responsibility of Rosstandart are national scientific metrology institutes (NMIs) and state regional centers for standardization, metrology and testing.

The main objectives of NMIs are conducting fundamental and applied scientific researches, experimental developments and scientific and technical activities in the field of assuring the measurements� uniformity; development, improvement, maintenance, comparison and application of national primary measurement standards (NPMS); the transfer of units from NPMS; participation in development of draft regulatory documents in the field of assuring the measurements� uniformity, conducting mandatory metrological expertise of requirements for measurements, reference materials and measuring instruments contained in draft normative acts of the Russian Federation; creating and maintaining the Federal Information Fund for assuring the measurements� uniformity (FIF AMU) and providing documents and information from the FIF; participating in international cooperation in the field of Metrology.

A good deal of activity regarding the development, improvement, maintenance and use of national measurement standards, as well as conduct of fundamental and applies research in the field of metrology including elaboration of normative documents of measurement uniformity assurance is carried out by Metrology Institutes of Rosstandart, which are the centers of standards on the fixed types and areas of measurements. The majority of these institutes is specialized in specific fields of measurements and accredited as state test centers of measuring instruments and verification centers, as bodies on voluntary certification of measuring instruments.

In the Russian Federation, in order to assure the measurements uniformity, metrological services may be established in Federal Executive bodies; in state corporations, legal entities and individual entrepreneurs engaged in the field of assuring the measurements uniformity.

Metrology institutes of the Russian Federation actively collaborate with national metrology centers of Germany, the USA, the United Kingdom, Slovakia, Japan, France, Korea, China, India, Belarus, Ukraine, etc.

The priority activities of regional centers for standardization, metrology and testing (FBU CSM), are: improvement, maintenance and use of national measurement standards used to ensure traceability; involvement in the provision of public services to ensure the uniformity of measurements in accordance with the scope of accreditation; conducting verification of measuring instruments included in the restrictive list of measuring instruments established by the Government of the Russian Federation; the transfer of measurement units from national measurement standards. At present, there are 74 FBU CSMs located in 8 Federal Districts in the Russian Federation located in 8 Federal districts.

Russia has 158 primary standards. Information on all standards of the Russian Federation, as well as their distribution by measurement areas and State metrological research institutes is available at: http://fgis.gost.ru/fundmetrology/registry/12

Member of the Metre Convention since 1875.
Signatory of the Mutual Recognition Agreement (CIPM MRA): Rosstandard (October 14, 1999).

Representatives of metrology institutes of the Russian Federation participate in the work of all Consultative Committees of the international Bureau of weights and measures.
Designated institutions:
VNIIM is a signatory of the CIPM MRA and may use the CIPM MRA logo since October 14 2006.
VNIIFTRI is a signatory of the CIPM MRA and may use the CIPM MRA logo since November 13 2006.
VNIIOFI is a signatory of the CIPM MRA and may use the CIPM MRA logo since November 14 2006.
VNIIMS is a signatory of the CIPM MRA and may use the CIPM MRA logo since November 07 2006.

The information about the participation of the Russian Federation in the CIPM MRA is available at
https://www.bipm.org/en/about-us/member-states/ru/cipm-mra.html.

VNIIM (including UNIIM � affiliated branch of the D.I.Mendeleyev Institute for Metrology and VNIIR - affiliated branch of the D.I.Mendeleyev Institute for Metrology) QMS confirmation of recognition (ISO/IEC 17025): QSF-R79 from 04.03.2021 until 04.03.2026
VNIIM (including UNIIM � affiliated branch of the D.I.Mendeleyev Institute for Metrology) QMS confirmation of recognition (ISO 17034): QSF-R80 from 04.03.2021 until 04.03.2026
VNIIOFI QMS confirmation of recognition (ISO/IEC 17025): QSF-R76 from 04.03.2021 until 04.03.2026
VNIIOFI QMS confirmation of recognition (ISO 17034): QSF-R77 from 04.03.2021 until 04.03.2026
VNIIFTRI (including branches West-Siberian (Novosibirsk) and East-Siberian (Irkutsk) QMS confirmation of recognition (ISO/IEC 17025): QSF-R78 from 04.03.2021 until 04.03.2026
VNIIMS QMS confirmation of recognition (ISO/IEC 17025): QSF-R75 from 04.03.2021 until 04.03.2026

KCDB database: https://www.bipm.org/kcdb/cmc/quick-search?keywords=russia

COOMET database: http://www.coomet.org/DB/com/index.htm?RU,CMC_RU,RU

OIML Member state
https://www.oiml.org/en/structure/members/contactmember_view?IDCountry=178&CountryName=RUSSIAN%20FEDERATION&iso=RU&M=1

The specialists of Russian NMIs participate in work of all OIML TCs/PCs.
Russian Federation maintains the Secretariats of the following OIML TCs/PCs:

TC 10/SC 2 "PRESSURE GAUGES WITH ELASTIC SENSING ELEMENTS" (VNIIMS);
TC 11/SC 1 "RESISTANCE THERMOMETERS" (VNIIM);
TC 11/SC 3 "RADIATION THERMOMETERS" (VNIIM);
TC 15 "Measuring instruments for ionizing radiations" (VNIIFTRI);
TC 15/SC 1 "Measuring instruments for ionizing radiations used in medical applications" (VNIIFTRI);
TC 17 "Instruments for physico-chemical measurements" (VNIIM);
TC 17/SC 2 "Saccharimeters" (VNIIM);
TC 17/SC 3 "pH-metry" (VNIIFTRI);
TC 17/SC 4 "Conductometry" (VNIIM);
TC 17/SC 5 "Viscosimetry" (VNIIM);
TC 17/SC 6 "Gas analysis" (VNIIM);
TC 18/SC 4 "Bio-electrical instruments" (VNIIOFI);
TC 3/�� 3 "Reference materials" (VNIIM);
TC 7/�� 1 "Measuring instruments for length" (VNIIM);
TC 9/�� 4 "Densities" (VNIIM).

The information about the participation of Russian Federation in OIML TCs/PCs work is available at:
https://www.oiml.org/en/tc-sc-pg/scinfo_view?idsc=41&sclabel=pH-metry&idtc=17&tcnum=17&tclabel=Instruments%20for%20physico-chemical%20measurements&scnum=3