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The United Arab Emirates will be fully recognized by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in France next September, making the UAE the 1st country at the GCC level to unify its measurement systems with international standards.
This came within the outcomes of the meeting of the heads and secretaries of the Gulf Metrology Committees, which was hosted by Abu Dhabi, last week. As His Excellency Abdullah Abdul Qadir Al-Maeeni, the Director General of the Emirates Authority for Standardization and Metrology “ESMA” said.
He added that the Authority will publish its national measurement capabilities in the database of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in France, in cooperation with the Emirates Metrology Institute of, as the first country In the Gulf Cooperation Council and the Middle East and North Africa, next September.
After the UAE succeeded in unifying its measurement systems, thanks to the pioneering legislative structure it possesses, and a national will to achieve this transformation towards the implementation of the international system of units of measurement.
He considered that the state’s obtaining this full recognition globally will have a positive impact on the economic, production and tourism sectors, and would save cost, effort and time, facilitate trade exchange, and support the national economy.
In line with the objectives of the National Agenda 2021 and the UAE Centennial 2071, within the efforts of the UAE to lead globally in various fields.
The comprehensive application of international measurement units supports the economic and productive sectors and stimulates tourism activity, by keeping pace with the state markets of the measurement units known to tourists from most of the world.
And thus facilitates the movement of tourists in the country with no need to convert units in products or transactions into other units. This is something that major countries have been trying to amend for decades now, and they have not finished it.
