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Short IMEKO News October 2021

Presidential Board meeting
The Presidential Board met on the 6th of October and agreed on the following:

  • New TC Events and new TC Members shall be approved quickly in between TB and GC Sessions.
  • If there are no GC and TB Sessions, the TB will evaluate and agree on the TC Events per correspondence, and the Presidential Board will approve them.
  • The TB approves the new TC Members per correspondence from time to time.
  • The PB evaluates new Member Organisations' applications and may grant observer status until the next GC Session.
  • The Board agreed that two Technical Board Sessions would be required a year instead of one.
  • These much-needed solutions have been sought because IMEKO is growing, and the procedures must be adapted.
  • The Board approved the updated guide "How to organise IMEKO TC Conferences, Symposia and Workshops", which will replace the old one in the coming days. This update made the guide compatible with the IMEKO new Constitution.
  • The Board granted observer status to the United Arab Emirates.

The IMEKO World Congress 2021
It was a very successful event for the local organisers as well as for IMEKO. The challenges presented by the online event instead of in-person have been very well overcome.

News on the Working Groups
A lot has been achieved, especially on "TC functioning" and "IMEKO Publishing activities". The Technical Board plans a workshop in March for our working groups for presentations and a follow-up discussion on their work and achievements.

TC24 Chemical Measures
Technical Committee 24 welcomes now quite a few new members and has a meeting on the 14th of October. Professor Frank Härtig, our President; MSc Mladen Jakovcic, member organisation delegate of Croatia and vice-chair to TC11 support the new activities such as the plans for a conference in 2022.

News on the Secretariat
The IMEKO headquarters are moving to a new location with the 1st of November. The Secretariat kindly ask everybody to use the known electronic channels for communication.