The Sector for Metrological Traceability and National Measurement Standards carries out the following Bureau’s activities:

• Establishment, maintenance and conservation of national measurement standards;
• Improvement and advancement of metrological properties of national measurement standards and provision of their participation in international activities;
• Establishment of metrological traceability;
• Establishment of the national system of units of measurement prescribed by the Law on Metrology and related bylaws;
• Calibration of measurement standards;
• Examination of working standards and other measurement equipment;
• Realization of the national time-scale, distribution and time distribution control;
• Carrying out of metrological expertise;
• Type-examination of measuring instruments;
• Testing of reference materials used to achieve traceability in the field of metrology in chemistry and other fields of measurement;
• Giving expert opinion for the authorization of persons carrying out activities in the field of metrology;
• Participation in key interlaboratory comparisons at the international level;
• Participation in scientific and research activities;
• Preparation of expert grounds for drafting regulations in the field of metrology;
• Drafting studies, analysis, and research-development projects in the field of metrology;
• Establishment and maintenance of the quality system;
• Improvement and development of information and communication technologies in the Bureau;
• Creation and implementation of work procedures with information and communication technologies;
• Administration of the local network, external communications and the Internet;
• Development and updating of the Bureau’s website;
• Primary maintenance of LAN, communications and application software;
• Introduction, installation and reinstallation of the system and network software, program systems and databases;
• Providing expert opinion regarding metrology-related questions.

Laboratories within the Sector for Metrological Traceability and National Measurement Standards:

• Laboratory for Mass;
• Laboratory for Large Mass;
• Laboratory for Pressure;
• Laboratory for Length;
• Laboratory for Small Volumes;
• Laboratory for Large Volumes;
• Laboratory for Electrical Quantities;
• Laboratory for Temperature;
• Laboratory for Electrical Power;
• Laboratory for Time and Frequency;
• Laboratory for Ionizing Radiation.