Directorate of Measures and Precious Metals on December 6 and 7, 2011, was realized peer visit by technical experts of the Bulgarian national institute, Bulgarian Institute of Metrology - BIM, in the fields of mass, temperature, time and frequency and acoustics.

Based on EURAMET Project No. 1208 and EURAMET Guide for onsite visits, collegial assessment was conducted according to ISO/IEC 17025:2005, checking to management requirements and technical requirements for calibration laboratories, in the mentioned areas for published calibration services CMCs in BIPM KCDB and for CMCs, which are being revised or are planning to be submitted to their regional metrology organization in the near future. The two-day highly interactive work and a collegiate atmosphere, sharing expert knowledge, resulting the perceptions of the management system, given in the peer visit report, which provides the foundation for the improvement of the quality management system. The results of peer visit and improving quality management system in DMDM will be presented at the meeting TC-Q, 2012, in Warsaw, Poland.