Directorate of Measures and Precious Metals on June 20, 2014, held a meeting of the authorized bodies for performing verification of weighing instruments. Meeting was attended by Mrs. Vida Živković, M.Sc., Director of Directorate of Measures and Precious Metals, Lucija Dujović, Assistant Director of Directorate of Measures and Precious Metals, Dragutin Veljković, Head of Department for control and supervision Kruševac, Dejan Kovačević, Head of Department for control and supervision Belgrade, and technical managers of authorized bodies for performing verification of weighing instruments.

Topic of the meeting was to resolve issues related to the irregularities observed in the operaton of the authorized bodies for performing verification of weighing instruments and coordination of their future work, as well as issues regarding the application of the new Regulation on non-automatic weighing instruments (“Official Gazette of RS”, No. 17/13) from January 1, 2016, and the new Regulation on measuring instruments (“Official Gazette of RS”, No. 63/13) from January 1, 2017.

In her opening address Mrs. Vida Živković, M.Sc., among other things, emphasized that tasks of verification of weighing instruments authorized bodies perform as duties assigned by the state administration, and accordingly must take into account the fulfillment of requirements in terms of impartiality and independence, and in terms of mutual cooperation and the establishment of partnership based on trust.