Within the Twinning project of the European Union „Strengthening capacities of National Quality infrastructure and conformity assessment services in the Republic of Serbia“ in the Directorate of Measures and Precious Metals (hereinafter DMDM) on the November 15 and 18, were held meetings on the topic of raising awareness of entrepreneurs in Serbia about the significance, importance and benefits that brings them fulfillment of requirements of technical regulations and standards in this area.

On behalf of DMDM, the participants were welcomed by Branka Radanov PhD, Head of Section for Control and Supervision, Section Belgrade. The meeting was attended by DMDM representatives: Tatjana Cincar-Vujović, Head of Section for electrical quantities; Rade Dereta, metrologist in Section for electrical quantities; Ljiljana Mićić, Head of Group for volume and flow; Zoran Marković PhD, Head of Section for certification; Nedeljko Vukadinović, metrologist for conformity assessment and certification; Slobodan Zelenika, Head of Section for dimensional optical quantities and acoustics; Pavle Staničić, special Advisor of Director for juridical and general affairs and Željko Lalić, Ministry of Economy - Sector for Quality infrastructure and safety of products on the market. Czech National Metrology Institut (CMI) was represented by Karel Začek, resident Twinning adviser; Nikola Rašković, resident Twinning adviser assistant; Jiri Tesar PhD, Director for Fundamental Metrology and Kristina Vankurova, project manager of the National Metrology Institute of the Czech Republic.

At the meetings the colleagues from Czech Republic presented how and in which way they cooperate with entrepreneurs in sense of knowledge transfer, necessary for fulfillment of requirements of technical regulation. Future DMDM activities related to organization and planning of info – sessions have been planned. During the info – sessions the representatives of the Economy in the Republic of Serbia will be presented current technical requirements and standards in the field of metrology, with the aim of increasement of their competitiveness on the market.