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QUALEB III supported the National Metrology Council to facilitate the implementation of the Metrology Law, including the development of a National Metrology Policy.  And it provided training national legal metrology experts in Lebanon enabling them to enforce the new metrology regulations.

Metrology is separated into three categories with different levels of complexity and accuracy; these are: Legal, Industrial, Scientific and International metrologies

Legal Metrology is concerned with measurements where these influence the transperancy of economic transactions, healthy and safety .

Legal metrology is operating under the authority of the Consumer Protection Directorate at the Ministry of Economy and Trade.

Lebanon does not have a functioning legal metrology system. The Metrology Law and the creation of the National Metrology Council are major steps toward its creation. The twinning activities has targeted the implementation of the Metrology Law and the support of the Council. From the beneficiary side, it is necessary to set metrology priorities and to consider how to allocate resources to the Council in order to support the delivery of its work (see project assumptions).

Nevertheless, there are already some activities conducted in legal metrology, mainly on calibration of petrol pumps and tankers. The twinning activities has also targeted specific metrology issues through training and workshops

Industrial Metrology has to ensure the adequate functioning of measurement instruments used in industry as well as in production and testing processes.

Metrological activities, testing and measurements are valuable inputs to ensuring the quality of many industrial activities. This includes the need for traceability, which is becoming just as important as measurement itself. Recognition of metrological competence at each level of the traceability chain can be established by mutual recognition agreements or arrangements, for example the CIPM MRA and ILAC MRA in addition to accreditation and peer review.

Scientific metrology deals with the organization and development of measurement standards and with their maintenance (highest level).

Scientific metrology is divided into 9 technical subject fields by BIPM: Mass, electricity, length, time and frequency, thermometry, ionizing radiation and radioactivity, photometry and radiometry, acoustics and amount of substance.

Within EURAMET there are two additional subject fields: Flow and interdisciplinary metrology. There is no formal international definition of the subfields.

The International Organisation of Legal Metrology OIML was established in 1955 on the basis of a convention in order to promote the global harmonisation of legal metrology procedures. OIML is an intergovernmental treaty organisation with 58 member countries, which participate in technical activities, and 51 corresponding member countries that join the OIML as observers. OIML collaborates with the Metre Convention and BIPM on the international harmonisation of legal metrology. OIML liaises with more than 100 international and regional institutions concerning activities in metrology, standardisation and related fields.