SEDD hosts Weights and Scales Technical Regulations workshop

SEDD hosts Weights and Scales Technical Regulations workshop

SHARJAH, 17th October 2022 (WAM) –- The Sharjah Economic Development Department (SEDD) and the Sharjah Cooperative Society held a workshop to present the local regulations and guidelines governing scales.

This is part of SEDD's initiative to enhance ties with commercial partners and as part of its role in raising public awareness of its efforts to regulate the emirate's markets and disseminate information about the officially recognised system of weights and measures.

The workshop was planned to better enable directors, heads of branches, and employees of the Sharjah Cooperative Society with the most recent information in the fields of law and cooperative management.

The obligatory standards of the UAE in the areas of weighing and measuring were also reviewed. In addition, it involved applying the most up-to-date global best practices and the guidance provided by the International Organisation for Legal Metrology (OIML) on the establishment of metrological signs in practical settings to better define the verification mechanisms used in these contexts.

These workshops are part of SEDD's strategy to implement several metrology monitoring programmes. Such actions are intended to protect the emirate's markets from weight fraud and manipulation, as well as to raise awareness among the owners of those commercial establishments about the importance of