Abstract
The economic crisis in Brazil, has led to the reduction of the services regarding periodic verifications in legal metrology, however it has been an opportunity to incentive the initiatives focusing the efficiency of the legal metrological control in Brazil. The present study presents the impact of the reduction of the budget allocate to legal metrology and the initiatives carried out by the National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology – INMETRO, and the Brazilian Network of Metrology and Quality – RBMLQ-I, in order to leverage the efficiency the services provided in legal metrology to the commerce and industry. A survey with specialists working in the sector was conducted in order to identify strategies to improve the performance of the services in legal metrology. As a result, we present and discuss the main proposed strategies, such as partnership with either different regulatory bodies or private enterprises, fraud control and the development of information systems. The presented strategies aims to improve the legal control of measuring instruments more efficiently.
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