Some of the duties of Inmetro are:
 to provide technical support to Conmetro - the National Metrology, Standardization and Industrial Quality Council, responsible for establishing the national policies on metrology and quality;
to implement the national policies on metrology and quality set by Conmetro;
to maintain the national measurement standards in the country; to establish and maintain their metrological traceability to the units of the International System of Units (SI), by participating in international or regional comparisons establishing their equivalence to internationally accepted standards and or to standards of other countries; to extend the traceability chain to the standards of measurement in the country, turning them internally harmonic and compatible with the international level, envisaging its worldwide acceptance, all of them necessary to assure the quality of goods and services;
to coordinate the compulsory and voluntary certification of products, processes, services and the voluntary certification of personnel;
to plan and carry out the activities of accreditation of calibration and testing labs, of proficiency test suppliers, of certification bodies, of inspection, drilling and others, all of which are necessary for the development of the infrastructure of technological services in the country;
to manage the Focal Point for Technical Barriers to Trade, responsible for the Brazilian WTO/TBT Enquiry Point, for providing Brazilian exporters with information on technical requirements, as well as supporting the Brazilian government in all international negotiations on technical barriers to trade;
to harbor the use of the management technique of quality by the Brazilian enterprises ;
to foster the presence of Brazil in the international activities related to metrology and quality, plus promoting the interchange with and international bodies. |
