APLMF GA and Working Group Meetings COUNTRY REPORT

APLMF GA and Working Group Meetings COUNTRY REPORT: PAPUA NEW GUINEA 24 November 2016 Tokyo, Japan Joseph Panga Assistant Director Metrology Division Laboratory Manager Measurement Standards Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Industrial Technology Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea Location: South Pacific, Oceania Climate: Hot, wet tropical Main industry: Agriculture, petroleum, fishery, mining & food manufacturing Government type: Federal Parliamentary Democracy Capital city: Port Moresby Religion: Christian Population: 8, 000 (2016 est. ) Languages: English, Pidgin, Hiri Motu plus over 800 different languages 24 November 2016 APLMF GA & WORKING GROUP MEETINGS, TOKYO 2

PNG People & Cultures 24 November 2016 APLMF GA & WORKING GROUP MEETINGS, TOKYO 3

PNG People & Cultures 24 November 2016 APLMF GA & WORKING GROUP MEETINGS, TOKYO 4

NISIT MINISTRY OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY CORPORATE SERVICES DIVISION TECHNICAL STANDARDS DIVISION 24 November 2016 NISIT DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY INVESTMENT PROMOTION AUTHORITY LABORATORY ACCREDITATION DIVISION CERTIFICATION DIVISION METROLOGY DIVISION APLMF GA & WORKING GROUP MEETINGS, TOKYO SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INDUSTRIAL CENTRE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION 5

Metrology Division The Metrology Division of NISIT through the NISIT Act is mandated to establish and disseminate Scientific, Industrial and Legal Metrology support services. METROLOGY DIVISION LEGAL METROLOGY SECTION 24 November 2016 INDUSTRIAL METROLOGY SECTION APLMF GA & WORKING GROUP MEETINGS, TOKYO SCIENTIFIC METROLOGY SECTION 6

Measurement Standards Laboratory The Metrology Division of NISIT operates the Measurement Standards Laboratory to disseminate Scientific, Industrial and Legal Metrology support services to the industries and general public in PNG. METROLOGY DIVISION MEASUREMENT STANDARDS LABORATORY 24 November 2016 v MSL plays the role of an NMI in Papua New Guinea. v MSL also acts as the central agency coordinating efforts towards harmonizing processes and practices for state agencies having LM functions in Health, Safety, Environment and Trade. APLMF GA & WORKING GROUP MEETINGS, TOKYO 7

PNG National Metrology Infrastructure v PNG pre independence had a Weights and Measures Act with subsequent Regulations which essentially took care of the fundamental Legal Metrology matters. v The other now clearly identified areas apart from the traditional Weights and Measures like in health, environment and safety since independence were parked under different government agencies. v In 1993, NISIT was established, however, the above situation still remains. v Respective organizations have not been working together as a system to at least effect this. There is still a lack of common understanding or collaboration. v BOTTOM LINE: PNG has a fragmented and dysfunctional metrology infrastructure (we are now working on correcting this ) 24 November 2016 APLMF GA & WORKING GROUP MEETINGS, TOKYO 8

Examples of agencies involved in LM v Independent Competition and Consumer Commission v PNG Power v Water PNG v Department of Petroleum and Energy v Department of Health v Department of Labour v Department of Land Transport v National Roads Authority 24 November 2016 APLMF GA & WORKING GROUP MEETINGS, TOKYO 9

Examples of agencies involved in LM (2) v Independent Competition and Consumer Commission (ICCC) is conducting inspections/verifications for Pre-packaged Goods, Weighing Instruments in Market and Fuel Dispensers. Trade Measurement Act is in the custody of the ICCC has four regional offices with about 3 staff each. Port Moresby, Lae, Mt Hagen and Kokopo. v PNG Power is conducting inspections/verifications for Electricity Meters within its Test Branch. They also do Test Approvals for electrical/electronic items. There about 20 officers working at its Test Branch. Port Moresby v Health Department is responsible for conducting inspections/verifications for Medical measuring devices. A Biomedical Engineering Unit is established under this Department to carry out the legal metrology activities for medical devices. There about 5 officers – Port Moresby and Lae. 24 November 2016 APLMF GA & WORKING GROUP MEETINGS, TOKYO 10

Examples of agencies involved in LM (3) v Water PNG is responsible for conducting inspections/verifications for water meters. There is a testing facility for water meters in Lae with 5 staff. v Land Transport Dept is responsible conducting inspections/verifications for Taxi and Speedo meter. They are not doing these yet. The Transport Department is in Port Moresby v Department of Petroleum and Energy are responsible for Gas meters. This is not being done yet. Again based in Port Moresby. v National Roads Authority is responsible for conducting inspections/verifications for weighing bridges. Less than 5 staff are doing this work. Also based in Port Moresby v Department of Labour regulates industrial safety which includes doing verifications and inspections of safety equipment 24 November 2016 APLMF GA & WORKING GROUP MEETINGS, TOKYO 11

Legal metrology control in above areas? v Calibrations are mostly done by NISIT through the MSL. v Initial Verifications and Period verifications are done by respective bodies mentioned previously, though such activities are not done as expected v Repairs, service or replacements are done by the respective bodies too v OIML recommendations, National regulations, Manufacturer‘s procedures are currently being used throughout v Most of the control are not in sync with the current OIML recommendations. National regulation and manufacturer‘s procedures have been used for a long time without any significant improvement APLMF GA & WORKING GROUP MEETINGS, TOKYO 12

Top 3 areas of Metrology that NISIT is doing well v Maintaining National Primary Standards v Coordinating the collaboration of state agencies or departments responsible for legal metrology functions v Up to date with our compatibility to OIML procedures 24 November 2016 APLMF GA & WORKING GROUP MEETINGS, TOKYO 13

Top 3 areas NISIT needs improvement on v Facilitating the use of updated procedures by other legal metrology bodies to be compatible to the OIML v Facilitating trainings for these organizations v Ensuring that a functional legal metrology system is working within the economy 24 November 2016 APLMF GA & WORKING GROUP MEETINGS, TOKYO 14

Way forward for NISIT v Facilitate trainings for other organizations with legal metrology functions such as PNG Power, Water PNG, etc. v NISIT to ensure that appropriate practices and procedures are implemented effectively. OIML Recommendations, Regulations, etc. v NISIT has a number of key projects currently; • Review of the NISIT Act of 1993 • Organizational restructure • Relocation v Introduction of National Quality Policy v Introduction of a Metrology Act and Regulations END OF COUNTRY REPORT 24 November 2016 APLMF GA & WORKING GROUP MEETINGS, TOKYO 15