Mozambique: INOQ to certify breathalysers, speed cameras – Carta

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Mozambique: INOQ to certify breathalysers, speed cameras – Carta

8:21 CAT | 17 Nov 2021

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The National Institute for Standardisation and Quality (INNOQ) is to take on the certifying of speed cameras, breathalysers and taxi meters, with the aim of guaranteeing instrument quality and credibility of measurements.

The move was announced in Maputo last week by the head of the Metrology Department at INNOQ, Bernardo Mussagy, speaking during a seminar on quality matters for journalists.

Mussagy hinted that INNOQ’s intention, which has not yet been scheduled, falls under the legal rubric, being dedicated to the development and implementation of a weights and measures program to ensure the quality and credibility of measurements related to official controls, trade, health, safety and the environment.

“INNOQ is building capacity to check speed cameras, breathalysers and taxi meters and, finally, grant a certificate laying out the margin of error associated with each instrument,” he said.

INNOQ says it already has the necessary professional and technical resource for the task, and lacks only the regulation of the measure, within the scope of Decree-Law No. 2/2010 of 31st December, which establishes the provisions that govern metrology in the country.

By Evaristo Chilingue

Source: Carta de Moçambique