1. What is metrology?
   Metrology could be characterized as «the science of metrology». We are referring to this when we want to determine objectively the price of some quantity as the length, the weight or the time.
   In the European countries and in America, Metrology has been developed since the earliest 1900, while in Greece it began much later, roughly in early of 90.
   
   
2. What it is the importance of E.Ι.M for the society?
   Metrology is extremely important for the society, since in industry, in commercial organisms and in institutions the quality of products and guarantees they offer it possess sovereign place. These can be ensured via precise, sure and reliable measurements and controls.
   
   
3. In whom does the E.Ι.M belong?
   The Greek Institute of metrology (EIM) is NPID, belongs to the wider public sector, is overseen by the General Secretariat of Industry of Ministry of Growth and constitutes the official institution and adviser of state on issues concerning measurements and metrological policy. It was found in the year 1994 with the law 2231/94 and has his seat in the industrial park of Thessalonica, in Sindos.
   
   
4. How much does the offer of services of verifications cost in the E.I.M?
   One can find the cost of benefit of services of verification in E.I.M in the following link.
   
   
5. When the appliances and the bodies of an enterprise should be verified?
   Initially, we should report that all the appliances that are used directly or indirectly in the productive process or in the various phases of control of the quality should be verified periodically since there are normally divergences being observed with the byway of time.
   The constructor fixes the foreseen frequency while in communication with the laboratories of EIM you can have further briefing.
   
   
6. What are verification and why the systematic verification of enterprises' appliances is so much important for them?
   Verification is the process of comparing bodies with other model- bodies of big precision and uncertainty, so as to find whether the realized and technical characteristics of checked bodies are inside the forecasted tolerances.
   The profit that results for the enterprise that applies the verification of bodies appliances, is the improvement of quality, the reduction of production cost and more generally the safe and right operation of her installations while simultaneously, the honesty in the commercial transactions and mainly in consumers' protection is ensured.
   
   
7. What are the abilities of E.I.M?
   The services of verification of metrological bodies in the E.I.M find itself in very high level comparable to the rest European institutes. One can find Concrete information for each sector following these link.
   
   
8. Which is the difference between calibration and verification?
   Both procedures serve to check the accuracy of a measuring instrument. However, while law for certain measuring instrument categories has prescribed verification, calibrations are carried out on a voluntary basis unless you have introduced a quality management system. In this case you must act according to the standards, which prescribe, among other things, that your measuring instruments must have been calibrated.
   
   
9. How cans one contact with E.I.M?
   The ways of communication are found in this following link.
   
   
10. How can someone reach to E.I.M?
    The information is found here.