H.E. Mr. Abdulla bin Adel Fakhro, Minister of Industry and Commerce and Chairman of the National Committee for Standardization and Metrology, chaired the fifty-eighth meeting of the National Committee for Standardization and Metrology, in the presence of a number of officials at the Ministry and members of the Committee representing the public and private sectors.

The meeting reviewed a number of topics that included the approval of the adoption of 965 optional standard specifications and 116 technical regulations, and the withdrawal of a standard specification and a Gulf technical regulation at the national level, after competent local technical committees of the National Committee for Standardization and Metrology completed the study of these projects and ensured their suitability for application in the Kingdom of Bahrain, and notifying the World Trade Organization in order to meet the requirements of the Agreement on the Removal of Technical Barriers to Trade of the Organization. Global trade.

The meeting also reviewed the mechanism for issuing universal identification codes (WMI) for automotive manufacturers followed by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), and the Inspection and Metrology Directorate was appointed as a reference point of contact in the Kingdom of Bahrain to coordinate the registration of identification codes for local manufacturers within the international system of the Association.