The Malta Standards Authority (MSA) is Malta

Malta

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's national standards body

Standards organization

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Organization

The MSA is a government agency

Government of Malta

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 under the Office of the Prime Minister. The MSA consists of two divisions. The Legal Metrology Division is responsible for inspection and verification. The National Metrology Institute (MSA-NMS) is responsible for maintaining measurement standards for Malta.

Metrology Institute

MSA-NMS is located at the Kordin Business Incubation Centre

Industrial Estates in Malta

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 near Paola

Paola, Malta

Paola, , is a town in the Grand Harbour area of Malta, with a population of 8,856 people . It is named after its founder, the Grandmaster Antoine de Paule, but is commonly known as Raħal Ġdid, which means new town in Maltese.Paola is renowned for its shopping centres, Good Friday procession, its...

. As a national metrology institute, MSA-NMS is a member of EURAMET .

MSA-NMS has three goals .

• To provide a means of local knowledge transfer in the various measurement areas.
• To reduce the overall economic load for the acquisition of traceable measure in the same fields for all national stakeholders. In the medium to long term, MSA-NMS will be a net cost saver for Maltese stakeholders.
• To facilitate the fulfillment of traceable calibration requirements for laboratories intending to become accredited.

MSA-NMS maintains standards and is able to perform calibrations in the following measurement disciplines:

• Temperature
• Humidity
• Mass
• Dimension