The Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements or IRMM, located in Geel, Belgium, is one of the seven institutes of the Joint Research Centre (JRC), a Directorate-General of the European Commission (EC). // Mission The mission of the JRC is to provide customer-driven scientific and technical support for the conception, development, implementation and monitoring of EU policies. ... The European Commission (formally the Commission of the European Communities) is the executive body of the European Union. ...

The IRMM promotes a common and reliable European measurement system in support of European Union policies. The institute works on the production and dissemination of quality assurance tools, such as validated methods, reference materials, reference measurements, interlaboratory comparisons and training. This article is about the continent. ...

The institute was founded in 1957 under the Treaties of Rome and started operation in 1960 under the name of the Central Bureau for Nuclear Measurements (CBNM). In 1993 the institute was renamed to reflect the new mission of the institute, which covers a wide range of measurement problems from food safety to environmental pollution. The Treaty of Rome signing ceremony Signatures in the Treaty The Treaty of Rome refers to the treaty which established the European Economic Community (EEC) and was signed by France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg on March 25, 1957. ...

The IRMM has six core areas of competence:

• Reference materials
• Food analysis
• Bioanalysis
• Chemical reference measurements
• Radionuclide metrology
• Neutron physics

Other JRC sites

• Institute for Transuranium Elements (ITU)
• Institute for the Protection and the Security of the Citizen (IPSC)
• Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES)
• Institute for Health and Consumer Protection (IHCP)
• Institute for Energy (IE)
• Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS)

The Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) is a specialised institute of the Joint Research Centre directorate of the European Commission, based at Ispra, Italy. ...

See also

• Directorate-General of the Joint Research Centre (European Commission)
• Directorate-General for Research (European Commission)
• European Committee for Standardization
• European Reference Materials
• International Bureau of Weights and Measures
• Joint Committee for Traceability in Laboratory Medicine
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA)
• Good Laboratory Practice (GLP)
• Reference values

// Mission The mission of the JRC is to provide customer-driven scientific and technical support for the conception, development, implementation and monitoring of EU policies. ... // Mission The Directorate General’s mission is evolving as work on the European Research Area (ERA) continues. ... CEN, the European Committee for Standardization, was founded in 1961 by the national standard bodies in the European Economic Community and EFTA countries. ... The International Bureau of Weights and Measures is the English name of the Bureau international des poids et mesures (BIPM, often written in English Bureau International des Poids et Mesures), a standards organization, one of the three organizations established to maintain the International System of Units (SI) under the terms... The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, formerly known as The National Bureau of Standards) is a non-regulatory agency of the United States Department of Commerce’s Technology Administration. ... GLP It is important to be safe when playing in a lab. ... Reference value is a term used in medicine to denote a laboratory value used as a reference for values obtained by laboratory examinations of patients or samples (blood, urine or other materials) collected from patients. ...

External links

• Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (IRMM)
• Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community