​Working Group on Goods Packed by Measure

Terms of Reference

BACKGROUND
The Working Group on Goods packed by Measure, originally known as Prepacked Articles, was established at the inaugural APLMF meeting held in Sydney in November 1994.  It is recognized that there has been a great expansion in the quantity of goods that are packaged and measured before sale. The basic trade measurement principle is that these goods should meet similar requirements to goods measured at the time of sale, such as no short measure, identification of the packer on the packet, standard sizes, permitted deficiencies, drained weight and deceptive packaging, all of which may constitute technical barriers to trade.  

SCOPE
The Working Group on Requirements for Prepacked Articles covers the legislative and administrative requirements for prepacked commodities, including controls on; insufficient quantities to the tolerable deficiencies, identification of the packer on the label, standard sizes, drained weight and deceptive packaging.

OBJECTIVES
To harmonize the requirements for prepacked commodities in the Asia-Pacific economies with a view to removing technical barriers to trade.

TARGETED OUTCOMES
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Membership

CHAIR:  Ms Faith TAN, Enterprise Singapore
Dr Rifan ARDIANTO, Directorate of Metrology, Ministry of Trade​, Indonesia
Mr ING Sophearath, National Metrology Center of Cambodia
Mr Suhaidah AMIZAM, SIRIM, Malaysia
Mr Phil SORRELL, Trading Standards, MBIE, New Zealand
Ms Loreibelle ABIAN, Industrial Technology Development Institute, Taguig City, Philippines
Miss Aungkana CHITANUNTANA ​Bureau of Weights and Measures (BWM), Thailand
Current Work Programme
As agreed at the 26th APLMF Meeting in 2019. 
  1. Organise training course on pre-packaged products with variety of product scopes and topic on law enforcement
  2. Finalise eLearning module on quantity test of pre-packaged product
  3. Organise workshop on OIML Guide 21/2017 on guidance for defining the requirements for a certification system for pre-packages

History

  • 1994:  Prepacked Articles, was established at the inaugural APLMF meeting held in Sydney in November 1994.  ​
  • 2014: Chair - Mr Kevin Gudmundsson, Trading Standards, New Zealand.
  • 2015:  Training Course on Pre-Packaged goods under MEDEA Work package 1 was delivered in May 2015 in Bandung, Indonesia
  • 2017:  Chair passed to  Mr Phil Sorrell, Trading Standards, New Zealand.
  • 2018:  Training Course on Pre-Packaged Goods under MEDEA Work package 1 was delivered in April 2018 in Nanning, China
  • 2018:  Chair - Mr Phili Sorrell, Trading Standards, New Zealand resigned  (Nov 2018)
  • 2018:  Chair - Dr Rifan Ardianto, Directorate of Metrology, Indonesia - appointed (Nov 2018)
  • 2019:  Membership formalised to include Cambodia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand

Resources

2025 APLMF FROZEN SEAFOOD SURVEILLANCE
  1. Program Plan
  2. Meeting recording – 16 April 2025
  3. Slides for meeting – 16 April 2025
  4. R87 Annex D.4 procedure guides
  5. R87 Annex D.5 procedure guides
  6. Video of the test procedure: 
       7.   Data record template​


TEST TEMPLATES ​
WORKING GROUP REPORTS​