APLMF Membership Criteria

  Membership to the APLMF is open to legal metrology authorities established by an economy within the Asia-Pacific Region and other economies within the region with links to APEC.​

Full membership is available to:

• APEC members  
• Official APEC observer members  
• ASEAN members
• Pacific Island Forum (PIF) members
• Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) members

​APLMF membership has three membership categories:

• Full member
• Corresponding member 
• Observer

Corresponding membership is available to any economy that fulfils the criteria for full membership and has an interest in the work of the forum. It is anticipated that a corresponding member will become a full member over time.

Observer category support economies in the wider region, not aligned with APEC but who are interested in improving legal metrology capability within their economy. 
 
Full membership benefits:

• Full access and voting rights at forum meetings
• Voting on member papers and documents
• Access to training programmes
• Involvement in the development and publication of guide documents.  
• Participation in Working Groups that interest their economy’s priorities
• Participation in surveys which are used to establish APLMF priorities
• Subsidised attendance at the annual forum meeting

 Corresponding membership benefits:

• Invitation to attend the forum meeting as an observer at a cost of US$300 per person
• Access to training programmes
• Access to publications and guide documents

Observer category benefits:

•  Invitation to attend the Annual Forum and Working Group Meeting. Attendees at the Meetings would be required to pay an attendance fee of US$500 per person.
• Promotional content and technical guides.
• Invitation to attend training programmes.

Note:  Attendance at the meetings and training would be on a user pays basis they would not be eligible for any subsidies. 
Note:  Observers would not be eligible for full or corresponding membership.

​Full membership annual fees 

• The APLMF fee structure is an equitable membership fee structure based on an economies economic development discounted for GDP per capita.
• There are five categories

Fee Structure and Current Members

From 2020 Corresponding Member economies will be charged an annual  fee of USD250 per annum and attendance at the Annual Forum meeting will attract a fee of  USD300 per person to be paid before attendance. 

Category	Fee (USD $)	Full membership economies	Corresponding membership economies	Fees 2021	Fees 2022	Fees 2023
1	$702	​​Cambodia Kiribati	Lao PDR	$730	$759	$790
2	$1,404	Mongolia Papua New Guinea Vietnam	​Chile Colombia Mexico ​Peru	$1,460	$1,519	$1,579
3	$2,808	​Brunei Darussalam Hong Kong, China Indonesia Malaysia New Zealand Philippines Singapore ​Thailand	Nil	$2,920	$3,037	$3,159
4	$5,616	Australia Canada People's Republic of China Republic of Korea ​Chinese Taipei	​Russian Federation	$5,841	$6,074	$6,317
5	$11,232	​Japan ​United States of America	Nil	$11,681	$12,149	$12,634

Fees and indexing will be reviewed in 2022 and set for the the period 2024 - 2028.