Membership Criteria

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	Fees 2024	Fees 2025
1	$702	Cambodia Kiribati	Lao PDR	$730	$759	$790	$790	$790
2	$1,404	Mongolia Papua New Guinea Vietnam Peru	Nil	$1,460	$1,519	$1,579	$1,579	$1,579
3	$2,808	Brunei Darussalam Hong Kong, China Indonesia Malaysia New Zealand Philippines Singapore Thailand	Nil	$2,920	$3,037	$3,159	$3,159	$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	$6,317	$6,317
5	$11,232	Japan United States of America	Nil	$11,681	$12,149	$12,634	$12,634	$12,634

Fee from 2023 - 2025
At the 29th APLMF Forum Meeting Resolutions members agreed to a methodology to re-index the Member Economies to ensure that the fee structure remains effective and appropriate, and the results will be reported to the 30th APLMF Forum Meeting in 2023 for members’ recommendations.

Members agreed that the APLMF Secretariat and EC will complete another review of the membership fees and indexing with recommendations for change, and the result will be proposed to the 31st Forum Meeting in 2024. After this membership fees’ review is approved, it will be implemented in 2026.

During this period, members agreed that the membership fees and indexing of the Member Economies will not change from 2023 to 2025 (inclusive).