The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China is a ministerial organization directly under the State Council, which is in charge of national quality, metrology, entry-exit commodity inspection, entry-exit health and quarantine, entry-exit animal and plant quarantine, import and export food safety, certification and accreditation, standardization, etc. , the exercise of administrative law enforcement functions.
According to the authorization of the State Council, the functions of certification and accreditation and standardization management are entrusted to China National Certification and Accreditation Administration and China National Standardization Administration respectively, which are managed by AQSIQ.
Introduction to relevant management of AQSIQ
Metrology management: According to the Metrology Law and its implementing regulations, AQSIQ conducts inspection, supervision and management of imported measuring instruments, mainly including type recognition, approval and verification of imported measuring instruments.
Responsible for the implementation of legal measurement units and the national measurement system, organize the establishment, approval and management of national measurement standards and reference materials, formulate national verification system tables, verification procedures and measurement technical specifications for measuring instruments, and organize the transfer of values. Responsible for standardizing and supervising the measurement of commodity quantity.