The Saudi Organization for Standardization, Metrology, and Quality (SASO)  argued merchants and owners of gold and jewelry shops to initiate subjecting the scales to periodic verification on annual basis, to ensure the accuracy of their measurement, and to fulfill the requirements of the Law of Calibration and Measurements and its technical appendixes.

SASO clarified that the current year will witness a major expansion of the national program for legal Calibration “Taqyees” with the services of verification and type approval of scales used in the sale and purchase of precious metals around the Kingdom.

The Saudi Standards confirmed that failure to comply with the requirements of the Law of Calibration and Measurement will expose the owners of the violating facilities to penalties,  also called on all manufacturers, importers, and users of legal measuring devices to register their own scales model on the Taqyes electronic platform, and submit requests for verification before selling in the market.

It is noteworthy that one of the most important objectives of the legal calibration initiative is to ensure the accuracy of the legal measuring devices used in commercial exchange operations such as fuel pumps, scales, and electricity meters, according to the relative Saudi standard, in addition to raising the level of transparency in the service provided to the final consumer and achieving the principles of Fairtrade that guarantees consumer and merchant rights.