COOMET is a regional organisation originally establishing cooperation of national metrology institutions of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. It was founded in June, 1991 and renamed in Euro-Asian Cooperation of National Metrology Institutions in May, 2000. COOMET is open for any metrology institutions from other regions to join as associate members.

Now the members of COOMET are metrology institutions from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Georgia, Germany (Associate Member), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, DPR of Korea (Associate Member), Cuba (Associate Member), Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Romania, Slovakia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine.

The basic activity of COOMET is cooperation in the following areas: measurement standards of physical quantities, legal metrology, accreditation and quality management systems, information and training.

The main goal of TC 1.9 “Ionizing radiation and radio-activity”, which works on the base of All-Russian scientific-research institute of applied-physics and radio engineering metrology (Russia), is directed at organization of activities in metrology of ionizing radiation and radio-activity within the COOMET.

At the session, it is planned to consider issues of pattern-matching in ionizing radiation and radio-activity and consider strategic development of cooperation within TC 1.9 and other issues.