!!!Eich- und Vermessungswesen

Weights, Measures and Surveying are within the competence of the 
Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs. Weights and measures are based 
on the Weights and Measures Act of 1950, which specifies the following 
units of measure: meter, kilogram, second, square meter, cubic meter, 
litre and their multiples and fractions. All measuring instruments 
have to be calibrated to these units. The Federal Office of Weights, 
Measures and Surveying and all agencies subordinated to it are in 
charge of standardisation. All measuring instruments which are used in 
the public sector for the determination of quantity, quality and 
capacity (e.g. scales, measuring devices, thermometers, taxameter) are 
subject to calibration and have to be adjusted at regular intervals. 
Standardisation includes standard specification and stamping of 
measuring devices (the term "standardised" is registered).

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Regulations regarding surveying are laid down in the Surveying Act of 
1968. Surveying mainly includes: land-area surveying, maintenance and 
installation of border registers, topographic surveying for 
cartographic purposes, production of official maps and surveying and 
marking state borders. These tasks are carried out by the Federal 
Office of Weights, Measures and Surveying and all agencies 
subordinated to it.

!Literature
F. Bernhardt and H. W. Kaluza, Das oesterreichische 
Mass- und Eichrecht, 1979; R. Dittrich, F. Hrbek and H. W. 
Kaluza, Das oesterreichische Vermessungsrecht, 1985.


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