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Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying
Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen – BEV

The mission of the Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying is manifold: surveying and geoinformation as well as metrology and verification. The headquarters of the BEV is in Vienna, its 57 regional offices are spread all over Austria.

The core tasks of the “BEV Surveying Service” are control survey, administration and maintenance of the cadastre, to document and spatialize real estate, but also topographic land surveying. The spatial base data resulting from these operations form the basis of the Austrian geodata infrastructure. Important fields of application are for example: regional planning, telematics/traffic control, environmental and nature conservation, national defence, internal security as well as agriculture and forestry.

The “BEV Metrology Service” comprises the National Metrology Institute and the National Verification Authority. The BEV, as National Metrology Institute, is responsible for the maintenance and further development of the national measurement standards. The tasks of the verification authority entail measures for legal metrology enforcement, which should guarantee the necessary measurement accuracy to protect economy and society as well as the lawfulness/legality of these measurements. The implementation of these tasks secures Austria’s metrological infrastructure and is a prerequisite for industrial production, trade and services as well as for the protection and safety of the people and the environment.