is one assay office at Espoo. The assay office is privatized and the concession was awarded to Inspecta Corporation is an independent, international qualification requirements fulfilling inspection, testing, measurement and certification services provider. Hungarian assay office There is one assay office at Budapest. Latvian assay office There is one assay office at Riga. Lithuanian assay office There is one assay office at Druskininkai. Norwegian assay office Norwegian Assay Office is part of Justervesenet, located at Kjeller, just outside Oslo Polish assay offices There are ten assay offices at: Polish Assay Offices test and mark precious metal alloy articles (gold, silver and platinum group metals). They also supervise compliance with Hallmarking Law at processing plants and precious metal alloy sales points. All Assay Offices must report to the Central Office of Measures. Portuguese assay offices There are two assay offices at Slovak assay offices There is one Assay Office with four Branches at: Swedish assay office The Swedish assay office, the SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, is in Borås. The assay office is privatized and the concession, given to the Inspecta Corporation, is an independent, international qualification requirements fulfilling inspection, testing, measurement and certification services provider. Inspecta is accredited by SWEDAC. Bahrain assay office The Directorate of Precious Metals & Gemstone Testing is one of fourteen directorates forming the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism. The directorate itself is composed of two sections that deal with assaying and gemmology and the three main functions of the directorate as a whole are: 1. Serving the trade and public with their gemmological and assaying needs. 2. Overseeing the local jewellery sector to ensure that traders adhere to national and international laws and nomenclature. 3. Protecting consumers and the trade from fraud within the market place. The two sections of the Directorate deal with all aspects of gemmology and precious metal assaying and have existed for over a decade. The Assay Office was established in 1979 via Amiri Decree No.19 and the Gem & Pearl Testing Laboratory followed in 1990 via Amiri Decree No. 10. Both sections were amongst the first to be established in the Middle East and since their establishment they have developed a positive reputation within the Middle East and beyond. Japanese assay office There is one assay office at Saitama: the Saitama blanch of Japan Mint. Japan Mint has assayed and hallmarked from 1929, and the Saitama blanch moved