OMB Meeting Book (June 22, 2017)

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CCMAS Method Typing

Defining Methods (Type I) Determines a value that can only be arrived at in terms of the method  per se and serves by definition as the only method for establishing the  accepted value of the item measured.

 If a Type I Method is listed in STAN 234 for a particular  Commodity and Provision, no other method will be listed.

 The Criteria Approach is not applicable to Type I Methods