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Liaison and coordination work, including providing the secretariat for the CIPM Consultative Committees and some of their Working Groups and for the CIPM MRA, and providing institutional liaison with the other bodies supporting the international quality infrastructure and other international
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Following consultation, a draft version of the BIPM Work Programme is presented at each meeting of the General Conference for consideration with the BIPM budget. The final programme of work is determined by the CIPM in accordance with the budget agreed to by the CGPM.
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in 1876. Since 1969 the site has been considered international territory, and the BIPM has all the rights and privileges accorded to an intergovernmental organisation. This status was further clarified by the French decree No 70-820 of 9 September 1970.
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The BIPM has an important role in maintaining accurate worldwide time of day. It combines, analyses, and averages the official atomic time standards of member nations around the world to create a single, official
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Capacity building and knowledge transfer programs to increase the effectiveness within the worldwide metrology community of those Member State and Associates with emerging metrology systems
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The BIPM is one of the twelve member organisations of the International Network on Quality Infrastructure (INetQI), which promotes and implements QI activities in
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Scientific and technical activities carried out in its four departments: chemistry, ionising radiation, physical metrology, and time
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The BIPM has the mandate to provide the basis for a single, coherent system of measurements throughout the world, traceable to the
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The International Bureau of Weights and Measures 1875–1975: NBS Special Publication 420
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Intergovernmental measurement science and measurement standards setting organisation
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A resource centre providing a database and publications for international metrology
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among 17 Member States (as of November 2018 there are now 59 members).
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English translations by government agencies have used the initialism
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The BIPM was created on 20 May 1875, following the signing of the
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Since its establishment, the directors of the BIPM have been:
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Page, Chester H; Vigoureux, Paul, eds. (20 May 1975).
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