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AACC American Association for Clinical Chemistry (United States)
AAEC Australian Atomic Energy Commission, Sutherland (Australia) --see ANSTO
AAPT American Association of Physics Teachers, College Park MD (United States)
AATN Asociación Argentina de Tecnología Nuclear (Argentina)
AECL Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (Canada)
AGAL* Australian Government Analytical Laboratories (Australia) --see NMIA
AIST National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Japan)
AMMAC Asociación Mexicana de Metrología, A.C. (Mexico)
ANSTO Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Menai (Australia)
AOA Allen Osborne Associates Inc.
AOAC International Association of Analytical Communities
AOS Astrogeodynamical Observatory, Borowiec (Poland)
APL Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel (United States)
APMP Asia Pacific Metrology Programme
APMP/TCRI Asia Pacific Metrology Programme, Technical Committee on Ionizing Radiation
ARC Austrian Research Center, Seibersdorf (Austria)
AREPA AREPA Test and Kalibrering A/S, Silkeborg (Denmark)
ARL* Australian Radiation Laboratory, Yallambie (Australia) --see ARPANSA
ARPANSA (formerly the ARL) Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency, Yallambie (Australia)
ASTM ASTM International
AUS Consortium of laboratories in Australia (Australia)
BAM Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung, Berlin (Germany)
BARC Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai (India)
BCR Community Bureau of Reference of the Commission of the European Communities
BCRU British Committee on Radiological Units (United Kingdom)
BEV Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen, Vienna (Austria)
BIH* Bureau International de l'Heure
BIM Bulgarian Institute of Metrology, Sofia (Bulgaria)
BIPM International Bureau of Weights and Measures/Bureau International des Poids et Mesures
BIRM Beijing Institute of Radio Metrology and Measurement, Beijing (China)
BMZ Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (Germany)
BNM* Bureau National de Métrologie, Paris (France) --see LNE
BNM-INM* Bureau National de Métrologie, Institut National de Métrologie, Paris (France) --see LNE-INM/Cnam
BNM-LNE* Bureau National de Métrologie, Laboratoire National d'Essais, Paris (France) --see LNE
BNM-LNHB* (formerly the BNM-LPRI) Bureau National de Métrologie, Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel, Gif-sur-Yvette (France) --see LNE-LNHB
BNM-LPRI* Bureau National de Métrologie, Laboratoire Primaire des Rayonnements Ionisants, Saclay (France) --see LNE-LNHB
BNM-LPTF* Bureau National de Métrologie, Laboratoire Primaire du Temps et des Fréquences, Paris (France) --see LNE-SYRTE
BNM-SYRTE* Bureau National de Métrologie, Systèmes de Référence Temps Espace, Observatoire de Paris (OP) (France) --see LNE-SYRTE
BRGM Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières, Paris (France)
CAO Cagliari Astronomical Observatory (Italy) --see SAC
CASCO Committee on Conformity Assessment
CC Consultative Committee (of the CIPM)
CCAUV Consultative Committee for Acoustics, Ultrasound and Vibration/Comité Consultatif de l'Acoustique, des Ultrasons et des Vibrations
CCDM* Consultative Committee for the Definition of the Metre/ Comité Consultatif pour la Définition du Mètre --see CCL
CCDS* Consultative Committee for the Definition of the Second/ Comité Consultatif pour la Définition de la Seconde --see CCTF
CCE* Consultative Committee for Electricity/Comité Consultatif d'Électricité --see CCEM
CCEM (formerly the CCE) Consultative Committee for Electricity and Magnetism/Comité Consultatif d'Électricité et Magnétisme
CCEMRI* Consultative Committee for Standards of Ionizing Radiation/Comité Consultatif pour les Étalons de Mesure des Rayonnements Ionisants --see CCRI
CCIR International Radio Consultative Committee/Comité Consultatif International des Radiocommunications (permanent body of ITU) --see ITU-R
CCL (formerly the CCDM) Consultative Committee for Length/ Comité Consultatif des Longueurs
CCM Consultative Committee for Mass and Related Quantities/ Comité Consultatif pour la Masse et les Grandeurs Apparentées
CCPR Consultative Committee for Photometry and Radiometry/Comité Consultatif de Photométrie et Radiométrie
CCQM Consultative Committee for Amount of Substance/Comité Consultatif pour la Quantité de Matière
CCRI (formerly the CCEMRI) Consultative Committee for Ionizing Radiation/Comité Consultatif des Rayonnements Ionisants
CCT Consultative Committee for Thermometry/Comité Consultatif de Thermométrie
CCTF (formerly the CCDS) Consultative Committee for Time and Frequency/Comité Consultatif du Temps et des Fréquences
CCU Consultative Committee for Units/Comité Consultatif des Unités
CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (United States)
CEA French Atomic Agency Commission, Paris and Saclay (France)
CEA-CESTA Centre d'Études Scientifiques et Techniques d'Aquitaine, CEA, Le Barp (France)
CEM Centro Español de Metrología, Madrid (Spain)
CENAM Centro Nacional de Metrologia, Querétaro (Mexico)
CENAMEP Centro Nacional de Metrología de Panamá (Panama)
CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva (Switzerland)
CGGTTS CCTF Working Group on GPS and GLONASS Time Transfer Standards
CGPM General Conference on Weights and Measures/ Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures
CHMI Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (Czech Republic)
CIAE Chinese Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing (China)
CIATEC Centro de Investigación y Asesoría Tecnológica en Cuero y Calzado, A.C (Mexico)
CIE International Commission on Illumination/Commission Internationale de l'Éclairage
CIEMAT Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, Madrid (Spain)
CIPM International Committee for Weights and Measures/ Comité International des Poids et Mesures
CITAC Cooperation on International Traceability in Analytical Chemistry
CLEO Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
CMI Ceský Metrologický Institut/Czech Metrology Institute, Prague and Brno (Czech Republic)
CMI-IIR CMI Inspectorate for Ionizing Radiation, Prague and Brno (Czech Republic)
CMS-ITRI Centre for Measurement Standards of the Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu (Chinese Taipei)
CNAM Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris (France)
CNEA Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
CNES Centre National d'Études Spatiales, Toulouse (France)
CNFGG Comité National Français de Géodésie et Géophysique (France)
CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Turin (Italy)
CNR-IMGC Istituto di Metrologia "G. Colonnetti", CNR, Turin (Italy) --see INRIM
CNRS Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris (France)
CODATA Committee on Data for Science and Technology
CONICET Argentine Council of Research (Argentina)
CONICET Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Argentina)
COOMET Cooperation in Metrology among the Central European Countries
COPOLCO Committee on Consumer Policy
COPUOS United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
CORM Council for Optical Radiation Measurements (United States)
CPC Conventions Product Centre of the IERS
CPEM Conference on Precision Electromagnetic Measurements
CRL* Communications Research Laboratory, Tokyo (Japan) --see NICT
CRRD Centro Regional de Referencia para la Dosimetria, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
CSAO Shaanxi Astronomical Observatory, Lintong (China)
CSIR-NML* Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, National Metrology Laboratory, Pretoria (South Africa) --see NMISA
CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Lindfield (Australia)
CSIRO-NML   --see NML CSIRO*
DANIAMET Metrological organization of Danish primary and reference laboratories (Denmark)
DANOF Département d'Astronomie Fondamentale de l'Observatoire de Paris (France) --see BNM-SYRTE*
DDEP Decay Data Evaluation Project
DFM Danish Institute of Fundamental Metrology, Lyngby) (Denmark)
DPLA Danish Primary Laboratory for Acoustics, Naerum (Denmark)
DTAG Deutsche Telekom AG, Darmstadt (Germany)
DTI Danish Technological Institute/Teknologisk Institut (Denmark)
DTU Technical University of Denmark/Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (Denmark)
ECBS WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization
ECNU East China Normal University, Shanghai (China)
EDMA European Diagnostic Manufacturers Association
EFTF European Frequency and Time Forum
EMPA Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, St Gall (Switzerland)
ENEA Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie, l'Energia e l'Ambiente, Rome (Italy)
ENEA-INMRI ENEA Istituto Nazionale di Metrologia delle Radiazioni Ionizzanti, Rome (Italy)
ENS École Normale Supérieure, Paris (France)
ENSAM École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers, Paris (France)
EQALM European Committee for External Quality Assurance Programmes in Laboratory Medicine
ERLAP European Reference Laboratory for Air Pollution, European Commission
ESA European Space Agency
ESM École Supérieure de Métrologie, Paris (France)
ETF Elektrotehnicki Fakultet/Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Zagreb (Croatia)
ETH Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule/Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (Switzerland)
ETL* Electrotechnical Laboratory, Tsukuba (Japan) --see AIST
EU European Union
EUROMET European Collaboration in Measurement Standards
FBMPM Federal Bureau of Measures and Precious Metals --see ZMDM
FCS Frequency Control Symposium
FSB Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture (Croatia)
GAW see WMO-GAW
Gosstandart of Russia Gosstandart of Russia, Moscow (Russian Federation) --see Rostekhregulirovaniye
GREX Groupe de Recherche du CNRS: Gravitation et Expériences (France)
GSD Geodetic Survey Division of Canada, Ottawa (Canada)
GT-RF CCEM Working Group on Radiofrequency Quantities/ Groupe de Travail du CCEM pour les Grandeurs aux Radiofréquences
GUM Glówny Urzad Miar/Central Office of Measures, Warsaw (Poland)
HECTEF HECTEF Standard Reference Center Foundation Ltd. (Japan)
HIRCL Hellenic Ionizing Radiation Calibration Laboratory, Athens (Greece)
HKO Hong Kong Observatory (Hong Kong (China))
HUT Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki (Finland) --see TKK
IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
IAF International Accreditation Forum
IAU