BIPM - CIPM

Outcomes from the CIPM's most recent meetings:

106	October 2017
105	October 2016
104(II)	October 2015
104(I)	March 2015
103(II)	November 2014

[ See meeting reports ]

in French: Comité international des poids et mesures

CIPM Consultative Committees
CIPM Sub-Committees and ad hoc Groups
Joint Working Groups

		CIPM Sub-Committee for Strategy
		CIPM Sub-Committee on Finance
		Pension Fund Advisory Board

		CIPM ad hoc Working Group on Conditions of Employment
		CIPM ad hoc Working Group on Implementing the Recommendations from the Review of the CIPM MRA
		CIPM ad hoc Working Group on Membership [Having completed its mission, this group was closed by the CIPM in March 2015.]
		CIPM Task Group for Promotion of the SI

		CCAUV: Consultative Committee for Acoustics, Ultrasound and Vibration
		CCEM: Consultative Committee for Electricity and Magnetism
		CCL: Consultative Committee for Length
		CCM: Consultative Committee for Mass and Related Quantities
		CCPR: Consultative Committee for Photometry and Radiometry
		CCQM: Consultative Committee for Amount of Substance: Metrology in Chemistry and Biology
		CCRI: Consultative Committee for Ionizing Radiation > Section I \| Section II \| Section III \|
		CCT: Consultative Committee for Thermometry
		CCTF: Consultative Committee for Time and Frequency
		CCU: Consultative Committee for Units

		Joint CIPM/ILAC Working Group
		Joint BIPM/OIML Working Group
		Joint BIPM/OIML/ILAC/ISO Working Group

The principal task of the CIPM is to promote world-wide uniformity in units of measurement and it does this by direct action or by submitting draft resolutions to the General Conference (CGPM).

Duties of the CIPM include the responsibility to:

discuss the work of the BIPM under the delegated authority of the CGPM;

issue an Annual Report on the administrative and financial position of the BIPM to the governments of the States Parties to the Metre Convention;

discuss metrological work that Member States decide to do in common, and set up and coordinate activities between specialists in metrology;

make appropriate Recommendations;

commission reports in preparation for meetings of the CGPM, for example the Blevin and Kaarls reports, and others such as the SI Brochure.

The CIPM is made up of eighteen individuals, each of a different nationality. The presidents of the Consultative Committees are appointed by, and are normally members of, the CIPM.

The CIPM meets every year (since 2011 in two sessions per year) and, among other matters, discusses reports presented to it by its Consultative Committees. Reports of the meetings of the CGPM, the CIPM, and all the Consultative Committees, are published by the BIPM.

The CIPM is made up of eighteen individuals, each of a different nationality.

CIPM bureau members:

	Date of provisional election to the CIPM (by the CIPM)		Most recent (re)election by the CGPM
President	Dr B. Inglis (Australia)	7 Aug. 2000	2014
Secretary	Dr J. McLaren (Canada)	6 March 2006	2014
Vice-President	Dr W.E. May (United States of America)	9 June 2008	2014
Vice-President	Prof. J. Ullrich (Germany)	15 May 2013	2014

Other CIPM members:

Dr F. Bulygin (Russian Federation)	–	2014
Dr M. Buzoianu (Romania)	–	2014
Dr I. Castelazo (Mexico)	–	2014
Dr Y. Duan (People's Republic of China)	8 March 2010	2014
Mr L. Érard (France)	13 Sept. 2004	2014
Dr D.-I. Kang (Republic of Korea)	12 Dec. 2013	2014
Dr H. Laiz (Argentina)	7 Dec. 2016	–
Dr T. Liew (Singapore)	–	2014
Dr W. Louw (South Africa)	15 May 2013	2014
Dr M.L. Rastello (Italy)	7 Dec. 2016	–
Dr P. Richard (Switzerland)	–	2014
Dr G. Rietveld (Netherlands)	–	2014
Dr M. Sené (United-Kingdom)	7 Dec. 2016	–
Dr T. Usuda (Japan)	1 July 2012	2014

ex officio

Dr M.J.T. Milton (United Kingdom), Director of the BIPM