Metre Convention definition

Metre Convention. (Convention du Metre) means the international treaty dealing with metrology matters signed at Paris on 20 May 1875;
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Metre Convention means the International Metrology Treaty established in 1875;
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Metre Convention. ’ (Convention du Mètre), means the diplomatic treaty which gives authority to the General Conference on Weights and Measures (Conférence 15
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Examples of Metre Convention in a sentence

  • Member of the Metre Convention since 1977.Signatory of the Mutual Recognition Agreement (CIPM MRA):NIM (October 14, 1999), has the right to use the CIPM MRA logo from November 27, 2006.

  • EU is not a signatory of the Metre Convention agreement on metric units, but all Member States are and they are bound by the agreement to implement it in their national legislation.

  • The Metre Convention and its organs, the CGPM, the Comité International des Poids et Mesures (CIPM), the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM), and the Consultative Committees are described in the text “The BIPM and the Metre Convention” on page 117.The SI is a consistent system of units for use in all aspects of life, including international trade, manufacturing, security, health and safety, protection of the environment, and in the basic science that underpins all of these.

  • At the 1st CGPM (1889), after calibration against the international prototype, most of these “national prototypes” were individually assigned to Member States of the Metre Convention, and some also to the BIPM.

  • The annual subscription has been payable since the Government signed up to the Metre Convention circa 1888.

  • Internationally, NMISA leads the developing world to become major contributors to the global measurement system rather than users, and to shape the system to accommodate the needs of emergent nations, through the new Presidency of the International Committee of Weights and Measures (CIPM), the highest international position under the Metre Convention.

  • Member State governments have signed the international agreement on the system of metric units (Metre Convention), which obliges them to base their laws on the agreement.

  • MIU represents Ukraine in all international scientific metrology organizations (Metre Convention, EURAMET, COOMET).

  • The Metre Convention makes provision for the BIPM to organize and pilot international comparisons.

  • He stated that the Conference had supported the proposal by the BIPM-OIML Joint Task Group to organise a joint OIML- BIPM event on the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Signature of the Metre Convention and the 70th Anniversary of the OIML in 2025, and added that the following CIML Draft Resolution was therefore proposed.

Related to Metre Convention

  • Warsaw Convention means the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air, signed at Warsaw, October 12, 1929, as amended, but not including the Montreal Convention as defined above.

  • Chicago Convention means the Convention on International Civil Aviation, signed at Chicago on 7 December 1944, as amended, and its Annexes;

  • Convention means the Convention on International Civil Aviation, opened for signature at Chicago on December 7, 1944, and includes: a. any amendment that has entered into force under Article 94(a) of the Convention and has been ratified by both Parties, and b. any Annex or any amendment thereto adopted under Article 90 of the Convention, insofar as such Annex or amendment is at any given time effective for both Parties;

  • Convention Area means the exclusive economic zone of a State Party, established in accordance with international law or, if a State Party has not established such a zone, an area beyond and adjacent to the territorial sea of that State determined by that State in accordance with international law and extending not more than 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of its territorial sea is measured.

  • Business Day Convention means the first following day that is a Business Day unless that day falls in the next calendar month, in which case that date will be the first preceding day that is a Business Day.