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metadata:
  title: CIPM, 1967
  date: '1967-01-01'
  source: BIPM - Pavillon de Breteuil
resolutions:
- dates:
  - '1967-01-01'
  title: Decimal multiples and submultiples of the unit of mass
  identifier: 2
  url: https://www.bipm.org/en/CIPM/db/1967/2/
  approvals:
  - type: affirmative
    degree: unanimous
    message: |-
      +

      The Comité International des Poids et Mesures,
  considerations:
  - type: considering
    date_effective: '1967-01-01'
    message: considering that the rule for forming names of decimal multiples and
      submultiples of the units of paragraph 3 of cgpm-resolution:en/11/12#para3[Resolution
      12] of the 11th Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures (CGPM) (1960) might
      be interpreted in different ways when applied to the unit of mass,
  actions:
  - type: decides
    date_effective: '1967-01-01'
    message: 'declares that the rules of Resolution 12 of the 11th CGPM apply to the
      kilogram in the following manner: the names of decimal multiples and submultiples
      of the unit of mass are formed by attaching prefixes to the word "gram".'