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metadata:
  title: 102(I)
  date: '2013-06-01'
  source: BIPM - Pavillon de Breteuil
  url: https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/cipm/meeting/102(I).html
resolutions:
- dates:
  - '2013-06-01'
  title: Decision CIPM/102-1
  identifier: 102-1
  url: https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/cipm/meeting/102(I).html
  reference: https://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/CIPM/CIPM2013-EN.pdf
  considerations: []
  actions:
  - type: approves
    date_effective: '2013-06-01'
    message: agreed that the minutes of the 101st meeting (2012) were confirmed by
      correspondence.
  subject: The CIPM
- dates:
  - '2013-06-01'
  title: Decision CIPM/102-2
  identifier: 102-2
  url: https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/cipm/meeting/102(I).html
  reference: https://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/CIPM/CIPM2013-EN.pdf
  considerations: []
  actions:
  - type: approves
    date_effective: '2013-06-01'
    message: approved the revised Terms of Reference of the CIPM Standing Sub Committee
      on Finance; these revisions were to take primary responsibility with regard
      to due diligence studies and the effective and timely preparation of the BIPM
      financial statements.
  subject: The CIPM
- dates:
  - '2013-06-01'
  title: Decision CIPM/102-3
  identifier: 102-3
  url: https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/cipm/meeting/102(I).html
  reference: https://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/CIPM/CIPM2013-EN.pdf
  considerations: []
  actions:
  - type: approves
    date_effective: '2013-06-01'
    message: After due consideration of the 2012 audited BIPM financial statements,
      the CIPM approved the 2012 BIPM financial statements without objection and decided
      to transfer to 'Other reserves' the net result for the 2012 period which amounts
      to -3.654 million Euros. The CIPM discharged the Director of the BIPM from all
      liability in respect of his administration for the 2012 financial period.
- dates:
  - '2013-06-01'
  title: Decision CIPM/102-4
  identifier: 102-4
  url: https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/cipm/meeting/102(I).html
  reference: https://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/CIPM/CIPM2013-EN.pdf
  considerations: []
  actions:
  - type: approves
    date_effective: '2013-06-01'
    message: |-
      After due consideration of the 2012 audited BIPM Pension and Provident Fund financial statements, the CIPM approved the 2012 BIPM Pension and Provident Fund financial statements without objection and decided to transfer to 'Other reserves' of the Pension and Provident Fund the net result for the 2012 period which amounts to -10.105 million Euros.

      The CIPM discharged the Director of the BIPM from all liability in respect of his administration of the BIPM Pension and Provident Fund for the 2012 financial period.
- dates:
  - '2013-06-01'
  title: Decision CIPM/102-5
  identifier: 102-5
  url: https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/cipm/meeting/102(I).html
  reference: https://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/CIPM/CIPM2013-EN.pdf
  considerations: []
  actions:
  - type: approves
    date_effective: '2013-06-01'
    message: |-
      approved the changes to Rule 16.3 'Notice of resignation' of the Regulations, Rules and Instructions applicable to staff members of the BIPM (RRI) without objection. The modifications were the insertion of two rules, 16.3.1 'Exemption from duty during the notice period' and 16.3.2 'Salary payment and exemption from duty'.

      16.3 Notice of resignation

      The notices of resignation mentioned in Regulations 16.1 and 16.2 shall be submitted in writing against a signed and dated receipt by the Director or his representative.

      16.3.1 Exemption from duty during the notice period

      The Director may on a discretionary basis excuse the staff member from actual duty during the period of notice served in the case of resignation.

      16.3.2 Salary payment and exemption from duty

      Where the staff member requests to cease work before the expiry of the notice period and where, before the end of the notice period, the staff member leaves the BIPM for another appointment, the emoluments corresponding to the remaining notice period shall not be paid.
  subject: The CIPM
- dates:
  - '2013-06-01'
  title: Decision CIPM/102-6
  identifier: 102-6
  url: https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/cipm/meeting/102(I).html
  reference: https://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/CIPM/CIPM2013-EN.pdf
  considerations: []
  actions:
  - type: approves
    date_effective: '2013-06-01'
    message: approved the principle of the changes to Rule 11.10.10 'Health and safety
      at work' of the Regulations, Rules and Instructions applicable to staff members
      of the BIPM (RRI) without objection and will confirm the final draft text by
      correspondence.
  subject: The CIPM
- dates:
  - '2013-06-01'
  title: Decision CIPM/102-7
  identifier: 102-7
  url: https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/cipm/meeting/102(I).html
  reference: https://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/CIPM/CIPM2013-EN.pdf
  considerations: []
  actions:
  - type: approves
    date_effective: '2013-06-01'
    message: approved the principle of the changes to Rule 14.5.17 'Therapeutic part
      time' of the Regulations, Rules and Instructions applicable to staff members
      of the BIPM (RRI) and will confirm the final draft text by correspondence.
  subject: The CIPM
- dates:
  - '2013-06-01'
  title: Decision CIPM/102-8
  identifier: 102-8
  url: https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/cipm/meeting/102(I).html
  reference: https://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/CIPM/CIPM2013-EN.pdf
  considerations: []
  actions:
  - type: approves
    date_effective: '2013-06-01'
    message: approved the document 'Draft Criteria and Process for Election of CIPM
      Members' prepared by the CIPM _ad hoc_ Working Group on CIPM Membership, as
      amended following discussion. The CIPM agreed to present it to the representatives
      of States Parties to the Metre Convention and Directors of National Metrology
      Institutes at their meeting in October 2013.
  subject: The CIPM
- dates:
  - '2013-06-01'
  title: Decision CIPM/102-9
  identifier: 102-9
  url: https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/cipm/meeting/102(I).html
  reference: https://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/CIPM/CIPM2013-EN.pdf
  considerations: []
  actions:
  - type: decides
    date_effective: '2013-06-01'
    message: decided to charge the CIPM _ad hoc_ Working Group on CIPM Membership
      with developing procedures for the election of Presidents, Working Group Chairs
      and Deputy Chairs of Consultative Committees. The _ad hoc_ Working Group on
      CIPM Membership is also asked to draft the criteria and process for the election
      of Vice Presidents of the CIPM, Honorary Members of the CIPM and Emeritus Directors
      of the BIPM.
  subject: The CIPM
- dates:
  - '2013-06-01'
  title: Decision CIPM/102-10
  identifier: 102-10
  url: https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/cipm/meeting/102(I).html
  reference: https://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/CIPM/CIPM2013-EN.pdf
  considerations: []
  actions:
  - type: approves
    date_effective: '2013-06-01'
    message: agreed unanimously to elect Prof. E.O. Göbel as an Honorary Member of
      the CIPM in recognition of his contribution to the CIPM as a member from 1997
      to 2012 and as President from 2004 to 2010. The CIPM President will inform Prof.
      E.O. Göbel.
  subject: The CIPM
- dates:
  - '2013-06-01'
  title: Decision CIPM/102-11
  identifier: 102-11
  url: https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/cipm/meeting/102(I).html
  reference: https://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/CIPM/CIPM2013-EN.pdf
  considerations: []
  actions:
  - type: requests
    date_effective: '2013-06-01'
    message: were requested to consider potential candidates for CIPM membership and
      submit their names and CVs to the Secretary of the CIPM by the end of September
      2013 in order for the CIPM to review the CVs at Session II of the 102nd meeting
      of the CIPM in October 2013.
  subject: The CIPM members
- dates:
  - '2013-06-01'
  title: Decision CIPM/102-12
  identifier: 102-12
  url: https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/cipm/meeting/102(I).html
  reference: https://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/CIPM/CIPM2013-EN.pdf
  considerations: []
  actions:
  - type: decides
    date_effective: '2013-06-01'
    message: will provide an electronic copy of the 'Compendium of main rules and
      practices applicable to the BIPM' to CIPM members by the end of July 2013.
  subject: The BIPM Director
- dates:
  - '2013-06-01'
  title: Decision CIPM/102-13
  identifier: 102-13
  url: https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/cipm/meeting/102(I).html
  reference: https://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/CIPM/CIPM2013-EN.pdf
  considerations: []
  actions:
  - type: recommends
    date_effective: '2013-06-01'
    message: endorsed the initiative of both the President of the Consultative Committee
      for Mass and Related Quantities (CCM) and the CCM in developing a roadmap showing
      the steps required in mass metrology to achieve a redefinition of the SI by
      2018.
  subject: The CIPM
- dates:
  - '2013-06-01'
  title: Decision CIPM/102-14
  identifier: 102-14
  url: https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/cipm/meeting/102(I).html
  reference: https://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/CIPM/CIPM2013-EN.pdf
  considerations: []
  actions:
  - type: approves
    date_effective: '2013-06-01'
    message: approved the plans for an extraordinary campaign of measurements with
      the international prototype of the kilogram, presented by the Acting Director
      of the Mass Department, and confirmed their agreement that the BIPM Director
      should have access to the vault to remove the international prototype of the
      kilogram for use in this campaign.
  subject: The CIPM
- dates:
  - '2013-06-01'
  title: Decision CIPM/102-15
  identifier: 102-15
  url: https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/cipm/meeting/102(I).html
  reference: https://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/CIPM/CIPM2013-EN.pdf
  considerations: []
  actions:
  - type: recommends
    date_effective: '2013-06-01'
    message: endorsed the work done by the Consultative Committees in preparing the
      strategy documents. It acknowledged the useful and supportive feedback from
      the Directors of National Metrology Institutes. It supported the BIPM Director
      regarding the direction of the initiative and instructed him to continue to
      develop a global perspective.
  subject: The CIPM
- dates:
  - '2013-06-01'
  title: Decision CIPM/102-16
  identifier: 102-16
  url: https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/cipm/meeting/102(I).html
  reference: https://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/CIPM/CIPM2013-EN.pdf
  considerations: []
  actions:
  - type: encourages
    date_effective: '2013-06-01'
    message: encouraged Presidents and Executive Secretaries of the Consultative Committees
      (CCs) to reflect on comments received from National Metrology Institutes specific
      to their CC strategy and to decide, in consultation with their CC (and/or appropriate
      Working Groups), whether revision is necessary.
  subject: The CIPM
- dates:
  - '2013-06-01'
  title: Decision CIPM/102-17
  identifier: 102-17
  url: https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/cipm/meeting/102(I).html
  reference: https://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/CIPM/CIPM2013-EN.pdf
  considerations: []
  actions:
  - type: decides
    date_effective: '2013-06-01'
    message: will issue an invitation to the leadership of the Versailles Project
      on Advanced Materials and Standards (VAMAS) to a meeting of the CIPM bureau
      in 2014 to explore whether there would be value in closer collaboration between
      VAMAS and the CIPM.
  subject: The CIPM President
- dates:
  - '2013-06-01'
  title: Decision CIPM/102-18
  identifier: 102-18
  url: https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/cipm/meeting/102(I).html
  reference: https://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/CIPM/CIPM2013-EN.pdf
  considerations: []
  actions:
  - type: welcomes
    date_effective: '2013-06-01'
    message: welcomed the analysis of the rationale for the laboratory activities
      at the BIPM presented at the meeting. It requested the BIPM to circulate the
      analysis, and offered to provide its comments by the end of July 2013.
  subject: The CIPM
- dates:
  - '2013-06-01'
  title: Decision CIPM/102-19
  identifier: 102-19
  url: https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/cipm/meeting/102(I).html
  reference: https://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/CIPM/CIPM2013-EN.pdf
  considerations: []
  actions:
  - type: decides
    date_effective: '2013-06-01'
    message: As part of the CIPM's intention to encourage a stronger strategic perspective,
      the CIPM will identify one or two cross-cutting "grand metrology challenges"
      considering potential liaisons with the ILAC, the ISO and the OIML and other
      relevant international organizations with missions complementary to the BIPM
      and charge the Presidents of the Consultative Committees to assess the implications
      to their strategies and future programmes.
- dates:
  - '2013-06-01'
  title: Decision CIPM/102-20
  identifier: 102-20
  url: https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/cipm/meeting/102(I).html
  reference: https://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/CIPM/CIPM2013-EN.pdf
  considerations: []
  actions:
  - type: instructs
    date_effective: '2013-06-01'
    message: instructed the BIPM Director and the CIPM bureau to develop an agenda
      for the next CGPM in November 2014 based on a 3-day meeting, preceded by a day
      for a 'pre meeting' on the Dotation of the BIPM and for laboratory visits at
      the BIPM. The draft agenda should be presented to the next meeting of the CIPM
      and be ready for consideration by the representatives of States Parties to the
      Metre Convention and Directors of National Metrology Institutes at their meeting
      in October 2013.
  subject: The CIPM
- dates:
  - '2013-06-01'
  title: Decision CIPM/102-21
  identifier: 102-21
  url: https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/cipm/meeting/102(I).html
  reference: https://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/CIPM/CIPM2013-EN.pdf
  considerations: []
  actions:
  - type: recommends
    date_effective: '2013-06-01'
    message: endorsed the activities of the CIPM Standing Sub-Committee on Pensions
      and Health Insurance, and requested the Sub-Committee to present the results
      of its studies to the CIPM at its next meeting and to the representatives of
      States Parties to the Metre Convention and Directors of National Metrology Institutes
      at their meeting in October 2013.
  subject: The CIPM
- dates:
  - '2013-06-01'
  title: Decision CIPM/102-22
  identifier: 102-22
  url: https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/cipm/meeting/102(I).html
  reference: https://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/CIPM/CIPM2013-EN.pdf
  considerations: []
  actions:
  - type: recommends
    date_effective: '2013-06-01'
    message: endorsed the activities of the CIPM _ad hoc_ Working Group on Conditions
      of Employment, and requested the _ad hoc_ Working Group to present the results
      of its studies to the CIPM at its next meeting and to the representatives of
      States Parties to the Metre Convention and Directors of National Metrology Institutes
      at their meeting in October 2013.
  subject: The CIPM
- dates:
  - '2013-06-01'
  title: Decision CIPM/102-23
  identifier: 102-23
  url: https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/cipm/meeting/102(I).html
  reference: https://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/CIPM/CIPM2013-EN.pdf
  considerations: []
  actions:
  - type: decides
    date_effective: '2013-06-01'
    message: decided, on the basis of the criteria it has previously adopted, that
      it would be appropriate for Albania to become a State Party to the Metre Convention.
      The BIPM will convey the Decision, recalling Resolution 4 'On the status of
      Associate State of the General Conference' adopted by the CGPM at its 24th meeting,
      and the implications regarding the increase in subscription should Albania choose
      to remain an Associate of the CGPM.
  subject: The CIPM
- dates:
  - '2013-06-01'
  title: Decision CIPM/102-24
  identifier: 102-24
  url: https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/cipm/meeting/102(I).html
  reference: https://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/CIPM/CIPM2013-EN.pdf
  considerations: []
  actions:
  - type: adopts
    date_effective: '2013-06-01'
    message: adopted the Recommendation 'Updates to the list of standard frequencies'
      of the Consultative Committee for Time and Frequency (CCTF) as CIPM Recommendation
      CI-2013.
  subject: The CIPM
- dates:
  - '2013-06-01'
  title: Decision CIPM/102-25
  identifier: 102-25
  url: https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/cipm/meeting/102(I).html
  reference: https://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/CIPM/CIPM2013-EN.pdf
  considerations: []
  actions:
  - type: approves
    date_effective: '2013-06-01'
    message: |-
      approved the changes proposed to the following CIPM documents:

      * CIPM/2005-06REV 'The CIPM MRA: 2005 Interpretation Document'
      * CIPM MRA-D-02 'Use of the CIPM MRA logo and certificates statement'
      * CIPM MRA-G-01 'Guide to the implementation of the CIPM MRA'
      * CIPM MRA-D-04 'Calibration and Measurement Capabilities in the context of the CIPM MRA'
      * CIPM MRA-D-05 'Measurement comparisons in the CIPM MRA'.
  subject: The CIPM
- dates:
  - '2013-06-01'
  title: Decision CIPM/102-26
  identifier: 102-26
  url: https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/cipm/meeting/102(I).html
  reference: https://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/CIPM/CIPM2013-EN.pdf
  considerations: []
  actions:
  - type: recommends
    date_effective: '2013-06-01'
    message: endorsed the text of the 'BIPM Mission, Role and Objectives' document
      presented by the BIPM Director.
  subject: The CIPM