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metadata:
  title: CIPM, 2008
  date: '2008-01-01'
  source: BIPM - Pavillon de Breteuil
resolutions:
- dates:
  - '2008-01-01'
  title: Système International d'Unités
  identifier: 3
  url: https://www.bipm.org/en/CIPM/db/2008/3/
  approvals:
  - type: affirmative
    degree: unanimous
    message: |-
      +

      The Comité International des Poids et Mesures,
  considerations:
  - type: considering
    date_effective: '2008-01-01'
    message: |-
      considering

       the task entrusted to it by cgpm-resolution:en/9/6[Resolution 6] of the 9th Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures (CGPM) concerning the establishment of a practical system of units of measurement suitable for adoption by all countries adhering to the Metre Convention,
       the documents received from twenty-one countries in reply to the enquiry requested by the 9th CGPM,
        cgpm-resolution:en/10/6[Resolution 6] of the 10th CGPM, fixing the base units of the system to be established,
  actions:
  - type: recommends
    date_effective: '2008-01-01'
    message: |-
      recommends

      . that the name "Système International d'Unités" be given to the system founded on the base units adopted by the 10th CGPM, viz.: +
       +
      [This is followed by the list of the cgpm-resolution:en/11/12[six base units] with their symbols, reproduced in Resolution 12 of the 11th CGPM (1960)].
       +
       +
      . that the units listed in the table below be used, without excluding others which might be added later: +
       +
      [This is followed by the cgpm-resolution:en/11/12#derived[table of units] reproduced in paragraph 4 of Resolution 12 of the 11th CGPM (1960)].