INM representative – guest of the CCPR meeting

The 24th reunion of the Consultative Committee for Photometry and Radiometry (CCPR) of the International Committee of Weights amd Measures (BIPM) took place during 19-20 September 2019 at the International Bureau of Weights amd Measures (BIPM) in Paris. The meeting was attended by the representatives of 23 NMIs as members, of 5 NMIs as observers, as well as by 2 guests invited by the President of CCPR, Dr. Maria Luisa Rastello. One of the guests was the INM representative, Mr. Anatolii Bescupschi, as the Chair of the COOMET Technical Committee on Photometry and Radiometry.

The agenda of the meeting included various subjects in the field, the most relevant being: changes and news of BIPM and CGPM (General Conference on Weights and Measures); update of the KCDB 2.0 database; reports from the CCPR working groups: WG on Key Comparisons, WG on strategic planning, WG on CMCs; reports from the chairs of RMOs: AFRIMET, APMP, COOMET, EURAMET, SIM, GULFMET; advancing the state of the art in Measurement Science.