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After stressing the importance in the modern world of accurate and reproducible measurements, the actions taken by the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures to set up, together with the regional metrology organizations, a series of key comparisons are described. They are the technical foundation of a mutual recognition of national measurement standards arrangement prepared in conjunction with the National Metrology Institutes (NMIs). This arrangement also includes the recognition of calibration and measurement certificates issued by these institutes. Then, the consequences of this arrangement for trade are described. The case of chemical analysis is illustrated by the application of the Kyoto protocol on the reduction of greenhouse gases. But the global workload to be taken up by the International Committee of Weights and Measures, its Consultative Committee for Amount of Substance and the NMIs is huge.
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Received: 17 March 2000 / Accepted: 6 July 2000
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Kovalevsky, J. The consequences of the mutual recognition of measurement standards for international metrology. Accred Qual Assur 5, 409–413 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s007690000228
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s007690000228