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Metre Convention
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- Instance of
- multilateral treaty
- Main subject
- International System of Units
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- work available at URL
- www.bipm.org/documents/20126/44107685/metre-convention.pdf
- title
- Metre Convention and Annexed Regulations
- law identifier
- 明治19年4月20日勅令
- signatory
- Russian Empire
- Commons category
- Metre Convention
- point in time
- 1875-05-20
- depositary
- Government of the French Republic
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Encyclopedic overview
The Metre Convention (French: Convention du Mètre), also known as the Treaty of the Metre, is an international treaty that was signed in Paris on 20 May 1875 by representatives of 17 nations: Argentina, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden and Norway, Switzerland, Ottoman Empire, United States of America, and Venezuela.
The treaty created the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM), an intergovernmental organization, under the authority of the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) and the supervision of the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM). These organizations coordinate international metrology and the development of internationally recognized systems of measurement.
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