Consultative Committee on the

CCQM (1998) Consultative Committee on the Quantity of Material, Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM), Minutes of Fifth Meeting, Sotcs, France. 

CIPM), which meets annually and oversees the work of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM). The BIPM, based at Sevres just outside Paris, has the responsibility for international standards and is a center for international research and cooperation in metrology. The CIPM has created a number of advisory specialist committees (consultative committees) that are each chaired by a member of CIPM. The committee of interest to chemists is the Consultative Committee on the Amount of Substance (CCQM). It oversees the Avogadro project and coordinates a series of international interlaboratory trials called Key Comparisons (BIPM 2003), which... 

Temperatures on ITS-90, as on earlier scales, are defined in terms of fixed points, interpolating instruments, and equations that relate the measured property of the instrument to temperature. The report on ITS-90 of the Consultative Committee on Thermometry is published in Metrologia and in the Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology The description that follows is extracted from those publications.3 Two additional documents by CCT further describe ITS-90 Supplementary Information for the ITS-90, and Techniques for Approximating the ITS-90.4... 

The original reports on 1TS-90 are found in B. W. Mangum. "Special Report on the International Temperature Scale of 1990. Report on the 17th Session of the Consultative committee on Thermometry." J. Res. Natl. Inst. Stand. TeehnoL. 95. 69 (1990) H. Preston-Thomas, The International Scale of 1990 (ITS-90)." Metro/ogia. 27. 3 (1990). 

In 1967, computer facilities were installed for handling the yellow card reports and, after consultation, a method of confidential feedback to the profession was designed. A doctor reporting an ADR was automatically sent a summary of all the reports received by the Committee on the drug and on similar drugs. Where possible, an estimate of the extent to which the drug was prescribed was also given. 

The ITS is an artifact scale, designed to relate temperature measurements made with practicable instruments as closely as possible to the thermodynamic scale. The scale is established and controlled by the International Committee of Weights and Measures (BIPM) through its Consultative Committee on Thermometry, which was established in 1937. The BIPM itself is established to maintain and implement the Treaty of the Meter, to which most nations of the wodd subscribe thus the ITS has not only scientific but legal status in most nations. Within nations, the Temperature Scale is maintained by national standards establishments, eg, in the United States the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), in England the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), and in Germany the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB). 

M. Kawachi, M. Kobayashi, and T. Miyashita, Proceeding of the European Conference on Optical Fiber Communication 87 (Helsinki), Consulting Committee of the Professional Electroengineers Organization, Helsinki, Finland (1987), p. 53. 

Consultative Committee on Amount of Substance (1998) Report of the fourth meeting. BIPM, Sevres, Paris... 

The International Temperature Scale of 1990 is described in Section 1 of this Handbook, where the defining fixed points are listed. The Consultative Committee on Thermometry (CCT) of the International Committee on Weights and Measures (CIPM), which oversees the temperature scale, has recommended a number of secondary reference points whose values have been accurately determined with respect to the primary fixed points. The most accurate of these, referred to as first quality points , satisfy several criteria involving purity of the material, reproducibility, and documentation of the measurements. The CCT also lists second quality points that do not yet satisfy all the criteria but are still useful. Taken together. 

Detailed lists of the data required to be evaluated to satisfy inclusion in Annex I of the Directive, or the authorization of a plant protection product are set out in the Directive (Annexes II and III). Annex II data relate to the active substance and Annex III to the plant protection product. These data are submitted to one or more Member States for evaluation. A report of the evaluation is submitted to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Following peer review of the report the EFSA makes a recommendation to the European Commission on whether Annex I inclusion is acceptable. This recommendation is then discussed by all Member States in the framework of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health (SCFA), previously the Standing Committee on Plant Health (SCPH). Where necessary, the Scientific Panel is consulted before the SCFA can deliver an opinion on whether an active substance should be included in Annex I of 91/414/EEC. 

You may conduct the audit alone or using a team. (See the section Structured and documented inspections earher.) Just as for inspections, it is important to consult with employees, employee representatives, and health and safety committees on the audit process, design, development, workplace approach, evaluation and reporting. That does not mean they physically conduct the audit. 

Derived Ethanol and Biodiesel Transportation Fuels, the Committee on the Advanced Automotive Technologies Plan, and the Committee on Energy Conservation Research. He currently is an energy consultant for various clients and is a lecturer at the University of California, Irvine. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. 

An Executive Council is to be established, with its members elected by the Consultative Committee to which it would be responsible. The Executive Council would be charged with carrying out the functions of the Consultative Committee on its behalf. A Technical Secretariat would be set up to assist the Consultative Committee and the Executive Council, and the International Inspectorate would be part of the Technical Secretariat. The Secretariat would employ only the citizens of States Party to the Convention, who would be selected on the basis of their efficiency, competence and integrity . 

We have included in this volume two chapters specifically related to society s kinetic system. We have asked James Wei of the University of Delaware, recent Chairman of the consultant panel on Catalyst Systems for the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Motor Vehicle Emissions, to illustrate key problems and bridges between the catalytic science and the practical objectives of minimizing automobile exhaust emissions. We have also asked for a portrayal of the hard economic facts that constrain and guide what properties in a catalyst are useful to the catalytic practitioner. For this we have turned to Duncan S. Davies, General Manager of Research and Development, and John Dewing, Research Specialist in Heterogeneous Catalysts, both from Imperial Chemical Industries Limited. 

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