Duties

摘要

The Director is responsible to the CIPM for the running of the BIPM, which has an international staff of about eighty and an annual budget of some 12.5 million Euros. The Director acts as chief executive of the BIPM in the execution of its activities and carries a major responsibility for initiating and carrying through policy adopted by the CIPM on matters related to international metrology. The Director participates in all meetings of the ten scientific Consultative Committees of the CIPM and is chairman of the Joint Committee of the Regional Metrology Organizations and the BIPM. The Director is expected to maintain contact, either directly or through the RMOs, with the NMIs of the Member States. Further, the Director is expected to liaise actively with other intergovernmental organizations and international bodies with the aim of improving the comparability and reliability of measurement results in support of fair trade, the elimination of technical barriers to trade, industrial innovation.