5. Acronyms

AASQA: Associations agréées surveillance qualité de l'air (approved air quality monitoring associations)

BIPM: Bureau International des Poids et Mesures

CGPM: General Conference on Weights and Measures

CIPM: Comité International des Poids et Mesures

GUM: Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement

LNE: Laboratoire national de métrologie et d'essais (French national metrology and testing laboratory)

OIML: International Organization of Legal Metrology

SI: International System of Units

The unit system consists of 7 units of measurement: metre, second, kilogram, ampere, mole, kelvin, candela.

VIM: International Vocabulary of Metrology