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<p>(UTC). It is headquartered in the <a href="page.php?w=Pavillon_de_Breteuil">Pavillon de Breteuil</a> in <a href="page.php?w=Saint-Cloud">Saint-Cloud</a>, near <a href="page.php?w=Paris">Paris</a>, <a href="page.php?w=France">France</a>. The organisation has been referred to as <b>IBWM</b> (from its name in English) in older literature.</p>

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<p>The BIPM has the mandate to provide the basis for a single, coherent system of measurements throughout the world, traceable to the <a href="page.php?w=International_System_of_Units">International System of Units (SI)</a>.</p><p>
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