Year - 1999

March 31st -April 2nd 1999
Washington, USA

Resolution CR 1/99
To complete SIM Strategic Planning, in connection with the forthcoming SIM General Assembly meeting planned for Sept. 1999.
Resolution CR 2/99
To approve the 1999 SIM working plan presented by the Chair of the Professional Development Committee.
Resolution CR 3/99
Final destination of equipment acquired under SIM sponsorship must be decided by Council. According to article 7.2, item f of the Statute, all SIM equipment must be inventoried by the Executive Secretariat.
Resolution CR 4/99
To approve the SIM 1999 Budget and related activities discussed by Council.
Resolution CR 5/99
To delegate the Executive Secretary the responsibility to elaborate and send a sensitizing letter to the Chief Executive Officers of the SIM-NMIs, requesting official support for SIM activities.
Resolution CR 6/99
To give a trust-vote to the President and to the Executive Secretary to take the final decision about the hosting of the 4th General Assembly Meeting, after consulting all ANDIMET NMIs.

July 9th 1999, Washington, USA
July 11th 1999, Charlotte, USA

Resolution CR 7/99
To prepare the SIM project for the year 2000 and submit it to the OAS through NIST.
Resolution CR 8/99
In conformity with resolution CR 6/99 the council accepts the proposal of the President and the Executive Secretary to hold the 2nd 1999 Ordinary Council meeting and the V General Assembly meeting in Quito, Ecuador, September 22st to 24th.
Resolution CR 9/99
Considering the letter of resignation submitted by the President Mauricio Frota, the Council resolves to request him to continue serving in his position until next General Assembly.

September 22nd
Quito, Ecuador

Resolution CR 10/99
To approve the minutes from the Council Meeting, Washington March 31st, 1999.
Resolution CR 11/99
To hold next Council Meeting in Caracas, Venezuela, November 15th B16th, 1999.
Resolution CR 12/99
In accordance with article 5.2 of SIM Statute, the council accepts the proposal submitted by the Brazilian authorities designating the President of INMETRO, Dr. Marco Antonio Alquerque de Araujo Lima to serve as President of SIM for the remainder of the 1998-2000 term, to be ratified by the General Assembly.
Resolution CR 13/99
To accept the current financial and activities reports presented by the four project coordinators (Brasil, Canadá, USA, México).
Resolution CR 14/99
To develop a format for the presentation of budgets and financial reports.
Responsible: S. Carpenter.
Resolution CR 15/99
Considering:
a) The CIPM-MRA will be presented for signature at the Directors Meeting on October 14th 1999;
b) the JCRB has indicated that the first draft of appendix C of the CIPM-MRA will be prepared early next year (2000);
c) the importance of this agreement for the international acceptance of SIM members capabilities;
Council resolves: to strongly recommend
a) SIM members to submit their calibration and measurement capabilities to the representative to the JCRB and,
b) Metrology Working Groups to analyze the existing data and prepare SIM submissions to the JCRB
Resolution CR 16/99
Approve the Item transfer of USD $4000 assigned for coordination activities to be used for publication of the next InfoSim magazine.
Resolution CR 17/99
In accordance with article 6.4 of SIM Statutes, recommend to the General Assembly the admission of the National Conference of Standards Laboratory (NCSL) as an Associate Participant

September 24th
Quito, Ecuador

Resolution CR 18/99
To prepare a draft of the action plan for 2000 to be sent to the MWG for consult, based on the data presented during the General Assembly meeting.
Action: S. Carpenter, Y. Mitani.
Resolution CR 19/99
To reconsider CR 11/99 and consult Venezuela about changing the next council meeting from November 15th to December 2nd -3rd .
Resolution CR 20/99
To prepare a time table for the 2000 Council Meetings.
Action: I. Castelazo, O. Harasic.
Resolution CR 21/99
To establish a Secretary similar to other RMOs, responsible for documentation, archives, minutes, and agendas.
Action: M. A. Albuquerque
Resolution CR 22/99
To prepare the mailing list for the distribution of new documents in SIM.
Action: O. Harasic, I. Castelazo, L. Mussio.
Resolution CR 23/99
To prepare and send to the members a model of the letter of support to be sent to the OAS representatives by the corresponding channels in each country.
Action: O. Harasic