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CIE’s Objectives

The CIE is a technical, scientific, and cultural non-profit organization with the following objectives:

  1. To provide an international forum for the discussion of all matters relating to the science, technology and art in the fields of light and lighting and for the interchange of information in these fields between countries.
  2. To develop basic standards and procedures of metrology in the fields of light and lighting.
  3. To provide guidance in the application of principles and procedures in the development of international and national standards in the fields of light and lighting.
  4. To prepare and publish standards, reports and other publications concerned with all matters relating to science, technology and art in the fields of light and lighting.
  5. To maintain liaison and technical interaction with other international organizations concerned with matters related to the science, technology, standardization and art in the fields of light and lighting.

It is important to note that in these objectives, light and lighting embrace such fundamental subjects as vision, photometry, and colorimetry, involving natural and anthropogenic radiation across the UV, visible, and IR regions of the spectrum, as well as application subjects covering all uses of light, indoors and outdoors, including environmental and aesthetic effects, and the means for the production and control of light and radiation.

From 1999 onwards also the optical, visual and metrological aspects of the communication, processing and reproduction of images, using all types of analogous and digital imaging devices, storage media and imaging media are covered by CIE.