Defines rules for the usage and coded representation of units of measurement for the purpose of exchanging information about quantitative medicinal product characteristics (e.g. strength) in the human medicine domain, that require of measurement; establishes requirements for units in order to provide traceability to international metrological standards; provides rules for the standardized and machine-readable documentation of quantitative composition and strength of medical products, specifically in the context of medicinal products identification; defines the requirements for the representation of units of measurement in coded form; provides structures and rules for mapping between different unit vocabularies and language translations to support the implementation of this standard, taking into account the existing systems, dictionaries and repositories use a variety of terms and coded for the representation of units.