An overview of past, current and future activities of EUROLAB, the European federation of national associations of measurement, testing and analytical laboratories

摘要

EUROLAB has been deeply involved in the construction of the new European legislation on Accreditation (Regulation 765/2008 "Goods package") that addresses economic, political and technical issues. This Regulation sets new duties on the European accreditation bodies which make things different from the rest of the world. Main concerns of EUROLAB are dealing with harmonization of practices should they be from a technical point of view as well as political and economical ones when applied by the laboratory practitioners, national, regional or international authorities and accreditation organizations. The presentation will give an overview of the EUROLAB activities over the past, current and coming years. The drafting process and content of the new EUROLAB strategy 2009-2013 will be presented including the relevant topics to be tackled on a short and medium term basis, i.e. Accreditation (new status of "EA", ILAC, flexible scope in calibration and testing activities, cross frontier policy), Effects of globalisation on the European laboratory community, Recruitment, competences, quality and education of laboratory practitioners, Technical issues (validation, uncertainty, ILC/PT) and Standardisation (ISO CASCO, revision of ISO 17000 series).