The Education and Training working group has issued the second circular for the Internal Quality Control workshop in October 2012. The 2nd circular includes the programme for the event. More details can be found on the workshop information page.

Registrations for the 2012 Eurachem General Assembly and the associated workshop on Method validation, Traceability and Measurement Uncertainty in May 2012 are now open. Further details can be found at the links below

• General Assembly 2012
• Workshop: Validation, Traceability and Measurement Uncertainty

All the presentations, poster summaries and working group discussion summaries for the Eurachem/EQALM 7th international workshop on PT, held in October 2011, are now available here.

The Eurachem/Eurolab/EA (EEE) Proficiency Testing Working Group has released a revised edition of its well-known guide "Selection, Use and Interpretation of Proficiency Testing (PT) Schemes". Developed in conjunction with EQUALM, the new edition brings the Guide up to date on current terminology and best practice in PT.

The new Guide can be downloaded from here.

To support discussion at the Eurachem/CITAC Workshop "Recent developments in Measurement Uncertainty", the Eurachem/CITAC measurement Uncertainty and Traceability Working Group have released a first discussion draft of the proposed revision of "Quantifying Uncertainty in Analytical measurement".

Eurachem's Education and Training working group has issued a new guide to terminology: "Terminology in Analytical Measurement: Introduction to VIM 3".