Working and Liaison Groups
The EURACHEM Proficiency Testing Working Group (PTWG) provides a
forum within the European chemical measurement community for pursuing excellence
in the development and implementation of proficiency testing.
The EURACHEM Proficiency Testing Working Group has been established and will operate in accordance with the Constitution agreed in the EURACHEM Memorandum of Understanding.
To improve the organisation of proficiency testing in Europe.
To promote best practice in proficiency testing using appropriate mechanisms such as publications, workshops etc.
To provide a forum for organisers and users of proficiency testing schemes on issues affecting the practice of proficiency testing.
To organise, on a periodic basis, an International workshop on proficiency testing in analytical chemistry, microbiology and laboratory medicine.
To provide input and comments from the chemical measurement community to the EA/EUROLAB/EURACHEM Working Group on Proficiency Testing in Accreditation Procedures (EEE-PT WG).
To provide input and disseminate output between EURACHEM and the EEE-PT WG.
To collaborate and provide input on proficiency testing into other EURACHEM working groups.
To provide input into international activities related to proficiency testing.
Membership
Brian Brookman, LGC, UK (Chair)
Tracey Noblett, LGC, UK (Secretariat)
Michael Koch, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Nineta Majcen, Metrology Institute of the Republic of Slovenia (MIRS)
Irma Makinen, Finish Environment Institute, Finland
Miklos Naray, National Center for Public Health, Hungary
Ender Okandan, Petroleum Research Laboratory, Turkey
Ulf Örnemark, LGC Promochem, Sweden
Ioannis Papadakis, Consultant, Greece
Halina Polkowska-Motrenko, Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology,Poland
Marina Patriarca / Antonio Menditto, Istituto Superiore di Sanità,
Italy
Piotr Robouch, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, Geel, EC
Barry Tylee, Health & Safety Laboratory, UK
Christoph Von Holst, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, Geel,
EC
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Current Activities
A key role of the PTWG is to discuss both input and outcomes of issuesaddressed at the EA/EUROLAB/EURACHEM Working Group on Proficiency Testing in Accreditation Procedures (EEE-PTWG). The EEE-PTWG discusses issues that go much wider than analytical chemistry, and it is the responsibility of the EURACHEM representatives to ensure that any decisions and outputs of the WG take into account the needs of analytical chemistry. Current representatives of the PTMG who represent EURACHEM on the EEE-PTWG are Brian Brookman, Nineta Majcen and Piotr Robouch.
