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National and international mutual recognition arrangements, standards or
quality systems set the requirements for the reliability of measurement
results. Acquiring accreditation is the way for analytical laboratories to
demonstrate their technical competence to their customers.
The international measurement evaluation programme (IMEP®) of
IRMM enables assessing in how far laboratory accreditation is equivalent
across the Member States. IRMM organises these interlaboratory comparisons in
close collaboration with the
European co-operation for Accreditation (EA) and the Directorates-General
for Enterprise and for Taxation and Customs Union.
Contrary to most other external quality assessment schemes, participating
laboratories in IMEP® can compare their measurement results
with independent and traceable reference values obtained by measurements
applying the principles of metrology. This also helps chemical laboratories to
improve the quality of their measurements.
See also the IMEP
, REIMEP and
NUSIMEP pages.
Find out more about accreditation and standardisation for calibration and
testing laboratories:
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ISO/IEC 17025 General requirements for the competence of testing and
calibration laboratories, 1999
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ISO/IEC Guide 58 Calibration and testing laboratory accreditation systems -
General requirements for operation and recognition, 1993
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