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EA has published its 2025 Annual Report, highlighting the organisation’s key achievements, cooperation among EA Members, collaboration with the European Commission and stakeholders, and the main challenges and opportunities ahead.
On 9 June 2026, EA joins the global accreditation community in celebrating World Accreditation Day. This year’s theme, “Innovation, Trust and Sustainability: The Power of Accreditation”
EA members and stakeholders attended the 60th EA General Assembly (GA) on 20-21 May 2026, in Luxembourg, hosted by OLAS, the Luxembourg National Accreditation Body.
The EA MAC considered the outcome of the re-evaluation of DPA (Albania) and evaluation and re-evaluation of TUNAC (Tunisia), and took several decisions.
On 20 May, the global metrology community celebrates World Metrology Day, marking the anniversary of the signature of the Metre Convention in 1875, the international agreement that established the foundation for global collaboration in measurement science.
The EA Multilateral Agreement Council (MAC) held its 54th meeting on 6 and 7 May 2026 in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
EA is organising a workshop with the European Commission for National Accreditation Bodies in which the European Commission will provide an update on the implementation of the EU Methane Regulation
EA is organizing with the European Commission an online workshop on the Machinery Regulation and its impact on the Lifts Directive for the notifying authorities and national accreditation bodies working in these two sectors.
EA published the revision of the document EA-4/20 Guidance for the assessment of laboratories against EN ISO 15189:2022 Point-of-Care Testing (POCT) on 21 April 2026
EA published the EA MLA Report 2025.
The EA MAC considered the outcome of the evaluation of ALGERAC (Algeria) and the re-evaluation of NAB-Malta (Malta), and took several decisions.
The European Commission services recently published a survey targeting verifiers or other persons interested in applying for CBAM accreditation.
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Publications
Publication date: 2026-02-27
Categories: Information documents
EA-INF/05
Directory of European legislations and EU schemes with provisions to accreditation and/or conformity assessment
Publication date: 2026-04-15
Categories: Information documents
EA-INF/02
Contact Persons of EA Members, Recognized Stakeholders and Observers
Publication date: 2026-06-15
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EA-INF/01
List of EA Publications and International Documents
Publication date: 2026-02-18
Categories: Information documents
EA-INF/17
Register of EA resolutions for use by EA, National Accreditation Bodies and EA evaluators
Publication date: 2026-05-26
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EA-INF/03
Signatories to the EA Multilateral Agreement
Publication date: 2026-04-21
Categories: Members' Procedural documents
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Guidance for the assessment of laboratories against EN ISO 15189:2022 Point-of Care Testing (POCT)
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