The EA Multilateral Agreement Council (EA MAC) is responsible for the effective and impartial management and monitoring of the peer evaluation process. It is responsible for the decisions on the EA MLA signatory status of National Accreditation Bodies and on results of peer evaluations to be taken for all signatories to the EA MLA.

The EA MAC considered the outcome of the re-evaluation of IPAC (Portugal) and made the decision as follows:

IPAC, the National Accreditation Body of Portugal, remains an EA MLA signatory in the fields of Calibration (EN ISO/IEC 17025), Testing (EN ISO/IEC 17025) including Medical Examinations (EN ISO 15189), Inspection (EN ISO/IEC 17020), Certification of Management Systems (EN ISO/IEC 17021-1), Certification of Products (EN ISO/IEC 17065), Certification of Persons (EN ISO/IEC 17024) and Validation and Verification (EN ISO/IEC 17029).

The next full re-evaluation shall take place in October 2027 (considering the standard 4-year intervals from the initial evaluation).

This decision is valid from 15^th October 2024.

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