At its last meeting in March 2015, the EA Laboratory Committee elected Laurent Vinson from the French NAB (COFRAC) as its new Vice-Chair.
Further to the EA General Assembly’s appointment of Natalija Jovicic-Zaric from the Serbian NAB (ATS) as the acting Chair of the EA Laboratory Committee until the next elections of the Executive Committee in May 2015, the EA LC vice-chairmanship was a vacant position.
The EA LC should then organize the election of a new vice-chair at its meeting on 18-19 March 2015 in Athens, Greece, where Laurent Vinson from COFRAC, the French National Accreditation Body, was elected with a clear majority to his new tasks.
From inspection accreditation…
Electromechanical engineer, Laurent Vinson joined COFRAC in 1996 as Accreditation Manager for Inspection activities. Graduated from Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne University with a Master of Business Administration, he was nominated as Head of COFRAC Inspection Section in 2003. Laurent took part in the EA Inspection Committee and ILAC/IAF Joint Inspection Group activities; he was also involved as a Team Member in EA and ILAC peer-assessments.
to laboratory accreditation
After being nominated Director of COFRAC Laboratories Section in April 2008, he became member of the EA Laboratory Committee and the ILAC Accreditation Issues Committee (AIC). Since 2010, he has been taking the responsibility of the ILAC liaison officer with the International organization of Legal Metrology (OIML); as such, he contributed a lot to the publication of “Joint ILAC-OIML Assessment Procedure in the field of Legal Metrology” in December 2014.