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 The EA Multilateral Agreement Council (EA MAC) is responsible for the effective and impartial management and monitoring of the peer evaluation process.

The EA Multilateral Agreement Council (MAC) held its 53rd meeting on 1 October 2025 in Brussels, Belgium.

ATCG, the National Accreditation Body of Montenegro, became an EA MLA signatory in October 2023

EA conducted a newcomer training session in June 2026 for potential peer evaluators.

As signatory to the EA MLA the accreditation system operated by UKAS continues to be accepted by the other signatories as equivalent to their own accreditation system

The EA Multilateral Agreement (MLA) was signed by 44 EA Members by end of 2022.

The EA MAC has just held its 49th meeting on the 4th and 5th of October 2023 in Brussels, Belgium.

EA published the EA MLA Report 2025.

As of 19 June 2026, the mark has been registered in all EA MLA member countries, and a new EA-3/01 Supplement 3 for Switzerland has been published.

EA held a MAC Refresher Training for Team Members authorized in Calibration (EN ISO/IEC 17025), Reference Material Producers (EN ISO/IEC…

The EA MLA Mark is not an ordinary mark. It is a collective European & international mark that reflects a shared commitment by all NABs signatories to the EA MLA to competence, transparency, harmonisation, and the specific role and value of the European Accreditation system.

The European co-operation for Accreditation (EA) is recognized by the European Commission to operate the peer evaluation system according Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 on accreditation.

The EA MAC considered the outcome of the re-evaluation of EAK (Estonia), and took several decisions.

The EA Multilateral Agreement Council (MAC) held its 50th meeting on 24-25 April 2024 in Sofia, Bulgaria.