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Hotel Booking Available Hotel that has an agreement with meetings in Lisbon (special rate for participants in the EUROLAB International Workshop), is: SANA Lisboa Hotel **** Single (Standard): 95,00 € * Twin (Standard): 105,00 € Contact Person: Cristina Nunes * Phone Number: (+351) 21 006 4363* E-mail: sanalisboa@sanahotels.com Avenida Fontes Pereira de Melo, 8 * 1069-310 Lisboa (Portugal) * Phone Number .: (+351) 21 006 4300 GPS Coordinates: 38.7274, -9.1486 * 38°43'39"N 9°08'55"W * The map for Hotel Sana Lisboa The participants should make their own reservation directly to the chosen hotel.

International Workshop

Objectives

The main aims of this workshop are:

− To present different views of the several challenges and opportunities linked to the globalization of the laboratories activity;

− To share experiences and expectations of speakers and participants in relevant areas as Accreditation, Quality Management and Competitiveness.

Addressee

Top Management, Directors, Quality Systems Managers, Laboratory assessors and Business Agents, that are related to Accredited Testing and Calibration Laboratories.

Language

The working language of the workshop is English. No simultaneous translation will be provided. All the materials concerning the workshop will be written in English. Location

LNEC – National Laboratory for Civil Engineering Avenida do Brasil, 101 1700-066 Lisboa Contact Person

Ana Maria Duarte Direct phone: +351 213 139 846 Fax: +351 213 139 841 E-mail:ana.duarte@relacre.pt Includes

Coffee-Breaks and Lunch. Sponsors:

Preliminary Programme 9:30 - Opening Session

1st Session: European Challenges for the Laboratories 10:00 - The challenges facing laboratories in a global economy – how EUROLAB can

help Jeff Llewellin (Vice President of EUROLAB a.i.s.b.l. and President of BMTA (EUROLAB UK))

10:30 - A different point of view on testing: what do market surveillance authorities expect? Jan Deconinck (PROSAFE Chairman)

11:00 - Coffee-Break

2nd Session: Accreditation and Quality Management 11:20 - (To be defined)

Paolo Bianco (ACCREDIA-Laboratory Department Director, European Accreditation /LC Chairman)

11:50 - The Role of Laboratories in the Global Economy: A Challenge or an Opportunity? Carol Stewart (Exova Technical Director, Health Sciences & Environmental (Canada, America, Europe and the Middle East), BMTA (EUROLAB UK) and EUROLAB-CEOC representative on JTC PTC Committee)

12:30 - Lunch

3rd Session: Global Markets and Competitiviness 14:00 - Trends and developments in the international laboratory markets

Drewin Nieuwenhuis (General Secretariat of CEOC International)

14:30 - An approach to an enhanced competitiveness framework in the European Laboratory market Irache Visiers (Quality Manager APPLUS, Vice President of TCQA-EUROLAB)

15:00 - The importance of probability distributions in the revised GUM! Maurice G. Cox (National Physical Laboratory Senior Fellow)

15:30 - Coffee-Break

4th Session: European Views on the Future of the Laboratory Activity 15:45 - Round Table

Moderator: Álvaro Silva Ribeiro (President of RELACRE/EUROLAB Portugal)

Ömer Güzel - TurkLab (EUROLAB Turkey) José Luís Sánchez Álvarez-Campana - FELAB (EUROLAB Spain) Peter Blinksbjerg - EUROLAB Denmark

17:15 - Closing Session