| Abstract Title: | Validation of Standards |
| Presenter Name: | Dr Marc Coleman |
| Company/Organisation: | National Physical Laboratory |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
Abstract Information :
The need to validate standards has never been greater with the requirement to measure smaller amounts of emissions at increasingly stringent uncertainties. CEN/TC 264 ‘Air Quality’ will only publish a measurement method as a full EN standard if the method has undergone formal validation and the results have been accepted by the Technical Committee. This ensures that the standards the Technical Committee publish (often requested under formal EC mandate) are of known quality and hence, that the fit-for-purposeness for monitoring compliance of emissions with legislation is demonstratable. The importance of validation, traceability of emissions data and the validation process itself will be discussed. Further, recent work within the standardisation community to standardise how standards are validated, and formalising what CEN/TC 264 will accept as a validated, partially validated and unvalidated method will be presented.
