Between June 15 to 16, 2011, in Dublin, Ireland, Meeting of the Working Group ЕА WG in the Health Care Sector Laboratory Medicine was held. Meeting was attended by representatives of national accreditation bodies and representatives of professional organizations. Meeting of the working group was chaired by Dr. Rolf Straub (SAS).

Some of the topics discussed at the meeting related to the:

• Status of accreditation of medical laboratories;
• Accreditation of Point of Care Testing (POCT);
• Preparation of training for technical assessors for laboratory medicine;
• In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Directive- 98/79/EC;
• Expression of the scope of laboratory medicine accreditation.