The meeting was hosted by the Czech Accreditation Institute (CAI) and held in Marriot Courtyard Prague Flora. The meeting included participants from over 40 national and regional accreditation bodies from all over the world.

The ILAC Accreditation Issues Committee (AIC) met on April 18 and 19, 2012. Eng. Lina Qudah participated in the 15th meeting of the ILAC Accreditation Committee (AIC).

The key topics covered and discussed in the meeting were:

Report from the Chair on the 44th ILAC Executive Meeting, Istanbul, Turkey – 21 June 2011.

Reports from the ILAC AIC Working Groups:
1. Working Group 1 – Information from the AIC to MCC
2. Working Group 2 – Calibration and Traceability Issues
3. Working Group 3 – Reference Material Issues
4. Working Group 4 – Scopes and related assessments
5. Working Group 5 – Accreditation of sampling
6. Working Group 6 – Accreditation in the Medical Field
7. Working Group 7 – Accreditation of Horse Racing Laboratories
8. Working Group 8 – Accreditation of Fire Testing Laboratories
9. Working Group 9 – ILAC/WADA Liaison Group
10. Working Group 10 – Forensic Laboratories
11. Working Group 11 – Case Studies

Particular discussion and workshop was about the revision of ILAC P10: (2002) ILAC Policy on Traceability of Measurement.

• Significant ILAC Liaisons (IEC, JCTLM, REMCO, ISO/CASCO, ISO TC-69, Eurachem and Eurachem/CITAC)
• Reports from the regions (APLAC, EA, IAAC and SADCA)
• Reports from other ILAC committees (LC, MCC, ARC and PTCG)
• Other reports included a report from EPTIS.
• ILAC strategic plan.
• ILAC documents.

The next meeting of the ILAC AIC will be held in association with the ILAC/IAF Conference in Rio de Janiero, Sunday 21 October 2012 and hosted by CCGRE/INMETRO. The mid-year meeting for 2013 will be held in Cape Town, South Africa.  As with previous meetings, the AIC will be held in conjunction with the LC and PTCG meetings.  My thanks to Steve Sidney and NLA for their kind offer to host us all.