Working Group on quality assurance and quality control in laboratories
The task of the Working Group is to further develop the harmonised methods in field quality assurance and quality control in laboratories.
The Working Group works in close co-operation with the Expert Panels on Deposition, Foliage & Litterfall and Soil & Soil Solution as the Working group is regularly organizing ring tests to evaluate the sample analysis of the different national laboratories. For more detailed information on the procedures of the working ringtest programmes, files and results please visit the pages:
- Atmospheric Deposition and Soil Solution Working Ringtest Programme
- Foliage and Litterfall Ringtest and QA/QC information
- Soil Ringtest and QA/QC information
The 10th Meeting of the Heads of the Laboratories took place in Pamplona, Spain, from 17 to 18 June 2026. For more information please visit the event info.

Tamara Jakovljević: Chair
Affiliation:
Croatian Forest Research Institute
Mail:
tamaraj@sumins.hr
Post Address:
Croatian Forest Research Institute
Cvjetno naselje 41
10 450 Jastrebarsko
CROATIA

Michael Tatzber: Co-Chair
Affiliation:
Austrian Research Centre for Forests
Mail:
michael.tatzber@bfw.gv.at
Post Address:
Seckendorff-Gudent Weg 8
1131 Wien
AUSTRIA