TY - JOUR A1 - Golze, Manfred T1 - Information system and qualifying criteria for proficiency testing schemes JF - Accreditation and quality assurance N2 - Since October 1998 the European Commission has financed a concerted action on Information System and Qualifying Criteria for Proficiency Testing Schemes within the 4th framework program. As a major result of this project EPTIS, the European Information System on Proficiency Testing Schemes which is available on the Internet since March 2000, is presented in this paper. Today EPTIS contains comprehensive information on approximately 640 proficiency testing schemes from 16 European countries providing information on the state of the art in proficiency testing in Europe. Finally some possible approaches for interlinkages and recognition of proficiency testing schemes are discussed. KW - Keywords Proficiency testing KW - EPTIS KW - Quality characteristics KW - Accreditation PY - 2001 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00013518 SN - 0949-1775 SN - 1432-0517 VL - 6 IS - 4-5 SP - 199 EP - 202 PB - Springer CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-987 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -