This technical guidance aims to answer the need to improve and harmonize:
- the scopes of CEN/TC 230 standards to clarify their applicability, noteworthy to deliver reliable whole
water measurement for end-users readers, analysts and stakeholders needs
- the requirements for the development and validation of future or under development standards with
respect to their claimed scope
- The intralaboratory validation of methods versus surface water matrix and acknowledgment of fitness
for purpose to deliver reliable whole water measurement.
The technical guidance is mostly driven by the issue of surface waters monitoring under WFD but
shall not only be restricted to this context.
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Scope
This technical guidance aims to answer the need to improve and harmonize:
- the scopes of CEN/TC 230 standards to clarify their applicability, noteworthy to deliver reliable whole
water measurement for end-users readers, analysts and stakeholders needs
- the requirements for the development and validation of future or under development standards with
respect to their claimed scope
- The intralaboratory validation of methods versus surface water matrix and acknowledgment of fitness
for purpose to deliver reliable whole water measurement.
The technical guidance is mostly driven by the issue of surface waters monitoring under WFD but
shall not only be restricted to this context.
