Staff
Article 1
1. The EU reference laboratories shall document and justify the knowledge and experience requirements for staff, including the director, the scientific and the technical staff, needed to fulfil the EU reference laboratory tasks in the field of specific devices, categories or groups of devices, or specific hazards related to a category or group of devices for which the EU reference laboratories are designated (‘scope of designation’). 2. The EU reference laboratories shall have staff that fulfils the requirements referred to in paragraph 1 and document how those requirements are fulfilled. 3. The EU reference laboratories shall have a sufficient number of the staff referred to in paragraph 2 in relation to the volume of the tasks that the EU reference laboratories are to carry out in their scope of designation. 4. The EU reference laboratories shall put in place a continuous training and education programme for their staff.