Accreditation
Article 8
1. Member States or the Commission may presume that laboratories that are accredited in accordance with the harmonised standard EN ISO/IEC 17025, the reference of which has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union , by a national accreditation body, operating in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 765/2008, are in conformity with the requirements set out in the following provisions of this Regulation: (a) Article 1; (b) Article 2(1), point (b); (c) Article 4(1) and (2) and Article 4(3), points (a), (d) and (e); (d) Article 5(1), points (a) to (c) and Article 5(2); (e) Article 6(2); (f) Article 7(3), points (a) to (c). 2. The scope of the accreditation referred to in paragraph 1: (a) shall cover the methods of laboratory analysis or testing which are relevant to the scope of designation of the EU reference laboratory; (b) may comprise one or more methods of laboratory analysis or testing or groups of methods; (c) may be defined in a flexible manner, so as to allow the scope of the accreditation to include modified versions of the methods used by the laboratories when the accreditation was granted or new methods in addition to those methods, on the basis of the laboratories’ own validations and without a specific assessment prior to the use of those modified or new methods by the national accreditation bodies.