Guidelines for cooperation between EA, EC, EFTA

On the 1st April 2009, in a ceremony in Brussels, the EFTA Deputy Secretary General Bergdis Ellertsdottir signed on behalf of EFTA a set of general guidelines with the European Commission, the European cooperation for Accreditation, and national authorities including Norway, Switzerland and Iceland, which set out the defining principles and objectives for future co-operation in the field of accreditation procedures across Europe.