European Conference on quality in the spotlight in medical laboratories, Antwerp, Belgium, 7-8 march 2005

All these are conditions “to obey” the ideal test requirements that lead towards a total error budget of one-quarter of the between biological variation for analytical quality. Haukeland University Hospital and NOKLUS, Bergen, Norway) as the Westgard Quality Award winner 2005 at the Quality in the Spotlight conference in Antwerp, Belgium The Antwerp statements from 2003 were reformulated in agreement with the new VIM vocabulary. The requirements of traceability for values carried by calibrators and “trueness control materials” as stated in the EU Directive 98/79 are essential steps for the establishment of comparability of measurement results.