EA Membership has a new look
by EA Secretariat
As part of the EA Strategic Plan for 2010-2015, the revision of the EA Articles of Association and Rules of Procedure has been finalized and was presented at the EA General Assembly in May 2011. The revised AoA and RoP are now published on the EA website.
The main change lies in the re-introduction of the EA Associate Membership. The criteria for membership have been revised accordingly and published in EA-1/17 - Supplement 1: Criteria for Membership. This revision was made not only to define membership criteria for Associate Members, but also to align the document with Regulation (EC) 765/2008.
EA now has two types of members:
•Full Members are national accreditation bodies legally appointed, as referred to in Regulation (EC) 765/2008, in a Member State of the EU or the EFTA, or in a country formally identified by the EU or EFTA as a candidate country for EU or EFTA membership;
•Associate Members are the national accreditation bodies legally appointed as such by countries or economies identified by the EU or the EFTA as potential candidate countries or economies for EU or EFTA membership1, or identified by the EU in the European Commission’s European Neighbourhood Policy2 (ENP) as countries or economies of particular importance.
1 “Potential candidates for EU membership" as stated by the European Council meeting in Feira in June 2000 are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo (under UN Security Council Resolution 1244), and Serbia.
2 Countries in the EU’s Neighbourhood Policy are: Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Georgia, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Moldova, Morocco, The Palestinian Authority, Syria, Tunisia, and Ukraine.
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