ENAC has recently launched the new Accreditation Programme: Quality control of drinking water. This will enable us to more easily identify those laboratories technically competent to perform a set of tests necessary to assess the health compliance criteria in the Royal Decree 140/2003 of water quality for human consumption.

The programme includes five scopes covering sections which encompass this control, and which may be selected independently: organoleptic examination, control analysis, full analysis, radioactivity analysis and the consumer tap control.

The aim of this new programme is to enable those accredited laboratories, able to offer a complete accredited drinking water quality control, to be identified and selected more easily, according with the needs of the market. In addition, this tool will greatly simplify the interpretation of result reports, helping both the accredited bodies’ customers and the different economic operators (such as regulators) who need this information to differentiate between accredited and non-accredited activities.

For further information, or to resolve doubts, please contact Oscar Recuero (orecuereo@enac.es), head of ENAC's Department of Environment.