EU ministers approve accreditation process for forensic laboratories
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As criminal cases increasingly have a cross-border component within the EU’s 27 member states, the council wants all forensic laboratories to be reliable. In future, a national accreditation body within each member state will accredit forensic service providers operating laboratories as complying with the relevant International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) guidelines.
“The overall aim…is confidence-building between EU member states,” the Council said.
“As a consequence of EU legislation such as the Eurodac regulation [on building an EU-wide fingerprint database] the amount of data transferred across the EU increases. It will therefore become increasingly important to ensure that the quality of the data is sufficiently high.”
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