The workshop and the General Assembly of EURACHEM were held as part of the EURACHEM week 2024, in the period from May 12 to 17, 2024, in Vilnius, Lithuania.

EURACHEM represents a network of organizations in Europe, whose goal is to establish a system for the international traceability of chemical measurements and the promotion of good laboratory practice.

Representatives of the Directorate for Measures and Precious Metals PhD Jelena Bebic, head of the Group for Metrology in Chemistry and Sofija Vukovic, intern in the Group for Metrology in Chemistry, attended the workshop "Quality assurance in chemical, medical and microbiological laboratories", which was held on the 13th and May 14, 2024.

The organizer of the workshop was EURACHEM - Lithuania. The workshop was attended by 52 participants.

The areas covered during this workshop are validation of equipment, software and methods, metrological traceability and assessment of measurement uncertainty, as well as internal and external quality control.

At the end of the workshop, the EURACHEM General Assembly was held, where reports from EURACHEM member countries on activities during 2023 were presented. PhD Jelena Bebic submitted a report on Serbia's activities for 2023. The election of new members of the EURACHEM management was carried out, the mandates of existing members were confirmed, and some were extended.

The entire EURACHEM week 2024 was dedicated to celebrating the jubilee - 35 years of EURACHEM