2000-11 The European Certification Process (ECP) U. Kaps1 6, R. Roche2, J. Thompson3 16 1Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung (DGZfP) 160, Berlin, Germany 2Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (EMPA) 269, Dübendorf, Switzerland 3British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing,BINDT 32, Northampton, United Kingdom NDT-wide, training certification, EN
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BACKGROUND At an international conference on certification and standardisation held in England during 1996 it was proposed to establish a European wide certification scheme. Subsequently, informal discussions resulted in a meeting between representatives of the British Institute of NDT, COFREND and DGZfP to discuss the practicalities of the proposal. As a result, it was agreed that the three societies would jointly develop, for the then European Council for NDT, subsequently to become the EFNDT (European Federation for NDT), A European Central Certification Process (ECP). The main objectives at that time were twofold: * technical harmonisation of certification in Europe * Enhanced negotiating power for recognition by organisations such as ASME and the FAA. A working group was formed from representatives of each of the founding NDT Societies (the authors of this paper). This group was constituted at a June 1997 meeting of the ECNDT Qualification & Certification Working Group as a Working Group of ECNDT with a remit to develop the European Certification Process on the basis of an initial proposal by the founding NDT societies. The Working Group
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