The European Organization for Quality (EOQ) is an autonomous, non-profit making association under Belgian law, having its legal office in Brussels. EOQ is the European interdisciplinary organization striving for effective improvement in the sphere of quality management as the coordinating body and catalyst of its National Representative Organizations (NR’s). EOQ’s Network comprises National Representative, Associated, Affiliated members’ and partners’ organizations from 40 different countries, reaching up to 70,000 members and 500,000 companies linked to its members.
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History
The EOQ (at that time called European Organization for Quality Control - EOQC) was established in 1956 and the founding organizations came from five western European Countries: France, Italy, Western Germany, The Netherlands and United Kingdom. The EOQ spread its roots into other western European countries, before establishing links with central and eastern European countries in what was then seen as a Communist bloc. More recently EOQ has widened its activities to include the countries of the southern and eastern Mediterranean region. EOQ Historical Data - Initiated Projects
Vision & Mission
EOQ brings to Europe the means to develop its economies, seeking to ensure equal access for its citizens to the benefits available from the proper and effective use of quality management systems, to ensure that those nations in need of developmental assistance receive it. EOQ contributes to the development of European organisations and enterprises through the application of quality and change management concepts and techniques. The goal is progress and development of European people and European society as a whole. EOQ believes that an enlarged Europe, with diverse cultures and economic histories, is an opportunity for the success of all Europeans.
Vision
Europe’s leading promoter of Quality
EOQ's Mission
Improve European society through the promotion of Quality in its broadest sense. This will be achieved by:
Products and services
EOQ acts as a worldwide leader in the development and management of quality in its widest sense, and as a influencer in education in the field of quality. EOQ is a crossroads of ideas, knowledge, research and information for mutual benefit. EOQ’s main products, services and activities:
EOQ competence certification
EOQ's goal is to achieve mutual recognition of qualifications within Europe hence, the registration of EOQ certified professionals. EOQ supports all common activities, with respect to the qualification and registration/certification of EOQ certified professionals under the EOQ Harmonized Scheme for the Registration of Personnel (in the field of quality, environment, health and safety, risk, corporate social responsibility and specific sectors), the most successful product of EOQ. EOQ established this scheme, called EOQ’s Personnel Registration Scheme, as a part of its mission to strengthen Europe’s economic system by promoting improvement in all aspects of quality - from developments in quality systems management through to the use of quality as a competitive market force, by anticipating customer needs and creating customer confidence. For this purpose, the EOQ has formed a special unit, the EOQ Personnel Registration Unit (EOQ-PRU), who acts both as a clearing body and as a body for the recognition/certification and acceptance of EOQ certified professionals and deals with:
EOQ promotes the mutual recognition and acceptance of registrations/certificates within the framework of the scheme, actually based on mutual recognition through the European cooperation for Accreditation (EA), granted by its recognized members called EOQ-PRU Agents. Competence certificates based on EOQ normative documents have an outstanding reputation and are objective proof of competence due to the world wide accepted processes of assessment, examination, certification and re-certification used in accordance with the ISO/IEC 17024 standard’s requirements. Today EOQ counts more than 70,000 EOQ competence certificates holders. EOQ certificates have been commended for openness, transparency and credibility.
EOQ competence certifications