To provide a focus for promoting best practice. To facilitate a group approach to identifying and resolving issues faced by laboratories. To be a forum for formulating unified industry responses to proposed changes in legislation and standards.

To encourage and assist Members to provide high quality, appropriate and reliable testing services.

Permanent objectives

1. Provide a forum for discussion of commercial issues.
2. Provide a forum for discussion of issues affecting the testing sector of the ground industry (eg Health and Safety accreditation training
3. Facilitate co-ordination of industry views and comments on new legislation, regulations and standards. (eg current work in CEN/TC 341)
4. Support external accreditation.