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Regisrations for the 2026 scheme have started.
Should you already have participated in our tests, check your Member Area.
You may register at any time during the year as long as registration deadlines are not over.
For a first participation, please complete the form on the Contact page to get a quote.
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- In fresh waters and waste waters (programmes 59 "Perfluorinated compounds in fresh waters" and 59A "Perfluorinated compounds in waste waters") : 9 PFAS and 2 US PFAS are added to the PFAS already provided in order to meet the requirements of the Water-Framework Directive. For each PFAS (except TFA and TFMS), participants will be able to report results for the linear isomers but also for the sum of linear and branched isomers.
- In sediments and soil: new programmes 48 "Perfluorinated compounds in solid matrices" with the quantification of 21 PFAS
Find the descriptions of these programmes on the pages organic pollutants in clean waters, organic pollutants in waste waters and chemistry in solid matrices
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Specific EQA to assess your Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing:
- 118 Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing by diffusion - disk method
- 118A Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing by diffusion - gradient method (MIC strips)
- 118B Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing - Broth microdilution method
- 118C Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing - RAST method
Materials testing laboratory
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You are an industrial company in the building or construction sector, or a laboratory providing services to industrial companies for the characterisation of their materials or waste treatment. Your materials or waste are tested.
AGLAE provides you with interlaboratory comparisons in various solid materials (sediments, sludges, polluted soils and sites, industrial waste, bituminous waste, solid fuel products).
Materials testing in your laboratory
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This may involve analyses of :
- natural materials such as soils, sands, clays, minerals or
- building materials, including cement, concrete, bitumen, coatings, etc.
The most commonly tested materials are: cements, clinkers, ashes, additives, aggregates, soils, sediments and building stones.
You carry out material characterisation tests, i.e. you assess the physical, chemical, mechanical, thermal, electrical, optical and magnetic properties of materials. Knowing their characteristics enables you to ensure their conformity and control the risks of possible failures (cracks, breakage, corrosion, etc.).
As far as physico-chemical tests are concerned, chloride and sulphate measurements are carried out on concrete and cement, as well as sulphur and organic pollutant analyses on aggregates. Granulometry is carried out on concrete.
Your expectations in terms of Quality Control
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The EU environmental policy is largely determined by its implementation at national, regional and local levels. In France, each company is responsible for the waste it produces and/or holds until it is eliminated. Waste elimination involves the collection, transport, storage, sorting and treatment required to recover reusable elements and materials or energy, as well as disposal or discharge into the natural environment. Waste must be characterised.
Depending on the category, the operators responsible for processing the waste are required to hold an authorisation.
Which proficiency tests could be of interest to you?
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This category of interlaboratory comparisons may be of interest to you:
Chemical pollutants in waste, sediments, soils, granulometry (see Chemistry in solid matrices)
By taking part in these interlaboratory comparisons, you will receive an estimate of your analytical performance, enabling you to improve the quality of your analyses of materials and waste.
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AGLAE provides several programmes including the analysis of C. perfringens:
- 30A 'Spores of SRA and Clostridium perfringens in fresh waters and waste waters': enumeration of the spores of sulfite-reducing anaerobes, spores of Clostridium perfringens and of the paramètre 'spores and vegetative cells' of Clostridium perfringens. The test samples are suitable for the check of waste waters for the irrigation of green spaces and crops.
- 39 'Vegetative cells and spores of Clostridium perfringens in clean waters': each laboratory enumerates, according to ISO 14189, vegetative cells and spores of Clostridium perfringens by membrane filtration in samples of water aimed at human consumption.
Note also the spores of sulfite-reducing anaerobes implemented in the programme 30 'Microbiology in clean waters'.
More information about these interlaboratory comparisons