A safe and healthy environment is the common goal of several Community directives and regulations, and to this end, water, air and soil have to be regularly monitored and assessed. Measurement standards and benchmarks are indispensable components of modern measurement systems for achieving reliable, and thus comparable, measurement results for environmental monitoring. Therefore, the JRC`s certified reference materials (CRMs) for environmental analysis are needed by testing laboratories for performance assessment and validation of analytical measurement methods required to implement EU environmental legislation.
