* The EOQ Education and Training committee defines the Knowledge and experience of Quality Professional. * EOQ builds the EOQ Personnel Harmonized Scheme * June 13, 1993: The EOQ General Assembly approves in Helsinki the Memorandum of Understanding for Establishing an EOQ Harmonized Scheme for the Qualification and Registration of Quality Personnel * January 19, 1995 DGQ receives the first recognition certificate as EOQ Agent for registration of personnel HISTORY EOQ_PRU© - the use of any copy of this document or parts of it may be done by mentioning the information source: EOQ-PRU

* October 30, 1996 The EOQ Harmonized Scheme for the Qualification and Registration of Quality Personnel is recorded in the document A European Quality promotion policy for improving European Competitiveness (Ch III, 2, e) : "One of the main methods of bringing coherence to the quality world ….would be to ensure that training programmes develop similar approaches……In this contest, the work already carried out by bodies such as the European Organization for Quality (EOQ), which has developed harmonized scheme, at European level…could be of exemplary value." HISTORY EOQ_PRU© - the use of any copy of this document or parts of it may be done by mentioning the information source: EOQ-PRU

In the period have been developed most of the current EOQ Harmonized Schemes (about 90%) EOQ Harmonized Schemes were developed and approved according to well-defined criteria, based on the proposal of EOQ-PRU Agents The EOQ Harmonized Schemes list is permanently reviewed in accordance with the market requirements, current status of standardization and the Harmonized Schemes results (success) on the market HISTORY EOQ_PRU© - the use of any copy of this document or parts of it may be done by mentioning the information source: EOQ-PRU

Starting 2009 Was established an EOQ Technical Working Group (TWG) to develop EOQ Normative Documents EOQ Normative documents are Competence Specifications (CoS) and Certification Schemes (CS) CoS 9000 and CS 9000 for quality professions (QMT, QSM and QA) have been elaborated, approved and published on the EOQ website Intensive TWG actions to elaborate new CoS and CS for other EOQ professions HISTORY EOQ_PRU© - the use of any copy of this document or parts of it may be done by mentioning the information source: EOQ-PRU