Who we are...
The European Organization for Quality, EOQ, is an autonomous, non-profit making association under Belgian law.
The EOQ is the European interdisciplinary organization striving for effective improvement in the sphere of quality in its broadest sense acting as the coordinating body and catalyst of its National Representative Organizations (NRs).
Within the EOQ network of organizations from European countries and all over the world are linked hundreds of thousands of experts and companies in the field of quality.
The values, vision and mission of EOQ are contained in the EOQ Charter developed and adopted by the EOQ General Assembly.
See brief EOQ presentation.
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. Then, as a first major step in broadening the delivery of a quality agenda 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.
What we do...
EOQ is acting as a worldwide leader in the development and management of quality in its widest sense, and as a key influencer in education in the field of quality in its broadest sense.
EOQ is a crossroads of ideas, knowledge, research and information for the mutual benefit of all.
EOQ’s main products and services:
- Organization of EOQ annual congresses since 1956
- Competence certification of personnel in the field of management systems’ professions: more than 60.000 management systems professionals trained and certified based on the EOQ harmonized scheme since 1993
- Issuing and registration of the EOQ professional competence passport
- Thousands of events organized during the European Quality Week since 1995
- Granting the annual European Quality Leader Award since 2003
- Granting Georges Borel Awards since 2002
- Managing the European Voluntary Registration System (EVROS) a database on information about quality organizations and professionals since 2007
- Organizing the Business Leaders’ Club since 2004
- Organizing Summer Camps since 2001
- Actively involved in the work of European and international organizations for the development and promotion of quality, environmental protection, occupational health & safety, innovation and transformation, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (EOQ Competence Specifications and Certification Schemes)
- Developing contacts relation management in the European Community
Partner for the accreditation bodies associations (EA, IAF)
How we do...
To succeed in its work the EOQ relies on its members who are the operators of the organization.
EOQ Leadership
- The EOQ General Assembly is the supreme organ of the association and possesses all necessary and useful powers to allow it to achieve the purposes of the EOQ. The General Assembly is composed of one representative of each National Representative organization and of the members of the Executive Board.
- The EOQ Executive Board is vested with the full and entire powers to run the affairs of the EOQ and may, to this purpose, perform all deeds that it considers necessary or useful to achieve the EOQ objectives.
- The EOQ President is the Chairperson of the General Assembly and the Executive Board, elected each 3 years.
- The EOQ General Secretariat is dealing with the management of EOQ's daily business, the implementation of the policies of EOQ as directed by the General Assembly and the Executive Board.
EOQ Members are organizations being directly linked with EOQ and contributing to its mission. Depending on their legal status, national representation and kind of activities EOQ member organizations are differentiated by:
- EOQ National Representative Organizations
- EOQ Associated Member Organizations
- EOQ Affiliated Member Organizations
Partners are organizations (profit and non profit) willing to co-operate with EOQ in the diffusion of the Quality movement in Europe. Their contribution could be from different types of resources (financial, expertises, participation to projects, etc.)
