The 13th meeting of the Working Group (WG) 41 of the Technical Committee (TC) 264 on air quality of the European Standard Committee (CEN) dealing with Instrumental Odour Monitoring Systems (IOMS) coded as CEN/TC 264/WG 41, took place in Bilbao, Spain the 3rd and 4th of July. A total of 16 experts met to discuss the new standard on IOMSs, previously known as e-noses.
A new Task Group 5 (TG5) was created in the previous meeting in Milan in order to deal with the implications of the standards on Automatic Measuring Systems (AMS) EN 141881 and EN 15267, on IOMSs. Among the many issues addressed in this meeting in Bilbao, a new proposal to bring a Quality Assurance Level (QAL) 1 was discussed.