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5th Mission Report _KE3_March-April 2013Other IssuesWhilst in Kiev, this provided an ideal opportunity for KE3 to resolve a number of other issues:i) Senior & Junior Non Key Biological ExpertsThe TORs for these positions were finalised as shown in Annex 4 &5. It was agreed for three localcandidates for these positions to be interviewed by KE3. An evaluation form was prepared and agreedand the results are shown in annex 6.Olena Liteitski was considered the best candidate for the Junior BMI position and the senior position hasstill to be resolved.ii) River Basin AnalysisKE3 discussed the current RBA’s with KE2 of the Caucus countries to ensure all the required data for WBsat risk contains sufficient detail.iii) Team Leader MeetingThe TL held an emergency meeting to discuss the results of a high level meeting with the PDs and the EU.The minutes should be circulated later, but one of the urgent issues was to improve communication byholding weekly Skype Conferences and submitting about 5 bullet points to the EU also on a weekly basis.Summary & ConclusionsActivity 1.5The KE3 visited the three Eastern European countries providing training to the water analysisdepartments to ensure that they could establish and/or develop their own internal AQC systems.In Ukraine the KE3 provided supplementary training on the AQC procedures to incorporate the use ofsimple Shewhart Charts in their normal analysis for the BUVR Dnieper. This AQC procedure was found bythe trainees to be simpler than expected, and they realized that no further software would be required.Therefore the Department would in future gradually apply this system for a number of parameters with aview to applying this to all their analyses. This will be reviewed further during the next mission by KE3.In Belarus and the regional laboratories all apply internal quality control standards for the mainparameters. The Department is nationally accredited and the national accrediting agency is soon to beaccepted as an international accrediting agency. Therefore this current accreditation would then beupgraded to the ISO 17025 standard. The senior management in the chemical water laboratories in Minskwas keen to visit Hydromet in Moldova and other international laboratories, as training study tours, toobtain further training in accreditation, which was supported by KE3.In Moldova this training included a customised local workshop at Hydromet as after the last AQC trainingworkshop new staff had recently been engaged. The KE3 was requested to submit another workshop toconcentrate on internal AQC charts and method validations. The staff from the State HydrogeologicalDepartment and the State Ecological Inspectorate were also invited to attend. In addition the results ofthe recent external audit carried out by the accrediting agency were reviewed.It is essential that these AQC systems are established prior to the Joint Field Survey in July 2013.Most countries should now have had sufficient training to undertake this challenge. However, ifnecessary, the KE3 could provide distance training and support prior to his next visit to ensure allcountries can apply these procedures.Page 10 of 23