The 41st CITAC Members’ Meeting and Workshop was held on 18th April (Saturday ), 2026, at Mercure Paris Boulogne Hotel (Paris, France) in Hybrid format
After opening the meeting, the following topics were discussed:
- Resignations, replacements and new CITAC members
- Corrections and Adoption of a Minutes of the 40th meeting
- In Memoriam of Professor Wolfhard Wegscheider
- Discussion of CITAC procedures Terms of Reference
- Procedure for Awarding Honorary CITAC Membership
- Procedure for awarding CITAC Best Papers
- CITAC website
- CITAC News 2026
After that was CITAC best paper 2025 Award ceremony and presentations of three winners:
- Federica Camin, Dinka Besic, Paul J. Brewer, Colin E. Allison, Tyler B. Coplen, Philip J. H. Dunn, Matthias Gehre, Manfred Gröning, Harro A. J. Meijer, Jean-François Hélie, Paola Iacumin, Rebecca Kraft, Bor Krajnc, Steffen Kümmel, Sangil Lee, Juris Meija, Zoltan Mester, Joachim Mohn, Heiko Moossen, Haiping Qi, Grzegorz Skrzypek, Peter Sperlich, Joelle Viallon, Leonard I. Wassenaar, Robert I. Wielgosz, Stable Isotope Reference Materials and Scale Definitions — Outcomes of the 2024 IAEA Experts Meeting, Rapid. Commun. Mass Spectrom. 39 (2025) e10018 (https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.10018)
- Robin Willink, On the role of probability in science, analytical measurement and QUAM, Accred. Assur. 30 (2025) 245–252 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00769-025-01631-3) Online
- Frank Bastkowski, Beatrice Sander, Simon L. Clegg, Activity Coefficients of HCl in Solutions Related to “Tris” Buffers in Artificial Seawater. III. Tris Buffer + NaCl + H2O, from 0.2 to 3.25 mol kg–1 Ionic Strength and from 5 to 45 °C, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 71 (2026) 33-45 (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jced.5c00450)
At the end of the meeting the following Technical topics were discussed, which should be proposed and voted by CITAC members
- CITAC Bank Account
- CITAC fees
- Financial report by the Secretary
- Financial report audit by the Financial auditor
- CITAC Liaison Reports: Global Accreditation Cooperation Incorporated, CCQM, ISO/ REMCO, Eurachem, IUPAC, APMP, EURAMET, AFRIMETS, IMEKO
- Eurachem/CITAC working groups: Measurement Uncertainty and Traceability
- Qualitative Analysis
- Uncertainty from Sampling
- Eurachem WG on Reference Materials
- Future CITAC events
- The 42th CITAC Members’ Meeting
- Conferences and workshops to be announced
- Other meetings
- Other issues
