The European Organization for Quality (EOQ) has celebrated the winner of the EOQ presidential Georges Borel Award for international achievements at the EOQ Presidential Meeting in Athens, Greece.
The award recognizes individuals who have made an outstanding accomplishment through successful promotion and deployment of quality at international level through their professional activities and efforts creating a visible impact in the field of quality at the international level in their own countries or at European level.
Dr. Anastasopoulos personally contributed to the development of the European Quality movement. He actively participated in the development of ISO 9001 and ISO 17024 and in 2003, achieved the first accreditation, globally, to ISO 17024:2003. He also became the first Chairman of the International Personnel Certification Association (IPC), chairing the development of the first competence-based IPC regulations for certification of QMS/EMS auditors.
The EOQ Georges Borel Award recognizes individuals who have brought an outstanding contribution to the EOQ mission to "Improve European society through the promotion of Quality in its broadest sense." The European Organization for Quality (EOQ) is associated with more than 70,000 members and 500,000 companies within its member and partner organizations in Europe and worldwide. EOQ is the European interdisciplinary organization striving for effective improvement in the sphere of quality management as the coordinating body and catalyst of its Member Organizations aiming to improve European society through the promotion of Quality in its broadest sense. |
