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Training offer: "The OECD Mutual Acceptance of Data (MAD) system for chemicals management: purpose and benefits"

OECD Webinar 20 November 2025 13:00-14:15 CET

For details and registration please use the following link:

www.oecd.org/en/events/2025/11/the-oecd-mutual-acceptance-of-data-system-for-chemicals-management-meaning-and-benefits.html

 

 

The 2025 SPAQA Members Meeting and Conference was a great success

Venue: Restaurant im Park, Basel (Lange Erlen)

Date:  September 23, 2025


Members Meeting was followed by the GLP Monitoring Authority Roundtable, a presentation of the CSV and GLP Working Groups, a presentation of a Guest Speaker and concluded by a discussion on Artificial Intelligence in a Quality Management System.

 

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The 2025 SPAQA annual dues are payable from 09.2025.  

If you are unable to access the Members only section of the website and have paid your dues, If you please contact us at juergen.karg@bluewin.ch

 

In order to pay your dues for 2025:    Please pay 100 Sfr to the following Post Finance Account. Please note: Since the Annual Meeting is open to all members without additional fees, we request that you pay your dues prior to or in cash on the day of the Annual Meeting .

 

Name Swiss Professional Association of Quality Assurance (SPAQA)
Postal Account number40-17421-9
IBAN electronicalCH4909000000400174219
swift code/BICP O F I C H B E X X X
BankSwiss Post, Postfinance, Nordring 8, 3030 Bern, Switzerland
Clearing number 09000

News from the Working Groups

Networking possibilities galore

GLP Group: The GLP working group is headed by Holger Uhde, F. Hoffmann -La Roche. Holger's leadership of the group was confirmed at the 2024 SPAQA Annual Meeting. If you are interested in becoming a member of the group, please contact Holger at Holger.Uhderoche.com.

The next meeting of the group will be a virtual meeting on November 26, 2025 focusing on feedback from recent interactions between the OECD GLP working party and the industry.

 

CSV group:  The CSV Group restated in 2025

For more information please contact Marion Capobianco at  Marion.Capobiancopmi.com

 

GMP Group: currently no activities  

Recent OECD or AGIT releases

NEW DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE

Finalized Documents

OECD Position Paper on GLP and IT security (OECD 25) released 02 December 2024

OECD Position Paper on Quality Improvement Tools and GLP (OECD 24) released 18 July 2022.

OECD Advisory Document on Quality Assurance and GLP (OECD 23) released 04 November 2022.

Further information on GLP from the OECD can be found here.

 

AGIT Guideline for the Acquisition and Processing of Electronic Raw Data in a GLP Environment (29.04.2025)

AGIT Guideline for the Validation of Computerized Systems (29.04.2025)

Further information on AGIT Documents can be found here.

SPAQA Annual Meeting Presentations Available

The presentations from the 2012-2019 SPAQA Annual Members meetings and Annual Meetings are available in the SPAQA Members Only area.

The presentations from the 2012 Cloud Symposium are also available in the Members Only area. 

The presentations from the GLP Monitoring Authority Roundtable are also available for download. See GLP Roundtable tab.

Contact

SPAQA Board
vorstand@spaqa-gxp.ch 

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