may be defined in a flexible manner, so as to allow the scope of the accreditation to include modified versions of the methods used by the European Union reference laboratory when the accreditation was granted or new methods in addition to those methods, on the basis of the laboratory's own validations without a specific assessment, prior to the use of those modified or new methods, by the national accreditation body of the Member State where the European Union reference laboratory is located;
féadfar an creidiúnú a shainiú ar bhealach solúbtha, ionas go n-áireofar i raon feidhme an chreidiúnaithe leaganacha modhnaithe de na modhanna a d’úsáid an tsaotharlann tagartha de chuid an Aontais Eorpaigh nuair a deonaíodh an creidiúnú, nó modhanna nua sa bhreis ar na modhanna sin, ar bhonn bhailíochtú na saotharlainne féin gan measúnú sonrach a dhéanamh, sula ndéanann comhlacht creidiúnaithe náisiúnta an Bhallstáit ina bhfuil an tsaotharlann tagartha de chuid an Aontais Eorpaigh suite na modhanna modhnaithe nó na modhanna nua sin a úsáid.