Article 2

Council Directive 79/869/EEC of 9 October 1979 concerning the methods of measurement and frequencies of sampling and analysis of surface water intended for the abstraction of drinking water in the Member States · European Union

For the purposes of this Directive: - "reference method of measurement" means the designation of a measurement principle or a succinct description of a procedure for determining the value of the parameters listed in Annex I to this Directive, "limit of detection" means the minimum value of the parameter examined which it is possible to detect, "precision" means the range within which 95 % of the results of measurements made on a single sample, using the same method, are located, "accuracy" means the difference between the true value of the parameter examined and the average experimental value obtained.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-13 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.