text: A significant task, regularly carried out by CSMBLM since 1970, is the external assessment of the performance quality of all medical biochemistry laboratories in the Republic of Croatia. The external evaluation programs are updated and continually expanded according to the needs of the profession and in line with the European organizations for labor quality assessment (EQAL). Assessment results are the basis for the rating of medical laboratories carried out by the Croatian Chamber of Medical Biochemists.
  In this way CSMBLM provides continuous professional and advisory help in harmonization and evaluation of laboratory results at national and international level for medical biochemistry laboratories and all other laboratories which work in a field of laboratory medicine.