I found out that the prolongation can be grandfathered for the WPQ's as long as you do not let them expire. The problem now is that my NOBO let us qualify fillet welds on Butt Weld WPQs like section IV, come to find out fillet welds require a separate test during qualification unlike Section...
My NOBO BV is telling me that due to the new 2011 EN287 that I need to qualify fillet welds, which in the new standard it calls for. But in the front of the new standard it says "At the end of its period of validity, the existing and valid qualification testing of welders in accordance with...
