General considerations

Accreditation is the third party attestation, which represents the confirmation of the fact that a body is competent to perform specific conformity assessment tasks. It helps to increase the competitiveness of products and services in the context of market globalization.

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International recognition

The international recognition agreements facilitate the access on the export market. The accreditation bodies can become signatories of agreements at the European level of EA-MLA and at international level of IAF-MLA, respectively ILAC-MRA.

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Areas of accreditation

Accreditation of calibration laboratories, testing laboratories, medical analysis laboratories, certification bodies for management systems, the environmental verifier, product certification bodies...

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General considerations

Updated: 2012-04-05 20:20:09

Accreditation

  • Offers confidence in the technical competence, impartiality and integrity of the bodies' and laboratories that perform conformity assessment.
  • Contributes to increase competitiveness of products and services within the market globalization.
  • Contributes to promoting the free circulation of products and services.
  • Promotes the protection of life, health and the security of persons, environment and protection of consumers' interests.

The accreditation activity follows the basic principles:

  • Transparency and public availability
  • Public interests representation
  • Voluntary character
  • Independence towards the possible predomination of any specific interests
  • Participation of the competent bodies within the public administration
  • Impartial treatment of complaints
  • Harmonizing with the European and international accreditation rules
  • Free non-discriminatory access to accreditation
  • Confidentiality assurance and protection of the commercial secret
  • Appliance of the national reference standards of SR EN 45000, SR EN ISO 9000, SR EN ISO 14000 series, etc.

The accreditation offers many advantages to the economic actors:

  • Risks minimization
  • Avoidance of multiple assessments
  • Rising clients confidence
  • Reducing the products' recognition costs on the external markets
  • Reducing the general expenditures

The accreditation is essential for:

  • The performance of a market oriented towards quality
  • Public authorities
  • Conformity assessment bodies