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Services of the General Directorate of Accreditation

Accredited Bodies

“Conformity Assessment Body” means any body that carries out conformity assessment activities, including calibration, testing, certification and inspection. The General Directorate of Accreditation is the only national body that carries out the accreditation of conformity assessment bodies

Technic Information

To assist the CABs with contemporary technical information, please refer to the link:

https://european-accreditation.org/information-center/ea-publications/

This site provides access to all publications compiled by EA. EA-approved international documents are linked to relevant ILAC or IAF sites.

Documentation

In this section you will be familiar with the procedural documents of EA members.

Procedures, Application Application Documents, etc. for accredited bodies for the purpose of ensuring compliance with accreditation practice for all EA-MLA signatories when accredited according to harmonized international standards and technical specifications. The documents are either: Obligative (M) or Guidance (G) or Informative (INF).

Notice

REVISED ILAC P15 PUBLISHED

ILAC P15:05/2020 Application of ISO/IEC 17020:2012 for the Accreditation of Inspection Bodies has been published and is available from https://ilac.org/publications-and-resources/ilac-policy-series/

This revision of ILAC P15 includes updates as a result of the outcome of the ILAC Inspection Committee workshops, ISO CASCO clarification requests and the experience gained in the application of the previous version of ILAC P15 and ISO/IEC 17020:2012. The implementation date for ILAC P15:05/2020 is 18 months from the date of publication on the ILAC website (ie November 2021). The examples of the application of ISO/IEC 17020 removed from the previous version of ILAC P15 as a result of this revision are now available from the IC FAQs: https://ilac.org/about-ilac/faqs/

TRANSITION PERIOD FOR ISO/IEC 17025 EXTENDED

As a result of the recent ILAC ballot the transition period for ISO/IEC 17025:2017 adopted as part of the ILAC Resolution GA 20.15 (November 2016) has been extended from 30 November 2020 to 1 June 2021.

This extension has been granted to ensure all accreditation bodies and the accredited laboratories are able to achieve the remaining transitions in a robust manner under the restrictions imposed as a result of the global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak.

At the end of the transition period, the accreditation of a laboratory to ISO/IEC 17025:2005 will not be recognised under the ILAC Arrangement.

The ISO/ILAC ISO/IEC 17025:2017 Transition Communique available from https://ilac.org/about-ilac/partnerships/international-partners/iso/ has been updated to reflect this extension to the transition period.

IAF decision regarding certification certificates

The International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) have decided that assessments can be replaced by review of documentation only if on-site or remote assessment is not possible in very exceptional cases due to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as travel restrictions, social distance, safety and health at work.
The IAF and ILAC have determined that if the on-site assessment is not possible within 12 months of the review of the documentation, for reasons not attributable to the accreditation body, the accreditation body should normally begin the process of suspending or withdrawing the accreditation of conformity assessment body
For the initial evaluation, just reviewing the documentation is not enough.