What is Accreditation?

Accreditation is the procedure by which an authorized body assesses the competence of a conformity assessment body to perform specific tasks such as testing, calibration, certification and inspection.
Competence is key to ensuring the transaparicity, reliability and efficiency of the services
provided by Accredited Conformity Assessment Bodies.

Benefits from accreditation

- For regulators
- Technical competence;
- independence, impartiality and integrity;
- risk management;
- proper use of equipment and human resources;  Accreditation Benefits for CABs - Better visibility in the market; - Enables reports and certifications to be more acceptable in overseas markets via international recognition of EA MLA

How can we accredit?

1- Request for Recognition of Procedure 2- Application for accreditation
3- Pre-evaluation
4- Evaluation Visit
5- Evaluation Report 6- Review of the whole process
7- Decision
8- Supervision of accreditation
9 - Renewal of accreditation
10- Complaints and Appeals

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
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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.
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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).

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Notice

Measures taken by the DPA to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus

As part of the precautionary measures for the prevention of COVID-19 virus and pursuant to the Council of Ministers Decision, DPA (General Directorate of Accreditation) informs you that starting from tomorrow, 12.03.2020 until 23.03.2020 has taken the following measures:

  • the evaluation / surveillance visits planned during this period will be postponed to an appropriate time for the Conformity Assessment Bodies and DPA
  • new and expanding applications only through the online system
  • any documentation required to be forwarded by mail or online system or electronically to your lead assessor.

DPA activity is proceeding normally. For any updates on this situation, please stay in touch with our web site and our social networks.

The online application procedure for accreditation

The General Directorate of Accreditation notifies all those interested in re-accreditation, extension, reduction or initial application to apply online at the https://akreditim.dpa.gov.al/ platform.

The Accreditation Informatization System was developed to assist CABs to facilitate the accreditation procedure. It can be accessed by clicking on “Online Accreditation”, which is at the top of our web site. Applying through this system is equivalent to how it is handled in such cases in European Union countries.

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