4. Areas covered by accreditation
4.1 What is accreditation?
To accredit means "to recognize officially, sanction, authorize, certify or guarantee the required standards", implying a certain "recognized level of authority, competence or excellence" (definition taken from the Collins English dictionary). We have no choice but to use such terms, since the term "accreditation" was first used for laboratories in standards texts whose reference language was, and still is, English.
Accreditation is a means of building confidence, enabling regulatory authorities, the market and society to assess whether testing laboratories, inspection or certification bodies (conformity assessment bodies) are performing defined tasks with the high level of reliability required.
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Bibliography
Websites
Bilateral agreement between EA and SANAS http://www.senat.fr/dossier-legislatif/pjl14-561.html
Document IAF-ILAC A1 http://www.ilac.org/ilaciafjoint.html
List of signatories to the ILAC international...
Norms and Standards
- 1re– Conformity assessment – Vocabulary and general principles – Conformity assessment – Vocabulary and general principles – http://www.iso.org - ISO CEI 17000 - 11-04
- International vocabulary of metrology – Basic and general concepts and associated terms (VIM) – International Vocabulary of Metrology – Fundamental and general concepts and associated terms (VIM) (http://www.bipm.org) - JCGM 200 - 2008
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Regulations
Article L. 115-28 of the French Consumer Code designates the national accreditation body in France.
Décret n° 2010-699 du 25 juin 2010 relatif à l'accréditation des organismes de mesures et de vérifications mentionnés à l'article L. 4722-2 du Code du travail (Decree no. 2010-699 of June 25, 2010 on the accreditation of measurement and verification bodies referred to in article L. 4722-2 of the Labor...
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