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Accreditations
- BELAC Product certification
- EA - European co-operation for Accreditation
- IAF - International Accreditation Forum, Inc.
BELAC
SGS-Belgium-CEBEC activities are accredited by BELAC, the Belgian accreditation body.
BELAC is operated by the Ministery of Trade
SGS-Belgium NV
- Notified body Medical Devices
- Notified body EMC
- Notified body LVD
EA - European co-operation for Accreditation
The Members of EA are the nationally recognised accreditation bodies of the member countries or the candidate countries, of the European Union and EFTA.
BELAC is a member of EA.
EA members having succeeded in a peer evaluation may sign the appropriate multilateral agreement (MLA) for certification body, for laboratory, or for inspection body accreditation under which they recognise and promote the equivalence of each other’s systems and of certificates and reports issued by bodies accredited under these systems.
EA promotes the recognition and acceptance in all the MLA countries of certificates and reports issued by organisations accredited by national accreditation bodies who have signed the MLA.
Through the MLA a uniform level of competence of the accredited bodies involved is assured and the need for multiple assessments is diminished or eliminated. This means that a supplier will only need one certificate or report to satisfy the entire European market and all governments.
This means that the accredited CEBEC certificates are recognised in whole Europe.
IAF - International Accreditation Forum, Inc.
The International Accreditation Forum, Inc. (IAF) is the world association of Conformity Assessment Accreditation Bodies and other bodies interested in conformity assessment in the fields of management systems, products, services, personnel and other similar programmes of conformity assessment.
The primary function of IAF is to develop a single worldwide program of conformity assessment which reduces risk for business and its customers by assuring them that accredited certificates may be relied upon.
Both BELAC and EA are members of IAF.
The primary purpose of IAF is two-fold. Firstly, to ensure that its accreditation body members only accredit bodies that are competent to do the work they undertake and are not subject to conflicts of interest. The second purpose of the IAF is to establish Mutual Recognition Arrangements (MLA) between its accreditation body members which reduces risk to business and its customers by ensuring that an accredited certificate may be relied upon anywhere in the world.
This means that the accredited CEBEC certificates are recognised in the whole world.
