Title: ILAC%20The%20International%20Laboratory%20Accreditation%20Cooperation%20IAF%20The%20International%20Accreditation%20Forum
1ILACThe International Laboratory Accreditation
CooperationIAFThe International Accreditation
Forum
- Latest developmentsMerih Malmqvist Nilsson,
ILAC Vice Chair
2Global Vision
- A single worldwide programme of conformity
assessment which reduces risk for business,
regulators and the consumer, by ensuring that
accredited services can be relied upon. - Government and Regulators relying on the IAF and
ILAC Arrangements to further develop or enhance
trade agreements. - To support the freedom of world trade by
eliminating technical barriers, realising the
free-trade goal of tested, inspected or
certified once and accepted everywhere' .
3ILAC Membership 30 August 2011
- 72 Full Members (Signatories to the ILAC
Arrangement) representing 59 economies - 20 Associates representing 32 economies
- 19 Affiliates representing 22 economies
- 5 Regional Cooperation Bodies
- 26 Stakeholders
- 31 July 2011 - 50 ILAC Full Members
- Signatories represent about 95 of Global GDP
- Almost 40,000 accredited laboratories
- About 6,700 accredited inspection bodies
- 77 of regulators accept results from accredited
organisations (2010) - Inspection MRA to be launched in 2012
4Coverage of the ILAC MRA (Apr 2011)
5Status of the IAF MLA
- There are 49 IAF MLA Signatories, representing 47
economies. - Management Systems 47 Accreditation Bodies and
EA, PAC IAAC - ISO 9001 QMS 47 Accreditation Bodies and EA,
PAC IAAC - ISO 14001 EMS 41 Accreditation Bodies and EA,
PAC IAAC - ISO 22000 FSMS in development
- ISO 27001 ISMS in development
- Product 38 Accreditation Bodies EA, PAC IAAC
- Persons In development
6Coverage of the IAF MLA (Apr 2011)
IAF MLA Signatories
IAF Members
7Regional Cooperation Bodies
- The IAF and ILAC Arrangements are structured to
build on existing and developing regional
MLAs/MRAs established around the world.
Asia Pacific Laboratory Accreditation
Cooperation (APLAC)
European Cooperation for Accreditation (EA)
Inter-American Accreditation Cooperation (IAAC)
Pacific Accreditation Cooperation (PAC)
Southern African Development Community
Accreditation (SADCA)
- The IAF MLA recognises EA, PAC, IAAC
- The ILAC MRA recognises EA, APLAC, IAAC
8The basis for the recognition arrangements
(MRA-MLA)
- International standards (ISO/IEC 17000 series)
- ISO/IEC 17011 accreditation bodies
- ISO/IEC 17020 inspection bodies
- ISO/IEC 17025 laboratories
- ISO/IEC 17021 certification bodies for
management systems - ISO/IEC 17065 certification bodies for products
and services - ISO/IEC 17024 certification bodies for persons
- Harmonised implementation documents
- Peer evaluation system with trained evaluators
- Decision making process
9The Benefits
10ILAC and OIML
- Memorandum of understanding
- Joint work programme
- Joint assessment procedure
- Training activities
- Common communication to the market
- Review of common documents such as OIML D10 /
ILAC G24
11IAF and OIML
- Memorandum of understanding
- Identified items for a joint work programme
- A survey among IAF members
- Review of a draft OIML Basic Publication
(certification system for prepackages) - Contribution to the OIML seminar on conformity to
type (CTT).
12Common denominators for ILAC IAF and OIML
- Level playing field for all parties producers
and conformity assessment bodies - Promotion of free trade eliminating technical
barriers to trade - Conformity assessment
- Traceability of measurements
- Minimising costs and work load for the actors on
the market - Achieving market confidence
13Accreditation in the Market
ACCREDITATION
Peer Evaluation
International Standards
CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT BODIES
Standards / regulatory requirements / scheme
criteria
PRODUCT SERVICE PROVIDERS
14Recognition
- Who recognizes whom?
- It is the users of the conformity assessment
results who have the prerogative to recognize (or
not) certificates from different parts of the
world - It is our work to make sure that happens
- What is the catch?
- The MLA is voluntary
- Users of reports/certificates do not have to
accept the MLA - There are dishonest players on the market
- It is difficult to detect misuse - It can be
difficult to take legal action - In other words, we cannot relax
15Developing countries perspective
- Work load limited personnel, too many different
systems, many aid projects - Difficulties in meeting the import requirements
of industrialised countries - Many different systems being imposed on them
- Level playing field
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- Let us consolidate our visions and processes and
use the available systems as much as possible
16Summary
- IAF and ILAC are committed to developing a
harmonised global approach for accreditation
practices to ensure consistency of approach. - Both organisations maintain the Arrangements to
ensure equal reliability of accredited services. -
- Growing acceptance by regulators and businesses
is removing technical barriers to trade, and
avoiding the need for duplicate certifications,
testing or inspections. - IAF and ILAC support developing economies to
establish an accreditation infrastructure.
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