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Title: ILAC%20The%20International%20Laboratory%20Accreditation%20Cooperation%20IAF%20The%20International%20Accreditation%20Forum


1
ILACThe International Laboratory Accreditation
CooperationIAFThe International Accreditation
Forum
  • Latest developmentsMerih Malmqvist Nilsson,
    ILAC Vice Chair

2
Global 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' .

3
ILAC 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

4
Coverage of the ILAC MRA (Apr 2011)
5
Status 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

6
Coverage of the IAF MLA (Apr 2011)
IAF MLA Signatories
IAF Members
7
Regional 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

8
The 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

9
The Benefits
10
ILAC 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

11
IAF 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).

12
Common 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

13
Accreditation in the Market
ACCREDITATION
Peer Evaluation
International Standards
CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT BODIES
Standards / regulatory requirements / scheme
criteria
PRODUCT SERVICE PROVIDERS
14
Recognition
  • 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

15
Developing 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
  • Let us consolidate our visions and processes and
    use the available systems as much as possible

16
Summary
  • 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.

17
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