WHO CAN BE ACCREDITED ?
CEAC offers accreditation services based on international standards such as ISO/IEC 17024 General requirements for bodies operating certification of persons or ISO/IEC 17021 Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of management systems. Any interesting party fulllfilling these requirements may become an potential applicant archiving the second step of the application procedure. After successfully completing step three of the initial assessment candidates we be forwarded to the accreditation bodies committee for inspection. An on-site visit based on the developed risk oriented three or five year assessment plan will kick-off the accreditation procedure.
According to the above mentioned standards certification bodies shall be compliant with a number of requirements.
The following bulleted short list illustrates the mandatory elements (not exhaustive).
- Independently owned legal entity or segregated part of
- Effective quality management system (e.g. ISO 9001, EFQM)
- Operative structures (e.g. management and training)
- Sufficient qualified and quantified resources
- Comprehensive records and information handling
- Proper certification schemes (e.g. scope, sector)
- Optimising certification processes
- Proof of financial stability and operational sustainability
- Transparent impartiality of organisation and decisions
// or any other not listed requirement of the standard.
