Accreditation and Certification Bodies

Accreditation and Certification Bodies

When you have, or are developing a quality management system for your organization, and need certification, finding the right certification body to suit your organizations needs can take time. The following is a list of some of the organizations around the globe responsible for conducting accreditation audits and certification as per the regulations applicable to various industries and organizations in different countries:

ACCREDIA: Italian Accreditation System

ANAB: American National Standards Institute - American Society for Quality National Accreditation Board LLC

ANSI: American National Standards Institute

BoA: Bureau of Accreditation (Vietnam)

BELAC: Belgian Accreditation Structure

BMWA: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Labor (Austria)

CAI: Czech Accreditation Institute, (Ceský Institut pro Akreditaci, o.p.s.)

CNAS: China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment

COFRAC: Comite Francais d'Accreditation (France)

DA: Directorate of Accreditation (Albania)

DAC: Dubai Accreditation Center (United Arab Emirates)

DANAK: Danish Accreditation

DAR: German Accreditation Council (DAR)(on behalf of TGA and DAP)

EASA: - European Aviation Safety Agency

ECA: Costa Rican Accreditation Entity

EMA: Mexican Accreditation Entity, (Entidad Mexicana de Acreditacion) 

ENAC: Entidad Nacional de Acreditacion (Spain)

EGAC: Egyptian Accreditation Council

ESYD: Hellenic Accreditation System S.A. (Greece)

FAA: Federal Aviation Administration

FDA: Food and Drug Administration 

FINAS: Finnish Accreditation Service

HKAS:  Hong Kong Accreditation Service

IAS: Iran Accreditation System

INAB: Irish National Accreditation Board

INDECOPI: National Institute for the Defense of Competition and Protection of Intellectual Property (Peru)

INMETRO: National Institute of Metrology, Standardization and Industrial Quality (Brazil)

INN: Instituto Nacional de Normalizacion (Chile)

IPAC: Portuguese Institute for Accreditation

JAA: Joint Aviation Authorities

JAB: Japan Accreditation Board for Conformity Assessment

JAS-ANZ: Joint Accreditation System of Australia and New Zealand

JASC: Japan Accreditation System for Product Certification Bodies of JIS Mark

JIPDEC: Japan Information Processing Development Corporation - Information Management Systems Promotion Center (JIPDEC IMSPC)

KAB: Korea Accreditation Board

KAN: Accreditiation Body of Indonesia (Komite Akreditasi Nasional)

KAS: Korea Accreditation System

MAURITAS: Mauritias Accreditation Service

NA: Norwegian Accreditation

NAA: National Accreditation Association of DPR of Korea

NABCB: National Accreditation Board for Certification Bodies (India)

NAC: National Accreditation Council of Thailand, The Office of

OAA: Organismo Argentino de Acreditacion (Argentina)

OLAS: Luxembourg Office of Accreditation

PAO: Philippine Accreditation Office

PCA: Polish Centre for Accreditation

PNAC: Pakistan National Accreditation Council

RENAR: Romanian Accreditation Association (Asociatia de Acreditare din Romania)

RvA: Dutch Accreditation Council (Raad Voor Accreditatie)

SA: Slovenska Akreditacija (Slovenia)

SAC: Singapore Accreditation Council

SANAS: South African National Accreditation System

SAS: State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), Swiss Accreditation Service

SCC: Standards Council of Canada

SNAS: Slovak National Accreditation Service (Slovakia)

Standards Malaysia: Department of Standards Malaysia

SWEDAC: Swedish Board for Accreditation and Conformity Assessment

TAF: Taiwan Accreditation Foundation (Chinese Taipei)

TUNAC: Tunisian Accreditation Council (Conseil National d'Accréditation, CNA)

TURKAK: Turkish Accreditation Agency

UKAS: United Kingdom Accreditation Service

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