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• Accreditation
• 2nd and last level of control in the conformity
  assessment chain
• Operates in the voluntary and in the mandatory
  fields for
• calibration
• testing
• inspection
• certification (products, personnels, systems)
• Independant and impartial
• Transparent and open
• International recognition through MLAs.

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• Legal entity under the Dutch Law (non for
  profit)
• Members
• 45 Full Members (signatories to the Arrangement)
  representing 36 economies
• 15 Associates representing 14 economies
• 22 Affiliates representing 18 economies
• 4 Regional Cooperation Bodies
• 19 Stakeholders

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ILAC Arrangement
From EA
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ILAC Arrangement
From APLAC
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ILAC Arrangement
From IAAC
From SADCA
Unaffiliated
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Organisation Structure
General Assembly
Arrangement Council
Arrangements Management Committee
Executive Committee
Secretariat
Technical Accreditation Issues Committee
Joint Development Support Committee
Accreditation Policy Committee
Public Affairs Committee
Laboratory Committee
Finance Audit Committee
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• Legal entity incorporated in Delaware (USA) (Non
  for profit)
• Members
• 41 Accreditation Body Members (of which 32 are
  MLA signatories)
• 15 Associates (stakeholders)
• 4 Regional Groups
• 2 Special Recognition Interest Liaison Group
  (ISO, QUEST)

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IAF MLA SIGNATORIES
From EA
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From PAC
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From IAAC
From SADCA
Unaffiliated
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• Legal entity under the Dutch Law (Non for
  profit)
• Members
• 39 Full Members (among which 31 signatories to
  the MLA)
• 3 Associate members
• 12 Contracts of cooperation
• Stakeholders are not members of EA but are
  constituting the EA Advisory Board

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Organisation Structure
EA ADVISORY BOARD
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF ACCREDITORS
Secretariat
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Inspection Committee
Laboratory Committee
MLA Committee
WG
WG
WG
WG
WG
WG
WG
WG
WG
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• Main Tasks of ILAC, IAF and EA
• Harmonization of accreditation practices between
  members (establishing guidances)
• Establishing a multilateral recognition
  agreement/arrangement (peer evaluations)
• Promoting accreditation as a tool for
  facilitating trade
• Helping developping countries to set up their
  own accreditation scheme

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• Facilitating trade
• (nationally and internationally)
• Reducing the need for multiple assessments one
  stop testing, one stop certification
• Traceability of measurements to SI Units
• Recognition by Industry
• Recognition by Regulators MOUs between
  EA/European Commission, EA/EFTA
• Cooperation with standardization MOU between
  ILAC/IAF/ISO signed in march 2004
• cooperation in technical work
• complaint exchange procedure

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Helping developping countries

• Joint ILAC/IAF Committee
• identify needs (trainings, translations,)
• Organize seminars
• Money allocated in 2004
• ILAC budget 10 000
• IAF budget 20 250
• Countries already helped Argentina, Nicaragua,
  Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Chili, Guatemala,
  Panama, Columbia, Costa Rica

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• In project Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and
  some African countries not yet selected
• Cooperation with UNIDO separate MOUs signed
  between ILAC/UNIDO and IAF/UNIDO
• At the European level, EA coordinates projects
  financed by the European Union (e.g PHARE, MEDA)

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CONCLUSION Accreditation carried out by IAF and
ILAC MLAs signatories offers the best means to
reduce and even eliminate conformity
assessment-related trade barriers and facilitate
trade. Its pilars are independancy,
impartiality, transparency and openness