27-12-2016
The table below gives an overview of the new RvA accreditations in December 2016. For more information on the accreditation or the organisation, please refer to the list with all accredited bodies.
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Specific Accreditation Protocol R000 contains a brief description for the Accreditation of Providers of Proficiency Testing. This SAP serves as a practical supplement to RvA Policy Rule BR002
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The Specific Accreditation Protocol SAP-C002 contains a brief description for the specific area of accreditation “Accreditation of Certification of IT Service management systems based on ISO/IEC 20000-1”. This SAP serves as a practical supplement to RvA Policy Rule BR002 and was amended on December 15, 2016.
Read more17-12-2016
Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), in particular the Europol Forensics Laboratory, has been accredited against the criteria of the International Standard ISO/IEC 17020 for the forensic examination of banknotes.
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The RvA has recently changed policy rule BR003. Below, a summary of the important changes.
Read more05-12-2016
Specific Accreditation Protocol C000 contains a brief description for the accreditation of management systems based on ISO/IEC 17021-1.
This SAP serves as a practical supplement to RvA Policy Rule BR002.
28-11-2016
The table below gives an overview of the new RvA accreditations in November 2016. For more information on the accreditation or the organisation, please refer to the list with all accredited bodies.
Read more28-10-2016
The table below gives an overview of the new RvA accreditations in October 2016. For more information on the accreditation or the organisation, please refer to the list with all accredited bodies.
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In the week of October 10, employees of the Montenegro accreditation body ATCG, visited RvA for study purposes.
Read more13-10-2016
Explanatory document RvA-T045 describes the RvA policy and the RvA procedure relating to assessments against ISO/IEC 27006:2015, the making of accreditation decisions against this new standard and the replacement of the accreditation declarations and the scopes of the accreditation.
Read more06-09-2016
European cooperation for Accreditation (EA) has started a Twitter page.
Read more31-08-2016
A new Specific Accreditation Protocol (SAP-M000) for medical laboratories has been published.
Read more31-08-2016
The Specific Accreditation Protocol SAP-I003 contains a brief description for the specific area of accreditation “Inspection of soil protection facilities”. This SAP serves as a practical supplement to RvA Policy Rule BR002 and was amended on August 29th, 2016.
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The table below gives an overview of the new RvA accreditations in August 2016. For more information on the accreditation or the organisation, please refer to the list with all accredited bodies.
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The Specific Accreditation Protocol SAP-I000 contains a brief description for the specific area of accreditation “Accreditation of Inspection (general)”. This SAP serves as a practical supplement to RvA Policy Rule BR002 and was amended on August 28th, 2016.
Read more12-08-2016
The explanatory document regarding the accreditation of sampling (RvA-T021) has been changed.
Read more09-08-2016
This explanatory document describes the RvA policy and practices concerning the assessment of Notified Bodies based on European Directives/Regulations.
Read more25-07-2016
This explanatory document describes the RvA policy and practices concerning ISO 15189 scopes for medical laboratories.
Read more22-07-2016
The table below gives an overview of the new RvA accreditations in July 2016. For more information on the accreditation or the organisation, please refer to the list with all accredited bodies.
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The RvA has recently changed two policy rules; BR006 and BR010. Below, a summary of the most important changes.
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The table below gives an overview of the new RvA accreditations in June 2016. For more information on the accreditation or the organisation, please refer to the list with all accredited bodies
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The table below gives an overview of the new RvA accreditations in May 2016. For more information on the accreditation or the organisation, please refer to the list with all accredited bodies.
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The Specific Accreditation Protocol SAP-K000 contains a brief description for the specific area of accreditation “Accreditation of calibration (general)”. This SAP serves as a practical supplement to Policy Rule BR002 and was amended on May 12th, 2016.
Read more18-05-2016
The RvA has changed the regulation for the use of Accreditation marks (RvA-VR003).
Read more10-05-2016
The RvA has recently changed three policy rules; BR002, BR003 and BR005. Below, a summary of the most important changes.
Read more29-04-2016
The table below gives an overview of the new RvA accreditations in April 2016. For more information on the accreditation or the organisation, please refer to the list with all accredited bodies
Read more28-04-2016
RvA has published it's Public Report over 2015 on this website. Theme of this year's report is Working on Confidence.
Read more19-04-2016
In the past week (April 13 -15), RvA hosted the meetings of the EA Certification Committee Working Group Environment and for the FALB (Forum of Accreditation and Licensing Bodies, comparable to EA, but then only for the EMAS Regulation).
Read more05-04-2016
The table below gives an overview of the new RvA accreditations in March 2016. For more information on the accreditation or the organisation, please refer to the list with all accredited bodies
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This explanatory document describes the RvA policy and practices concerning interlaboratory comparisons.
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This explanatory document describes the RvA explanatory notes on NEN-EN-ISO/IEC 17025:2005
Read more26-02-2016
The table below gives an overview of the new RvA accreditations in February 2016. For more information on the accreditation or the organisation, please refer to the list with all accredited bodies
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Specific Accreditation Protocol SAP-L000 contains a description for the accreditation of Testing. This SAP serves as a practical supplement to Policy Rule BR002 and was amended on February 17th, 2016.
Read more09-02-2016
Specific Accreditation Protocol SAP-I004 contains a brief description for the specific area of accreditation "Inspection of inland vessels". This SAP serves as a practical supplement to Policy Rule BR002 and was amended on February 8th, 2016.
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This explanatory document describes the RvA policy and practices concerning microbiological activities
Read more29-01-2016
The table below gives an overview of the new RvA accreditations in January 2016. For more information on the accreditation or the organisation, please refer to the list with all accredited bodies
Read more25-01-2016
The European co-operation for Accreditation (EA) signals a change in the Hungarian accreditation system, that can have an impact on accredited organisations doing business in Hungary.
Read more11-01-2016
On 9 December 2015, the RvA board has determined the RvA fees and charges for 2016.
07-01-2016
In 2013 RvA published its revised policy on Cross Frontier Accreditation (CFA). As RvA still receives many applications for accreditation from Conformity Assessment Bodies from abroad, we would again like to draw your attention to the purpose of our CFA policy rules as described in document BR007, in order to prevent disappointment.
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