ACCAB

Accreditation Commission For

Conformity Assessment Bodies

ACCAB Platinum Plus™ Accreditation

For
Certification Bodies, Inspection Bodies, Testing & Calibration Laboratories
and Medical Laboratories

A New Paradigm in the Global Conformity Assessment

 ACCAB
Accreditation Commission For
Conformity Assessment Bodies
CONTENT

Introduction To ACCAB 1

A Brief About ISO, International Standards,

Conformity Assessment And Accreditation 3

ACCAB Accreditation Scheme for The

Management Systems Certification Bodies 5

ACCAB Accreditation Scheme for

Product Certification Bodies 5

ACCAB Accreditation Scheme for

Bodies Operating Certification of Persons 6

ACCAB Accreditation Scheme for

Inspection Bodies 6

ACCAB Accreditation Scheme for

Testing & Calibration Laboratories 6

ACCAB Accreditation Scheme for

Medical Laboratories 7

ACCAB Accreditation Scheme for

Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) 7

ACCAB Accreditation Scheme for

Good Clinical Practice (GCP) 8

ACCAB Scheme for Bespoke Accreditation 8

ACCAB Accreditation Process 9

 ACCAB
Accreditation Commission For
Conformity Assessment Bodies

INTRODUCTION TO ACCAB: The Board of Director has overall authority and

responsibilities for policies and procedures for the
Accreditation Commission for Conformity operations of ACCAB. The Board delegates to the
Assessment Bodies (ACCAB) is an independent, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ACCAB the
International Accreditation Body (AB). It works responsibility to implement the ACCAB policies
to serve the global communities of businesses and and procedures. Accreditation Approval
consumers. ACCAB accredits appropriately Committees make decisions concerning the
qualified independent third party Conformity granting and continuation of accreditation.
Assessment Bodies (CABs) such as Certification
An independent Impartiality Committee
Bodies, Inspection Bodies, Testing & Calibration
representing the broad range of stakeholders
Laboratories and Medical Laboratories to ensure
reviews and adjudicates on possible conflicts of
their competence to carry out specific tasks as per
interest. The authority vested is ACCAB is that
the International Standards & the Benchmarks.
assigned to them by the Conformity Assessment
ACCAB Accreditation is voluntary in nature.
Bodies and other Organization it accredits and
ACCAB is a trading name for Accreditation recognizes by virtue of these applicant and
Commission For Conformity Assessment Bodies accredited bodies pledging support for the mission
Private Limited. A company limited by shares and objectives of ACCAB and ensuring that their
established in terms of Companies Act, 1956, actions are according to that policy. It is an
Republic of India. independent, impartial and non-governmental
body and makes no claim to be connected with any
ACCAB operates in accordance with the
government.
requirements, criteria, rules and regulations laid
down in the following documents: ACCAB is an Affiliate Member of International
Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC)
 The requirements of the international
www.ilac.org - is an international cooperation of
standard ISO/IEC 17011 – General
laboratory and inspection accreditation bodies
requirements for bodies providing
formed more than 30 years ago to help remove
assessments and accreditation of
technical barriers to trade.
conformity assessment bodies
ACCAB has specific permissions from
 The requirements and other benchmarks
International Organization for Standardization
as stipulated in the Publicly Available
(ISO), International Laboratory Accreditation
Documents (PAD) published by various
Cooperation (ILAC), International Accreditation
international bodies and ACCAB
Forum (IAF) to use their publications / documents /
 Legally established objectives as per guidelines for the benefit of its Applicant and
Memorandum & Articles of Association Accredited Conformity Assessment Bodies.
with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs

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 A BRIEF ABOUT ISO, INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS,
CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT AND ACCREDITATION

International Organization for Conformity Assessment

Standardization (ISO) The process of demonstrating the essential
ISO is a global network that recognizes as to features about a product or services which
which international standard will be required by meet the requirement of standards, regulations
business, society, government – develops them and other specification is called conformity
and adopts them by the use of transparent assessment. A variety of PROCESSES
procedure in order to be implemented worldwide. involved in verifying that goods/services meet
It is a federation of national standard bodies acceptable voluntary or mandatory standards
amongst various countries, one per country. such as Testing , Surveillance, Inspection,
International Standards Assessment, Auditing, Certification and
Registration.
According to ISO/IEC Guide 2:2004 Objectives of Conformity Assessment are to:
Standardization and related activities – General
vocabulary, standard is a document established • Ensure the conformance of
by consensus and approved by a recognized body products/services with relevant
that provides for common and repeated use, rules, standards (ISO, IEC/BIS etc)
guidelines or characteristics for activities or their
results, aimed at the achievement of the optimum • Encourage international trade
degree of order in a given context. (attempts to check trade malpractices)
• Standards help to make life simpler and • Prevent sale of substandard/unsafe
to increase the reliability and the
product
effectiveness of many goods and
services we use • Prevent importation of substandard
• Standards are created by bringing products
together the experience and expertise of • Save lives and property
all interested parties such as the
producers, sellers, buyers, users and • Prevent pollution of air and water
regulators of a particular material, • Conserve hard-earned foreign
product, process or service
exchange
• Standards are designed for voluntary use
and do not impose any regulations.
However, laws and regulations may refer
to certain standards and make Internationally Accepted Standards
compliance with them compulsory and Conformity Assessment Principles
• Voluntary Standards become mandatory Agreed to by . . .
only when they are incorporated into • WTO
contracts or they are referenced or • ISO
adopted by government agencies as part • IEC
Due Process
of a regulation to protect public health, • SDOs
safety, and the environment
• The difference between a standard and a Consensus
technical regulation lies in compliance.
While conformity with standards is Openness Transparency
voluntary, technical regulations are by
nature mandatory

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27006:2015

ISO 14065:2013 Green House Gases -

ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015- Conformity Assessment -

17021-1:2015
1. ISO/IEC 17025:2017 - General requirements
system principles of ISO 9001:2015.
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ACCAB PLATINUM PLUS ACCAB Scheme for Bespoke
ACCREDITATION SERVICES: Accreditation

ACCAB

ACCAB Accreditation Scheme

for Good Clinical Practice
(GCP)

International Conference on Harmonization

(ICH)'s Good Clinical Practices (GCP) is an Traditionally industry, trade, business, and
ethical and scientific quality standard for professional associations as well as chambers of
designing, conducting and recording trials that
commerce have played and will continue to play a
involve the participation of human subjects. Good
significant role as a critical link between
Clinical Practice Guidelines include standards on
entrepreneurs and the government. The
how clinical trials should be conducted, define the
roles and responsibilities of clinical trial contributions of these various associations thought
sponsors, clinical research investigators, and to be immense in terms of securing the general
monitors. Compliance with this standard provides acceptance of industry standards, encouraging and
assurance to public that the rights, safety and well enforcing codes of ethics, and increasing the
being of trial subjects are protected and ensures economic welfare of members and individuals.
that the clinical trial data is credible. It also Same is the case with the Conformity Assessment
provides assurance of the safety and efficacy of
Bodies who wish to offer conformity assessment
the newly developed compounds.
services where an established Standard / Guide is
ACCAB GCP Accreditation is independently not available. In order to satisfy these
delivered service requires that the Clinical requirements, ACCAB, in consultation with the
Research Organization must conform to the most
Technical Advisory Committee will decide on the
recent version of International Conference on
Harmonization (ICH)'s Good Clinical Practice suitable accreditation criteria keeping the relevant
Guidelines. stakeholders interest in mind.

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ACCAB Accreditation Process: