Product Certification
As well as the below publications, all applicant organisations must be aware of the Accreditation: General Requirements documents, which includes fees information. These can be accessed from the 'How do I apply?' page.
The following ASCB documents apply:
Advisory Note 01
Guide 15 Product certifiers accreditation
Form 56 Application form
Requirements for bodies certifying products, processes and services are defined in ISO/IEC 17065. Certification of products, processes or services is a means of providing assurance that they comply with specified requirements in standards and other normative documents. Some product, process or service certification schemes may include initial testing or inspection and assessment of its suppliers' quality management systems, followed by surveillance that takes into account the quality management system and the testing or inspection of samples from the production and the open market. Other schemes rely on initial testing and surveillance testing, while still others comprise type testing only.
Accredited organizations are advised that some activities covered by European Directive 765/08 – Conformity Assessment are outside the scope of ASCB accreditation. While ASCB may consider its accredited organizations competent for certain product certification purposes, authorization for issuing CE and UKCA marks is granted only by EU/UK-notified bodies only.