NEW
YORK, June 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ --
The ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB) has expanded its
signatory status with the International Accreditation Forum (IAF)
multilateral recognition arrangement (MLA) to level 3 main scope of
ISO/IEC 17029, Conformity Assessment - General Principles And
Requirements For Validation And Verification Bodies, as of
March 20, 2024.
Accreditation is an important tool in the removal of technical
barriers to trade and in promoting the international acceptance and
recognition of goods and services. This is achieved through
Multilateral Recognition Arrangements (MLAs) signed by
accreditation bodies that have demonstrated their competence
through rigorous peer evaluation. IAF is the global oversight body
for conformity assessment accreditation bodies whose core function
revolves around establishing a unified global framework for
conformity assessment, aimed at minimizing risks for both
businesses and consumers.
As global needs evolve and standards and systems of conformity
assessment keep pace, the MLA systems require continual update. To
this end, MLAs continue to be developed or expanded, with ANAB
ensuring that its accreditation programs adhere to those updates.
ISO/IEC 17029 was released in 2019 as a new standard for validation
and verification for a variety of potential sector applications.
The most prominent example of ISO/IEC 17029 has been in the
validation and verification of environmental information,
specifically with the use of ISO 14065, General Principles And
Requirements For Bodies Validating And Verifying Environmental
Information. ANAB operates an ISO 14065 program and has been a
signatory for the IAF MLA for greenhouse gas since 2018.
While not new to validation and verification, the recent
recognition demonstrates ANAB's continued dedication to providing
best-in-class accreditation of validation and verification bodies.
Expanding this signatory status means that ANAB's validation and
verification accreditation program is recognized internationally as
meeting the requirements of:
- ISO/IEC 17029 to the validation and verification scope, along
with the following sub-scopes associated with this:
- ISO 14065, Bodies validating and verifying environmental
information
- ISO 14066, Competence requirements for teams validating and
verifying environmental information
- ISO 14064-3, Specification with guidance for the
verification and validation of greenhouse gas statements
- International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Carbon
Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation
(CORSIA)
ANAB undergoes periodic rigorous evaluation to maintain and
expand its signatory status and commit to the IAF MLA. As part of
this commitment, ANAB will maintain conformity with ISO/IEC
17011, Conformity assessment — Requirements for
accreditation bodies accrediting conformity assessment bodies,
and recognize the competence and impartiality of accreditation of
conformity assessment bodies by all other members of the MLA.
Through this recognition of other MLA accreditation bodies, ANAB is
helping to maintain the conformity assessment
infrastructure—reducing the need for multiple assessments and
helping to facilitate international trade by encouraging regional
and worldwide acceptance of valid certificates, registrations, and
results issued by signatory accreditation bodies.
"ANAB is deeply committed to assuring the integrity of
accredited validation and verification, and supporting our many
stakeholders in the ongoing journey to build integrity in carbon
and sustainability disclosure frameworks," said Lori Gillespie, ANAB vice president of
management systems, validation and verification, product
certification. "The extension of the MLA to include ISO/IEC 17029
will bolster our efforts to add new programs under the MLA as we
continue along this path in new areas of validation and
verification."
About ANAB
The ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB), a wholly
owned subsidiary of the American National Standards Institute
(ANSI), is the largest multi-disciplinary ISO/IEC 17011
accreditation body in North
America, with comprehensive signatory status across the
multilateral recognition arrangements of the International
Accreditation Forum (IAF) and International Laboratory
Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC). The ANAB accreditation portfolio
includes management systems certification bodies, calibration and
testing labs, product certification bodies, personnel credentialing
organizations, forensic test and calibration service providers,
inspection bodies, police crime units, greenhouse gas validation
and verification bodies, reference material producers, and
proficiency test providers. For more information,
visit www.anab.org.
About ANSI
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is a private
non-profit organization whose mission is to enhance both the global
competitiveness of U.S. business and the U.S. quality of life by
promoting and facilitating voluntary consensus standards and
conformity assessment systems, and safeguarding their integrity.
Its membership is comprised of businesses, professional societies
and trade associations, standards developers, government agencies,
and consumer and labor organizations.
The Institute represents and serves the diverse interests of
more than 270,000 companies and organizations and 30 million
professionals worldwide. ANSI is the official U.S. representative
to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and,
via the U.S. National Committee, the International Electrotechnical
Commission (IEC). For more information,
visit www.ansi.org.
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