What benefits does accreditation offer?

Accreditation helps CABs deliver services with confidence, as confidence is essential everywhere. Accreditation demonstrates a CAB’s competence to succeed and accomplish activities defined by its specific program scope of accreditation. CABs are able to obtain independent, third-party, credible outputs for themselves and for their customers.

Accreditations offer many benefits:

For companies

  • Better acceptance of products and services eases market access or makes it possible
  • Tested once, accepted everywhere: International comparability and recognition of certificates, inspections, tests or calibrations prevents costs resulting from multiple assessments
  • Proof of competence facilitates the selection of a suitable service provider for the conformity assessment of goods and services

For accredited bodies

  • Objective proof of quality and competence for the activities of conformity assessment bodies according to international standards
  • Competitive advantages over non-accredited market participants

For consumers

  • more consumer trust in the quality of products and services – notwithstanding a complex global marke
  • fewer production errors or recalls

For legislators

  • flexible alternative to legislation