EA, ILAC and IAF Guides and Guidelines

As the Accreditation Body of Serbia (ATS) performs accreditation in keeping with the procedures, guides and guidelines of the EA (European co-operation for Accreditation) and/or ILAC (International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation) and/or IAF (International Accreditation Forum), this page provides the list and classification of their publications.

Please note that these documents can be downloaded free of charge from their websites (EA, ILAC and IAF update their websites on a regular basis).

The following classification of EA documents was made in keeping with EA 1/14 Procedure for Development and Approval of EA Documents and the Adoption of ILAC/IAF Documents:

Mandatory documents¹ shall be implemented by EA member accreditation bodies for use in their accreditation systems. Their implementation will be assessed as part of the EA MLA peer evaluation process. They are required to be used by accreditation bodies when accrediting CABs to ensure that they operate their programmes in a consistent and equivalent manner. EA Mandatory Documents do not establish, interpret, subtract from or add to the requirements of any ISO/IEC/EN Guides and Standards or other technical specifications and normative documents, but assure consistent application of those documents.

Guidance/informative documents² typically provide technical or scientific guidance and recommended examples on how to fulfil the criteria.

Note: Moreover, Accreditation Body signatories to the EA MLA, as well as signatories to the ILAC or IAF agreements, are obliged to comply with international documents adopted by ILAC and IAF containing globally accepted criteria for application of standards and specifications.

The following classification of ILAC documents was made in keeping with ILAC-R1:09/2009 Classification and Publication of ILAC Documents:

The following classification of IAF documents was made in keeping with IAF PR 2:2012 General Procedures for the Development of IAF Documents: