A2LA and ANSI (American National Standards Institute) have been formally recognized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as an Accreditation Body offering Notified Body (NB) accreditation under ISO/IEC 17020:2012, ISO/IEC 17025:2005, and ISO/IEC 17065:2012. Currently, A2LA is the only accreditation body recognized by NIST to offer accreditation to all three conformity assessment standards.
These standards form the basis for NB accreditation based on Section 4 of NIST’s Requirements & Application for U.S. Conformity Assessment Bodies Seeking EU Radio Equipment Directive (RED) 2014/53/EU Notified Body Status and Requirements & Application of U.S. Conformity Assessment Bodies Seeking Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Directive 2014/30/EU Notified Body Status, which both state that “The [organization] shall obtain formal accreditation for its Notified Body activities.”
The newly published Directives become effective in a relatively short window of time, at which point the NB accreditation requirements come into place –April 20, 2016 for the EMC Directive, and June 13, 2016 for the RED.
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