38th meeting of EA CC
The Certification Committee meeting took place on 3-4
September 2019 in Berlin (Germany), with 56 participants from 38 NABs and 4
stakeholder organizations.
The Certification Committee (CC) previously prepared a
Guidance document for the selection of Conformity Assessment Standards. This
document helps Conformity Assessment Bodies to identify, between Product
Certification and Management System Certification for a given conformity
assessment activity, which one suits them best. A workshop will be organized in
early 2020 by the HHC, with keen interest from CC on how to apply the guidance.
The CC is also elaborating a draft document on
Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) and Protected Geographical Indication
(PGI) described in Regulation (EU) No. 1151/2012 (article 5). These two norms
provide information on the origin and characteristics of the products giving
Consumers a certain level of assurance on the quality of the products they buy.
The Committee has also started the revision of EA-6/04:
EA guidelines on the accreditation of certification of primary sector products
by means of sampling of sites
and EA-3/12: EA Policy for
Accreditation of Organic Production Certification
, which should be ready
for publication at the end of 2020.
A new Task Force Group composed of CAI (Czech
Republic), ENAC (Spain), and European Welding Federation has been set up to
work on the Certification scheme for persons when certification is performed
according to:
- ISO
9606-x Qualification testing of welders — Fusion welding
- ISO
9712 Non-destructive testing — Qualification and certification of NDT
personnel.
ISO/IEC 17029 – Conformity assessment — General
principles and requirements for validation and verification bodies will be
published in October 2019.
More information could be found on the official EA
website HERE
http://www.european-accreditation.org/
The next CC meeting is on 11-12 March 2020 in Sofia
(Bulgaria).