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:

• 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

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

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

• flexible alternative to legislation