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Accreditation: A Global Tool to Support Public Policy
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Note: The World Accreditation Day video includes subtitles in over 10 languages which can be accessed using the Youtube Link above. The Spanish translation of the Video and Brochure are available from the Spanish page of the ILAC website. Chinese and Japanese translations of the World Accreditation Day supporting materials are available from the Chinese page and the Japanese page.
9 June 2016 marked World Accreditation Day as a global initiative, jointly established by the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC), to raise awareness of the importance of accreditation.
2016 focused on how accreditation can be a global tool to support public policy for all areas in the public sector – national and local government, regulators. To help explain the use of accredited conformity assessment, the Public Sector Assurance website was established to showcase different global examples where accreditation has been used to support public policy efforts.
As in previous years, the day was celebrated across the world with the hosting of major national events, seminars, and press and media coverage, to communicate the value of accreditation to Government, Regulators and the leaders of the business community.
Accreditation: Supporting the Delivery of Health and Social Care
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Joint Statement from Peter Unger and Randy Dougherty - web version
Joint Statement from Peter Unger and Randy Dougherty - print version
9 June 2015 marked World Accreditation Day as a global initiative, jointly established by the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC), to raise awareness of the importance of accreditation.
2015’s theme focused on how accreditation can support the delivery of health and social care.
As in previous years, the day was celebrated across the world with the hosting of major national events, seminars, and press and media coverage, to communicate the value of accreditation to Government, Regulators and the leaders of the business community.
Accreditation: Delivering Confidence in the Provision of Energy
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Joint Statement from the Peter Unger and Randy Dougherty
June 9 2014 marked World Accreditation Day, a global initiative established by the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) to raise awareness of the importance of the importance of accreditation-related activities.
2014 focused on the role of accreditation in providing confidence in the provision of energy.
As in previous years, the day was celebrated across the world with the hosting of major national events, seminars and press and media coverage, to communicate the value of accreditation to Government, Regulators and the leaders of the business community.
Accreditation: Facilitating World Trade
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Joint Statement from Peter Unger and Randy Dougherty
9th June 2013 marked World Accreditation Day, a global initiative jointly established by the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) to raise awareness of the importance of accreditation-related activities.
As in previous years, the day was celebrated across the world with the hosting of major national events, seminars and press and media coverage, to communicate the value of accreditation to government, regulators and the leaders of the business community.
The theme of the day in 2013 focused on how accreditation is used to support global trade. Nationally, there is a greater recognition of accreditation, particularly from regulators, who are adopting accreditation as a mechanism to deliver a multi-discipline solution that can support or act as an alternative to legislation.
World Accreditation Day provides an excellent opportunity for the accreditation community to extend its influence and demonstrate how accreditation can be applied to a wide variety of assessment, approval or evaluation tasks that can be used to address a wide range of sectors.
Accreditation: Supporting safe food and clean drinking water
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Joint Statement from Peter Unger and Randy Dougherty
June 9 2012 marked World Accreditation Day, a global initiative jointly established by the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) to raise awareness of the importance of accreditation-related activities.
Supporting the work of Regulators
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Joint Statement from Pete Unger and Randy Dougherty
June 9 2011 marked World Accreditation Day, a global initiative jointly established by the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) to raise awareness of the importance of accreditation-related activities.
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Joint Statement from the ILAC and IAF Chairs
June 9 2010 marked World Accreditation Day, a global initiative jointly established by the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) to raise awareness of the importance of accreditation-related activities.
Global acceptance of accredited certificates is a central pillar of accreditation as the harmonization of assessment requirements and processes at a worldwide level provides businesses and regulators with confidence that products entering the market conform to specification, meet national legal and regulatory requirements, and will therefore serve to protect public interests in general.
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Joint Statement from the ILAC and IAF Chairs
June 9 2009 marked International Accreditation Day, a global initiative jointly established by the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) to raise awareness of the importance of accreditation-related activities.