9 June 2015 will mark World Accreditation Day. The focus this year is on the role accreditation plays in supporting the delivery of health and social care.

The day will be celebrated across the world. A joint statement from the Chairs of ILAC and IAF, as well as promotional materials, are available from World Accreditation Day 2015.

The ILAC MRA 2014 Annual Report provides information on the activities carried out as part of the peer evaluation process in 2014 to ensure that regulators and consumers of laboratory and inspection data are able to maintain confidence in the results produced under the ILAC MRA.

The ILAC MRA 2014 Annual Report is available here.

Registration is now open for the Joint Annual Meetings of the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC), to be hosted in Milan, Italy from October 28th to the 6th of November 2015, by ACCREDIA, the Italian National Accreditation Body.

The meetings will be held at the Milan Marriott Hotel and a number of hotel rooms have been set aside at this hotel for delegates.

To register for the meetings and to book hotel accommodation, please visit http://www.iafilac2015.org/

The signatory status of the Institute for Accreditation of the Republic of Macedonia (IARM) has been extended to include medical testing.

The full list of signatories to the ILAC MRA is available from  “here“

ILAC R4:05/2015 – Use of the ILAC Logo and Tagline has been published and is available here.

This document outlines the rules for the use of the ILAC logo and tagline.

Iraqi Accreditation Systems (IQAS), Iraq, is welcomed as an Associate member of ILAC.

We welcome IQAS and look forward to working with our IQAS colleagues.

The signatory status of the Organismo Uruguayo de Acreditación (OUA) has been extended to include calibration.

The full list of signatories to the ILAC MRA is available from  “here“

ILAC News Published

The 47th edition of ILAC News has been published and is available here

Bangladesh Accreditation Board (BAB), Bangladesh, is now a Full Member of ILAC.

BAB has become a signatory to the ILAC MRA for testing (ISO/IEC 17025) via the APLAC MRA.  BAB originally joined ILAC as an Affiliate Member in 2010 and we are now pleased to welcome BAB as a Full Member of ILAC.

The full list of signatories to the ILAC MRA is available here.

IAF/ILAC-A6:02/2015 has been published and is available Invalid download ID. .

This document describes the procedures to be followed in the development, approval and maintenance of IAF/ILAC A-Series documents.