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Accreditation procedures divided into four basic phases are:
Application of Accreditation
- Conformity assessment authority (the Client) shall submit a formal application to ESMA.
- Preliminary meeting with Client shall be hold to agree with the accreditation procedures and the expected costs.
- The Client shall fill the application submit it to the accreditation management.
- The accreditation department shall review the application with the attached documents to ensure its completion.
- A received confirmation letter of the accreditation application shall be sent to the client.
Assessment - Select the assessors by the assessment department and the technical committee.
- The client approval of the suggested assessors.
- Issuing assignment letter for the approved assessors.
- Assessing the quality manual and the related documents.
- Carrying out assessing for the technical qualification in the site.
- Preparing a technical and final assessment reports.
Granting the Accreditation- The technical committee shall assess the reports sent by the assessors.
- Accreditation committee shall recommend the suitable decision of granting the accreditation.
- The board of director will be informed for the final decision.
- The accreditation certificate shall be issued for the client.
- The accreditation shall be declared in the formal newspaper and the website of ESMA.
- Registering the accredited conformity assessment authority in the conformity assessment databases.
Regular Assessment - Annual assessment visits for the accredited authorities.
- Accreditation renewal after 5 years according to conformity assessment authority recommendations.
- Execute the regular assessment by assessing the site efficiency as participating in the accredited laboratories on a clear comparison programs or skills test or documentation reassessment.
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