This page provides access to the collection of the ATS management system documents (rules, procedures, guides, guidelines, forms, ...), including laws and regulations in the field of the ATS operations, other laws and technical regulations which prescribe the use of accreditation, and promotional and informational materials (brochures, newsletters, reports, factsheets, presentations, ...).
Accredited conformity assessment bodies or those seeking accreditation can find herein the criteria and rules for accreditation that they shall observe at all times, while the application of mandatory documents, such as guides for the implementation of European and international standards and guides in the field of conformity assessment issued by EA, IAF and ILAC are available via links leading to specific locations within their web pages.
Accredited conformity assessment bodies or those seeking accreditation must regularly check whether they have and apply updated versions of required documents when performing their activities or whether they can have internet access to required documents through this web page.
Documents can be downloaded in pdf or zip format.
As the Accreditation Body of Serbia (ATS) performs accreditation in keeping with the procedures, guides and guidelines of the EA (European co-operation for Accreditation) and/or ILAC (International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation) and/or IAF (International Accreditation Forum), this page provides the list and classification of their publications.
Please note that these documents can be downloaded free of charge from their websites (EA, ILAC and IAF update their websites on a regular basis).
The following classification of EA documents was made in keeping with EA 1/14 Procedure for Development and Approval of EA Documents and the Adoption of ILAC/IAF Documents:
Mandatory documents1 shall be implemented by EA member accreditation bodies for use in their accreditation systems. Their implementation will be assessed as part of the EA MLA peer evaluation process. They are required to be used by accreditation bodies when accrediting CABs to ensure that they operate their programmes in a consistent and equivalent manner. EA Mandatory Documents do not establish, interpret, subtract from or add to the requirements of any ISO/IEC/EN Guides and Standards or other technical specifications and normative documents, but assure consistent application of those documents.
Guidance/informative documents2 typically provide technical or scientific guidance and recommended examples on how to fulfil the criteria.
Note: Moreover, Accreditation Body signatories to the EA MLA, as well as signatories to the ILAC or IAF agreements, are obliged to comply with international documents adopted by ILAC and IAF containing globally accepted criteria for application of standards and specifications.
The following classification of ILAC documents was made in keeping with ILAC-R1:09/2009 Classification and Publication of ILAC Documents:
The following classification of IAF documents was made in keeping with IAF PR 2:2012 General Procedures for the Development of IAF Documents: