Results of the inspections of the accredited certification bodies, laboratories and organizations in

Russian Accreditation Authority (Federal Service for accreditations “RosAccreditation”) has done inspection works on identifying violations in the activities of Russian certification bodies, organizations and testing laboratories.

In the period of October 2017 RosAccreditation conducted 124 inspections.

The inspections were made to:

• Eliminate non-compliance with accreditation criteria;

• Assess the implementation of previously issued injunctions;

• Reveal possible violations by accredited individuals.

Based on the results of the supervision authority activities, violations have been revealed and:

• 21 accreditations received injunctions in order to correct violations;

• 21 accreditations has been suspended among them 7 for certification bodies, 6 for test laboratories and 7 for organizations.

• 54 judicial acts were issued to bring the perpetrators to administrative liability;

• 13 accredited organizations were terminated:

Seven of which in connection with non-fulfillment of the earlier issued injunctions and six with non-elimination of inconsistencies in the accreditation criteria revealed during the procedure for the confirmation of competence.

Testing laboratories:

LLC «Gradient» - РОСС RU.0001.21МБ37

CJSC TIBR - RA.RU.21ГБ08

LLC «MebelGard» - RA.RU.21АР77

Certification bodies:

CJSC TIBR - RA.RU.11ГБ08

LLC «Akadem Test» - RA.RU.11АД32

LLC «Gradient» - RA.RU.11АБ84

LLC «NTC «SERTEK» - RA.RU.10АИ35

RosAccreditation together with the Russian supervision authorities will continue to conduct serious work to prevent the flow of potentially hazardous products into the Russian market circulation along with the elimination of dishonest participants.

Information has been prepared by the GMA Consult Group team.