Slovak national accreditation service

SNAS carries out some its cross-border accreditation activities on a basis of subcontract or carries out an accreditation activity on a basis of subcontract which required another accreditation body. Subcontracting is possible to perform only on a basis of the valid Contracting Agreement signed by both accreditation bodies.

This methodical guideline defines the procedure for witness assessment of validation and verification bodies according to EN ISO/IEC 17029: 2019, EN ISO 14065: 2021, obligatory for employees of an accreditation body and applicants for accreditation.

This document determines the SNAS policy for accreditation of validation and verification bodies.

This document determines SNAS policy for issuing certificates by Certification Bodies for Certification of Products in non-accredited regime

This regulation determines the policy and procedure of SNAS when transitioning to the accreditation of proficiency testing providers according to the requirements of the revised ISO/IEC 17043: 2023 standard published in May 2023.

The conformity assessment bodies are calibration, testing and medical laboratories, inspection authorities, proficiency test organizers, certification authorities for certification of products, management systems and persons, environmental verifiers and green-house gas emissions verifiers. The assessors and experts play a decisive role in this area. The effectiveness and trustworthiness of an accreditation body depends on proficiency, professionalism and independence of its assessors and experts and on an effective system for their qualifications improvement, monitoring their performance and proficiency and on their evaluation.

The National Good Laboratory Practice Compliance Monitoring Programme in the Slovak Republic (hereinafter NP GLP) was elaborated on the base of the Act No. 67/2010 Coll. on conditions applicable to the placing on the market of chemical substances and chemical mixtures, amending certain acts (Chemicals Act) and in compliance with the Government Decree No. 320/2010 Coll. in current version adjusting the activities of the test facilities and the activities of inspectors carrying out inspections, audits and verification of compliance with the principles of good laboratory by test facilities through inspections and audits of non-clinical studies on ensuring monitoring of GLP principles.

This document determines SNAS policy on protection and use of SNAS logo, accreditation and combined mark of accredited body.

This document stipulates the statute of and rules of procedure for the SNAS Terminology Commission.

This prescription delineates SNAS policy applied when changes are often occurring within accredited entities/laboratories as for used accredited normative documents laying  down  testing  and calibration  methods  because  of  updating  or homogenization with European or international standards.