Slovak national accreditation service

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 methodical guideline defines the scope and the scope specification of accreditation of bodies certifying products according to ISO/EIC 17065: 2012 and it is obligatory for all employees of the accreditation body and applicants for accreditation.

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.

This document determines SNAS policy on accreditation of laboratories.

This document determines SNAS Policy for Accreditation of Flexible Scope.

This methodological guideline for accreditation stipulates the rights, obligations and responsibilities of the Slovak National Accreditation Service and accredited Conformity Assessment Bodies. MSA applies binding international documents.

The Policy and Procedure of SNAS for the Assessment of Laboratories According to the Requirements of the Standard ISO 15189: 2022. This regulation determines the policy and procedure of SNAS in the transition to the accreditation of laboratories according to the requirements of the reviewed standard ISO 15189: 2022 published in December 2022.

This methodical guideline regulates the procedure for supervision of environmental verifiers (hereinafter, EV) according to ISO/IEC 17021-1: 2015 and Regulation (EC) No 1221/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council (hereinafter, Regulation), amended by Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/1505 and Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/2026. This methodical guideline is obligatory for employees of the accreditation body, applicants for accreditation and environmental verifiers active in Slovak Republic.