What is Accreditation?

Accreditation is the process in which an accreditation body is endowed with business ethics, utmost integrity, unconditional credibility, and maintaining absolute neutrality is given to the responsibility and authority to undertake certification and assessment of a firm in the most appropriate manner.

Globalization process has brought great changes in the way trade is done in between the buyer and the seller. It has cut across boundaries and simplified the process by incorporating certain new process such as third-party. These third party auditors take the role of responsible advisors by assisting the buyer and the seller through the process of certification that is neutral and fair.

Accreditation is defined by International standards of organization as “third party attestation” related to a conformity assessment conveying formal demonstration of its competence to carry out specific conformity assessment tasks. To ensure that there is ample trust and confidence to do the International trading among buyers and suppliers, to infuse the above they offer accreditation by independently evaluating the certifying bodies.

The process of accreditation aims at paving way for smooth trade overcoming the various impediments. Accreditation ensures the buyers to buy with confidence from suppliers across the seas. This is due to the fact that certifying agencies verify, inspect and certify the quality of goods that are to be transshipped to the prospective buyer.

An accreditation body like iQASB adopts and follows important objectives that are laid down by EU directives and the world trade organization technical business to trade (WTO/TBT).