On Tuesday, 13th November 2012, the Accreditation Body of Serbia organised a lecture on the subject of accreditation in the field of food safety. The lectures were given by Jasna Stojanović, ATS Acting Director, and Ljiljana Markićević, Head of the Lab...
By means of ILAC Resolution GA 16.06 the scope of the ILAC Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA) was extended to include the accreditation of inspection bodies on 24th October 2012 at the annual ILAC/IAF meetings held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Thirty-...
Training on Eco Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) was delivered in the period between 30th and 31st October 2012 in Sarajevo and was organised by the PTB project and Institute for Accreditation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BATA). EMAS implementation...
Training in the requirements of Directive 97/23/EC (Pressure Equipment Directive), i.e. requirements for notified conformity assessment bodies according to this directive was delivered as part of the bilateral PTB project entitled “Support of the Quali...
The Accreditation Body of Serbia signed the ILAC MRA for the fields of calibration, testing and inspection, and IAF MLA for the field of certification of products at the Annual Meeting of the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and International La...
The training in accreditation of notification bodies in the field of construction products (training and witnessing) was delivered in Athens in the period between 8th and 10th October 2012 and was organised by PTB and Greek Accreditation Body (E.SY.D.)...
On 17th October 2012, the roundtable discussion on the subject of implementation of the Regulation on Lift Safety was held at the premises of the Ministry of Finance and Economy with over 50 delegates that took part therein. Numerous issues of im...
On 8th October 2012, Jelena Popović MSc, Assistant Minister at the Ministry of Finance and Economy, visited the Accreditation Body of Serbia (ATS) in order to be introduced to the activities of the new ATS management. The aim of this meeting was to...
The European Commission "Serbia 2012 Progress Report”, published on 10th October 2012 in Brussels, provided a positive assessment of the Serbian accreditation system. The following sectoral fields were analysed: standardisation, accreditation, metrolog...
On Monday, 4th October 2012, a meeting was held at the premises of the Ministry of Finance and Economy (MFE) to present the analysis of the capacities of the Republic of Serbia to start negotiations in order to sign the ACCA agreement with EU. In add...
On Monday 24th September 2012, the World Bank organised a roundtable discussion at the premises of the Ministry of Finance and Economy on the subject of "Metrology, standards, testing and quality" as part of the EU funded "Serbia Innovation Project"....
EURACHEM published the third edition of the Eurachem/CITAC Guide "Quantifying Uncertainty in Analytical Measurement". The new version is closely consistent with the second edition, but adds information based on developments in uncertainty estimation an...
In September 2012, the Accreditation Body of Serbia (ATS) made decisions on accreditation for four testing laboratories, two calibration laboratories, three inspection bodies, one certification body providing certification of products, and a series of ...
We are presenting the ninth issue of the ATS bulletin in electronic format. This issue’s main theme is “The role of accreditation and occupational health and safety”. Please send us your suggestions on the topics you wish to read about to our email a...
A workshop for the representatives of eight beneficiary countries (regulators, national accreditation bodies, conformity assessment bodies) was held in Istanbul, Turkey, on 14th May 2012 as part of the activities of the EU funded (regional IPA project)...
In August 2012, the Accreditation Body of Serbia made decisions on accreditation granting for two calibration laboratories and one inspection body, and a series of decisions on accreditation maintenance, renewal, extension, withdrawal, transfer and red...
Pursuant to cl. 4.5.2 of the Rules of Accreditation, ATS-PA01, and Procedure ATS-PR15, Decision-making and Granting Accreditation, decisions on accreditation shall be made by the Director of Accreditation Body of Serbia (ATS) on the basis of a propos...
We hereby inform all accredited testing laboratories and those seeking accreditation that a stack emission proficiency testing (PT) scheme is organised by an accredited provider LGC Standards. All information about the scheme are available at the follo...
According to the EA procedure for the acceptance of schemes covered by the EA MLA, EA commenced assessment of the FAMI-QS (European Feed Additives and Premixtures Quality System) scheme in April 2010. After the assessment has been performed, EA HHC (H...
EA LC WG ILC (Working Group of the Laboratory Committee for Inter-laboratory Comparisons of the European co-operation for Accreditation) usually uses the existing PT schemes in order to assess the comparability of the laboratories of the EA members. T...
The novelty in case of the 8th revision of the Accreditation Rules relates to clause 4.4.3 Elimination of Nonconformities requiring that the deadline to eliminate the cause of nonconformities shall be changed as of 11th July 2012 for all future assessm...
In July 2012, the Accreditation Body of Serbia made decisions on accreditation granting for two testing laboratories and two inspection bodies, and a series of decisions on accreditation maintenance, renewal, extension, and reduction. Accreditation wa...
A Working Group of the Accreditation Body of Serbia was established in order to take a stand as regards the description of the measuring ranges in the field of testing of building materials and the following conclusion was made: - in case when a stand...
New issue of the document entitled ATS-UP24 Guidelines for the Application of ISO/IEC 17021:2006 for Combined Audits entered into force on 2nd July 2012.
In June 2012, the Accreditation Body of Serbia made decisions on accreditation granting for one testing laboratory and three inspection bodies, and a series of decisions on accreditation maintenance, renewal, extension, and reduction. Accreditation w...
