The European Commission’s "Serbia 2013 Progress Report”, published on 16th October 2013 in Brussels, provided a positive assessment of the Serbian accreditation system. The following sectoral fields were analysed: standardisation, accreditation, metr...
A training seminar entitled “Revision of ISO/IEC 17021:2011 and application in the regulated area” was held in Zagreb, Croatia, in the period between 24th and 25th September 2013. It was organised by the regional PTB project entitled “Promotion of regi...
This year the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and International Telecommunication Union (ITU) sent a joint message to the world on the occasion of the World Standards Day: “Internati...
A communiqué clarifying the relationship between ISO 9001 and the management systems requirements of ISO/IEC 17020 has been agreed between ILAC, IAF and ISO. The IAF- ILAC - ISO communiqué on ISO/IEC 17020 accreditation was issued in response to a req...
In September 2013, the Accreditation Body of Serbia (ATS) made decisions on accreditation for two testing laboratories and three inspection bodies, and a series of decisions on accreditation maintenance, renewal, extension, reduction, withdrawal, etc. ...
The Directorate of Measures and Precious Metals (DMDM), Dimensional Quantities and Acoustics Group, intends to organise in the next period inter-laboratory comparisons in the field of calibration of dimensional quantities (calibration of gauge blocks b...
The Directorate of Measures and Precious Metals (DMDM), Thermometry Group, intends to organise in the next period inter-laboratory comparisons in the field of filled-in-glass thermometers. Interested laboratories are encouraged to apply by 30.09.2013 ...
The Regulation on Metrological Conditions for Non-automatic Weighing Machines (“Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia”, No. 17/13) entered into force on 1st March 2013. Therefore, the Directorate of Measures and Precious Metals (DMDM) issued an an...
During last week the Accreditation Body of Serbia (ATS) was peer evaluated again by the EA peer evaluation team in accordance with the EA-2/02 M: 2011 EA Policy and Procedures for the Multilateral Agreement (Annex 9) and the application that ATS submit...
We hereby inform all interested parties that the Directorate of Measures and Precious Metals (DMDM), Institute of Metrology of Montenegro and Society of Metrologists are organising the 2013 Metrology Congress that will be held in the period between 16t...
In the previous period the Accreditation Body of Serbia (ATS) established a Working Group (WG) that had drafted the document entitled ATS-UP26, Accreditation Criteria and Guides for the Assessment of Certification Bodies Providing Certification of Prod...
In August 2013, the Accreditation Body of Serbia (ATS) made decisions on accreditation for one inspection body and two testing laboratories, and a series of decisions on accreditation maintenance, renewal, extension, reduction, withdrawal, etc. Acc...
We are presenting the twelfth issue of the ATS e-bulletin. This issue’s main topic is “The Association of Accredited Conformity Assessment Bodies Established”. Please send us your suggestions on the topics you wish to read about to our email address at...
New edition of ISO 15189, ISO 15189:2012 Medical laboratories - Requirements for quality and competence, was published at the end of 2012. Hence the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) made a decision that a transitional period f...
In July 2013, the Accreditation Body of Serbia (ATS) made decisions on accreditation for six inspection bodies, two testing laboratories and one calibration laboratory, and a series of decisions on accreditation maintenance, renewal, extension, reducti...
The twenty third meeting of the Communications and Publications Committee (CPC) of the European co-operation for Accreditation (EA) was held in the period between 24th and 25th April 2013 in Bucharest, Romania. It was organised by the Romanian Accredit...
On 5th July 2013, 15th meeting of the ATS Management Board and 4th meeting of the Supervisory Board were held at the premises of the Accreditation Body of Serbia (ATS). The ATS Management and Supervisory Boards discussed the Amendments to the ATS W...
On 25th June 2013, the Accreditation Body of Serbia (ATS) organised a seminar for accredited calibration laboratories, while seminars for accredited testing laboratories were organised on 26th and 27th June 2013 with the aim of introducing the said lab...
It gives us great pleasure to announce that the Association of Accredited Conformity Assessment Bodies (CABs) was established within the Serbian Chamber of Commerce (PKS) with the support of managers and experts from accredited CABs, and in cooperation...
The Ministry of Finance and Economy, MFE (currently Ministry of Economy), as the ministry in charge of authorising companies and other legal entities to perform verification of measuring instruments informed the Accreditation Body of Serbia (ATS) by ...
In May and June 2013, the Accreditation Body of Serbia (ATS) made decisions on accreditation for two testing laboratories, four inspection bodies, one certification body providing certification of persons, and a series of decisions on accreditation mai...
The first Serbian certification body (CB), Organic Control System (OCS), was recognised by the European Commission (EC) as a CB performing certification of organic products in line with the EU legislation, whereby organic products from Serbia could be ...
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management has published a List of designated inspection bodies exercising the control and certification of organic production in 2013 (published in the "Official Gazette of RS", No. 36/13 of 19th April 2013)...
Due to increased number of applications for accreditation and activities to extend the scope of ATS activities, it was necessary to extend the list of assessors and technical experts for the purpose of assessments in the following fields: testi...
On 18.06.2013, the first seminar was held to herald a series of seminars that the Accreditation Body of Serbia (ATS) organised in order to introduce conformity assessment bodies to the changes to its management system documents in order to increase the...
