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ATS informs interested experts that there is a need to hire technical experts for the assessment of calibration laboratories and testing laboratories.

Sincerely, Your ATS

IAF CertSearch is a global database where users can search and validate the status of accredited certification issued by a Certification Body which has been accredited by an IAF signatory member Accreditation Body under main scope ISO/IEC 17021-1. The base started operating on February 1, 2020. So far, over 1,000,000 certificates have been issued throughout the accreditation community, and in the IAF CertSearch system, 68 accreditation bodies have activated their accounts and stored details of 909 certification bodies, 7 of which  are Serbian, and 402,082 certificates. The database has been officially named as IAF CERTSEARCH and will be available through the IAFCERTSEARCH.org domain upon publication.

The European Accreditation Organization (EA) published the document EA-INF/17:2020 Register of EA resolutions for use by the EA, National Accreditation Bodies and EA evaluators on its website on January 6, 2020. This document contains a register of all relevant EA resolutions that have not been transferred in EA documents but that are still valid for conformity assessment bodies, national accreditation bodies, and evaluators.

The 44th session of the EA General Assembly, organized by the National Accreditation Body of Hungary (NAH), featured 102 delegates from 47 national accreditation bodies of the EA, the European Commission, EFTA and 8 organizations of recognized stakeholders by EA.

The video of the seminar dedicated to the accredited CABs which was held at the Kombank Hall in September this year can be viewed on the ATS YouTube channel.

The Joint Commission (JC) for Economic Cooperation between the Republic of Serbia and Hungary 10th meeting of was held in Budapest from 12 to 13 November 2019. On that occasion, the 2020 Action Plan between the Accreditation Body of Serbia (ATS) and the National Accreditation Body of Hungary (NAH) was signed, among other things. Co-presidents Goran Knezevic, Minister of Economy of the Republic of Serbia, and Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary were the chairmenof the delegations.

The Accreditation Body of Serbia had the honor and pleasure to be invited to the celebration of the Turkish Accreditation Body on the occasion of its 20th anniversary. Prof. Aco Janicijevic, PhD, the ATS Acting Director, attended this festive event that took place on November 1, 2019, in Antalya.

A joint annual meeting of international accreditation organizations IAF and ILAC was held in Frankfurt from 21 to 31 October 2019. The Joint General Assembly of these organizations has decided to endorse the recommendation of the Joint Executive Committee regarding establishing a single international accreditation organization based on the results of research carried out to support the IAF 2020 - 2025 and ILAC 2021 - 2025 Strategic Plans.

The 42nd meeting of the EA MAC was held in Vilnius (Lithuania) from 2 to 3 October 2019.

The  38th meeting of the Laboratory Committee of the European co-operation Accreditation (EA LC), was held in Warsaw, Poland from 25 to 26 September 2019.

The EA Certification Committee (EA CC) meeting was held from 3 to 4 September 2019 in Berlin. It featured 56 participants from 38 national accreditation bodies and 4 stakeholder organizations.

We hereby inform all interested parties that on 5 April, 2018 the Institute for Standardization of Serbia (ISS) published standard SRPS ISO 45001: 2018 - Occupational health and safety management systems- Requirements with guidance for use. The Acc...

We hereby inform all interested parties that on 30 November, 2017 the Institute for Standardization of Serbia (ISS) published standards SRPS ISO/ IEC 17021-3: 2017 Conformity assessment- Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of ...

We hereby inform all interested parties that on 30 November, 2017 the Institute for Standardization of Serbia published the standard SRPS EN ISO 13485: 2017 Medical devices - Quality management systems - Requirements for regulatory purposes. The Ac...

We hereby inform all accredited certification bodies (CBs) for certification of management systems for QMS and EMS that by 15 September 2018 all ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004 certificates will expire and will not be valid any longer.   Taking...

In March 2018, the Accreditation Body of Serbia (ATS) made decisions on accreditation granting and a series of decisions on accreditation maintenance, renewal, extension, reduction, suspension, withdrawal etc.  Accreditation was withdrawn to the fol...

In February 2018, the Accreditation Body of Serbia (ATS) made decisions on accreditation granting and a series of decisions on accreditation maintenance, renewal, extension, reduction, suspension, withdrawal etc. Accreditation was granted to the fol...

On January 19, 2018, the Accreditation Body of Serbia organised a meeting with accredited/designated inspection and certification bodies in the field of pressure equipment and mobile pressure equipment in the Palace of Serbia. The meeting was also atte...

In January 2018, the Accreditation Body of Serbia (ATS) made decisions on accreditation granting and a series of decisions on accreditation maintenance, renewal, extension, reduction, suspension, withdrawal etc.  Accreditation was granted to the fol...

On January 25, 2018, the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) published the document entitled IAF MD22: 2018 "Application of ISO / IEC 17021-1 for the Certification of Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems (OH & SMS)", which is a...

In December 2017, the Accreditation Body of Serbia (ATS) made decisions on accreditation granting and a series of decisions on accreditation maintenance, renewal, extension, reduction, suspension, withdrawal etc.  Accreditation was granted to the fo...

After three years’ work of the ISO CASCO Working Group 44, on 30 November 2017 ISO published third edition of standard ISO/IEC 17025 (ISO/IEC 17025:2017).  Testing laboratories and calibration laboratories can find out about the key differences from...

The Accreditation body of Serbia held annual meetings with its assessors on 10, 11 and 12 January 2018 in Palace of Serbia, Belgrade. On the meetings that were held for each type of accreditation separately, the assessors were given information on ...

In November 2017, the Accreditation Body of Serbia (ATS) made decisions on accreditation granting and a series of decisions on accreditation maintenance, renewal, extension, reduction, suspension, withdrawal etc.  Accreditation was granted to the fo...

We hereby inform all conformity assessment bodies as well as all interested parties that on 1st December 2017 new editions of the following standards were published: ISO/IEC 17025:2017, General requirements for the competence of testing and calib...