Mra Signatories 5

Signatories to the ILAC Mutual Recognition Arrangement
No. Accreditation Body Economy Scope Original

Signing Date
1 General Directorate of Accreditation (DPA) Albania 1 Testing ISO/IEC 17025 16 May 2016
Testing ISO/IEC 17025 & ISO 15189 11 Aug 2005
2 Organismo Argentino de Acreditacion (OAA) Argentina 2 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 11 Aug 2005
Inspection ISO/IEC 17020 26 Oct 2013
Testing ISO/IEC 17025 02 Nov 2000
Testing ISO 15189 13 Jan 2016
3 National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia (NATA) Australia 3
Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 02 Nov 2000
Australia/New
4 Joint Accreditation System of Australia and New Zealand (JAS-ANZ) 3 Inspection ISO/IEC 17020 07 Nov 2012
Zealand
Testing ISO/IEC 17025 & ISO 15189 22 Sept 2002
5 Akkreditierung Austria Austria 4 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 22 Sept 2002
Testing ISO/IEC 17025 09 Mar 2015
6 Bangladesh Accreditation Board (BAB) Bangladesh 5
Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 29 June 2015
Testing ISO/IEC 17025 & ISO 15189 01 Aug 2006
(e) (p)
7 Belgian Accreditation Structure (BELAC) Belgium 6 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 01 Aug 2006
Inspection ISO/IEC 17020 29 Mar 2013
Bosnia and
8 Institute for Accreditation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BATA) 7 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 21 Nov 2012
Herzegovina
Inspection ISO/IEC 17020 21 Nov 2012
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Signing Date
BOTSWANA 8
Angola 9
Congo 10
Lesotho 11
Madagascar 12
Malawi 13
Southern African Development Community Accreditation Service Testing ISO/IEC 17025 04 Nov 2015
9 Mozambique 14
(SADCAS) Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 04 Nov 2015
Namibia 15
Seychelles 16
Swaziland 17
Tanzania 18
Zambia 19
Zimbabwe 20
(f) Testing ISO/IEC 17025 & ISO 15189 02 Nov 2000
Coordenação Geral de Acreditação
10 Brazil 21 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 02 Nov 2000
General Coordination for Accreditation (CGCRE)
Inspection ISO/IEC 17020 27 Feb 2013
(r)
11 Canadian Association for Laboratory Accreditation Inc. (CALA) Canada 22 Testing ISO/IEC 17025 17 Nov 2005
12 Institute for Quality Management in Healthcare (IQMH) Canada 22 Testing ISO 15189 05 Dec 2012
Testing ISO/IEC 17025 & ISO 15189 02 Nov 2000
13 Standards Council of Canada (SCC) Canada 22
Testing ISO/IEC 17025 & ISO 15189 08 Oct 2010
14 Instituto Nacional de Normalización (INN) Chile 23
Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 08 Oct 2010
(b) (o) Testing ISO/IEC 17025 & ISO 15189 02 Nov 2000
China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment People’s Republic
15 24 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 02 Nov 2000
(CNAS) of China
16 Hong Kong Accreditation Service (HKAS) China, Hong Kong 25 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 02 Nov 2000
Testing ISO/IEC 17025 7 April 2014
17 Organismo Nacional de Acreditación de Colombia (ONAC) Colombia 26
Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 7 April 2014

Signing Date
Testing ISO/IEC 17025 16 Jan 2007
18 Ente Costarricense de Acreditación (ECA) Costa Rica 27 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 22 Mar 2010
Testing ISO/IEC 17025 & ISO 15189 29 Apr 2010
19 Croatian Accreditation Agency (HAA) Croatia 28 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 29 Apr 2010
Testing ISO/IEC 17025 17 Sept 2005
20 National Accreditation Body of Republica de Cuba (ONARC) Cuba 29
Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 17 Sept 2005
Cyprus Organisation for the Promotion of Quality (CYS) Cyprus
21 Cyprus 30 Inspection ISO/IEC 17020 27 Feb 2013
Accreditation Body (CYSAB)
Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 07 Aug 2014
22 Czech Accreditation Institute (CAI) Czech Republic 31 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 02 Nov 2000
23 Danish Accreditation Fund (DANAK) Denmark 32 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 02 Nov 2000
Testing ISO/IEC 17025 03 Dec 2011
24 Servicio de Acreditación Ecuatoriano (SAE) Ecuador 33 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 03 Dec 2011
Testing ISO/IEC 17025 10 Oct 2009
(x) Testing ISO 15189 02 Apr 2014
25 Egyptian Accreditation Council (EGAC) Egypt 34
Inspection ISO/IEC 17020 02 Apr 2014
26 Organismo Salvadoreño de Acreditacion (OSA) El Salvador 35 Testing ISO/IEC 17025 19 Dec 2014
(g)
27 Finnish Accreditation Service (FINAS) Finland 36 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 02 Nov 2000
28 Comite Francais d’Accreditation (COFRAC) France 37 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 02 Nov 2000
Signing Date
(w)
29 Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle GmbH (DakkS) Germany 38 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 02 Nov 2000
Testing ISO/IEC 17025 & ISO 15189 22 May 2004
(j)
30 Hellenic Accreditation System S.A. (ESYD) Greece 39 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 22 May 2004
Testing ISO/IEC 17025 & ISO 15189 26 June 2008
31 Oficina Guatemalteca de Acreditación (OGA) Guatemala 40 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 14 Mar 2012
Inspection ISO/IEC 17020 02 Apr 2013
Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 28 Apr 2010
(aa) Hungarian Accreditation Board (NAT) TERMINATED Hungary
TERMINATED 31 Dec 2015
National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories Testing ISO/IEC 17025 & ISO 15189 02 Nov 2000
32 India 41
(NABL) Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 02 Nov 2000
33 National Accreditation Board for Certification Bodies (NABCB) India 41 Inspection ISO/IEC 17020 16 Sept 2013
Testing ISO/IEC 17025 20 June 2001
Testing ISO 15189 14 Mar 2013
34 National Accreditation Body of Indonesia (KAN) Indonesia 42
Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 30 Dec 2003
(h)
35 Irish National Accreditation Board (INAB) Ireland 43 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 02 Nov 2000
36 Israel Laboratory Accreditation Authority (ISRAC) Israel 44 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 03 Nov 2001
(l)
37 L’Ente Italiano di Accreditamento (ACCREDIA) Italy 45 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 07 Oct 2010
Testing ISO/IEC 17025 31 Aug 2013
38 Jamaica National Agency for Accreditation (JANAAC) Jamaica 46
Testing ISO 15189 18 Sept 2015
Signing Date
(a) Testing ISO/IEC 17025 02 Nov 2000
39 International Accreditation Japan (IAJapan) Japan 47
40 Japan Accreditation Board (JAB) Japan 47 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 28 July 2003
41 Voluntary EMC Laboratory Accreditation Center INC (VLAC) Japan 47 Testing ISO/IEC 17025 16 Jan 2007
42 National Centre of Accreditation (NCA) Kazakhstan 48
43 Korea Laboratory Accreditation Scheme (KOLAS) Republic of Korea 49
Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 20 June 2001
(z) The Kyrgyz Testing ISO/IEC 17025 23 Oct 2013
44 The Kyrgyz Center of Accreditation (KCA) SUSPENDED 50
Republic SUSPENDED 4 Nov 2015
45 Office Luxembourgeois d’Accréditation et de Surveillance (OLAS) Luxembourg 51 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 19 Apr 2012
Testing ISO/IEC 17025 & ISO 15189 16 Jan 2003
46 Department of Standards Malaysia (Standards Malaysia) Malaysia 52 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 19 Nov 2003
Inspection ISO/IEC 17020 02 July 2015
47 entidad mexicana de acreditación a.c. (ema) Mexico 53 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 17 Nov 2005
Mongolian Agency for Standardization and Metrology, Accreditation Testing ISO/IEC 17025 07 June 2012
48 Mongolia 54
Department (MNAS) Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 07 June 2012
49 Dutch Accreditation Council (RvA) The Netherlands 55 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 02 Nov 2000
50 International Accreditation New Zealand (IANZ) New Zealand 56 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 02 Nov 2000

Signing Date
Testing ISO/IEC 17025 14 Jan 2015
51 National Accreditation Office (ONA) Nicaragua 57
Inspection ISO/IEC 17020 12 May 2016
(k)
52 Norsk Akkreditering (NA) Norway 58 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 02 Nov 2000
Testing ISO/IEC 17025 21 May 2009
53 Pakistan National Accreditation Council (PNAC) Pakistan 59
Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 21 May 2009
54 Papua New Guinea Laboratory Accreditation Scheme (PNGLAS) Papua New Guinea 60 Testing ISO/IEC 17025 12 May 2010
55 Organismo Nacional de Acreditacion (ONA) Paraguay 61 Testing ISO/IEC 17025 27 April 2012
Testing ISO/IEC 17025
15 April 2013
56 National Institute for Quality (INACAL-DA) Peru 62 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025
Inspection ISO/IEC 17020
(q) Testing ISO/IEC 17025 17 Nov 2005
57 Philippine Accreditation Bureau (PAB) Philippines 63
Testing ISO/IEC 17025 & ISO 15189 19 Jan 2005
Polish Centre for Accreditation (PCA)
58 Poland 64 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 19 Jan 2005
59 Instituto Portugues de Acreditacao (IPAC) Portugal 65 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 10 May 2006
60 Romanian Accreditation Association (RENAR) Romania 66 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 28 May 2009
Association of Analytical Centers “Analitica”
61 Russian Federation 67 Testing ISO/IEC 17025 21 May 2009
(AAC “Analitica”)
SAUDI ARABIA 68
Bahrain 69
Kuwait 70
62 GCC Accreditation Center (GAC) Oman 71 Testing ISO/IEC 17025 20 June 2016
Qatar 72
UAE 73
Yemen 74
Signing Date
63 Accreditation Body of Serbia (ATS) Serbia 75 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 24 May 2012
64 Singapore Accreditation Council (SAC) Singapore 76 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 02 Nov 2000
Testing ISO/IEC 17025 & ISO 15189 11 June 2001
65 Slovak National Accreditation Service (SNAS) Slovakia 77 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 11 June 2001
66 Slovenian Accreditation (SA) Slovenia 78 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 28 Nov 2003
67 South African National Accreditation System (SANAS) South Africa 79 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 02 Nov 2000
68 Entidad Nacional de Acreditacion (ENAC) Spain 80 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 02 Nov 2000
Testing ISO/IEC 17025 & ISO 15189 09 Dec 2009
69 Sri Lanka Accreditation Board for Conformity Assessment (SLAB) Sri Lanka 81 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 08 June 2012
Inspection ISO/IEC 17020 18 Jan 2016
Swedish Board for Accreditation and Conformity Assessment
70 Sweden 82 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 02 Nov 2000
(SWEDAC)
71 Swiss Accreditation Services (SAS) Switzerland 83
(d)
72 Taiwan Accreditation Foundation (TAF) Chinese Taipei 84 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 02 Nov 2000
Bureau of Laboratory Accreditation, Department of Science Service,
73 Thailand 85 Testing ISO/IEC 17025 23 Aug 2006
Ministry of Science and Technology (BLA-DSS)
Signing Date
(m)
85
The Bureau of Laboratory Quality Standards, Department of
74 Thailand Testing ISO/IEC 17025 & ISO 15189 04 April 2003
Medical Sciences, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand (BLQS-DMSc)
(i) (t) (y)

85 Testing ISO/IEC 17025 03 Nov 2001
National Standardization Council of Thailand – Office of the
75 Thailand Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 03 Nov 2001
National Standardization Council (NSC – ONSC)
Testing ISO/IEC 17025 19 Apr 2012
The former Testing ISO 15189 6 May 2015
The Accreditation Institute of the former Yugoslav Republic of
76 Yugoslav Republic 86
Macedonia (IARM) Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 19 Apr 2012
of Macedonia
Testing ISO/IEC 17025 02 Apr 2008
Tunisian Accreditation Council (TUNAC)
77 Tunisia 87 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 02 Apr 2008
78 Turkish Accreditation Agency (TURKAK) Turkey 88 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 10 May 2006
79 National Accreditation Agency of Ukraine (NAAU) Ukraine 89 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 24 Sept 2014
Inspection ISO/IEC 17020 11 Dec 2014
United Arab
80 Dubai Accreditation Department (DAC) 73 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 18 Oct 2009
Emirates
81 United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) United Kingdom 90 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 02 Nov 2000
82 American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA) USA 91 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 02 Nov 2000
83 (s)
ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board (ANAB) USA 91 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 14 Sept 2006
Inspection ISO/IEC 17020 05 Dec 2012
Signing Date
84 AIHA Laboratory Accreditation Program, LLC (AIHA-LAP, LLC) USA 91 Testing ISO/IEC 17025 22 Aug 2010
American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors/Laboratory
85 USA 91 Testing ISO/IEC 17025 07 April 2009
Accreditation Board (ASCLD/LAB)
86 (c)
International Accreditation Service, Inc (IAS) USA 91 Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 09 May 2005
Accreditation Services Bureau (A-S-B) Testing ISO/IEC 17025 06 Dec 2007
87 USA 91
dba Laboratory Accreditation Bureau (L-A-B) Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 06 Dec 2007
88 National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) USA 91
Testing ISO/IEC 17025 06 June 2008
89 Perry Johnson Laboratory Accreditation, Inc. (PJLA) USA 91
Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 21 May 2009
90 Organismo Uruguayo De Acreditación (OUA) Uruguay 92
Calibration ISO/IEC 17025 9 April 2015
(n) Testing ISO 15189 05 Dec 2012
91 Bureau of Accreditation (BoA) Vietnam 93

(a) IAJapan was formed from a restructure of JCSS and JNLA on 1 April 2002.
(b) CNAL was formed from a restructure of CCIBLAC and CNACL on 20 Feb 2003
(c) IAS was formed from a restructure of ICBO on 1 Dec 2002
(d) TAF was formed from a restructure of CNLA on 16 April 2005
(e) BELTEST and BKO/OBE originally signed the MRA
(f) Diretoria de Credenciamento e Qualidade/Instituto Nacional de Metrologia, Normalizacao e Qualidade Industrial (INMETRO) originally signed the MRA
(g) FINAS, Finnish Accreditation Service Centre for Metrology and Accreditation originally signed the MRA. Their name changed to Finnish Accreditation Service (FINAS)
(h) The Irish National Accreditation Board (NAB) originally signed the MRA. NAB changed their name to Irish
National Accreditation Board (INAB)
(i) Thai Laboratory Accreditation Scheme (TLAS) originally signed the MRA. TLAS changed their name to TISI
(j) Hellenic Accreditation Council originally signed the MRA. Hellenic Accreditation Council changed their
name to Hellenic Accreditation System S.A. (ESYD)
(k) Norwegian Accreditation originally signed the MRA. Norwegian Accreditation changed their name to Norsk
Akkreditering (NA)
(l) Sistema Nazionale per l’Accreditamento originally signed the MRA. Sistema Nazionale per l’Accreditamneto
changed their name to Sistema Nazionale per l’Accreditamneto di Laboratori (SINAL).
ACCREDIA was formed as a result of the incorporation of SINAL and SINCERT and was accepted as signatory to the EA MLA on 29 May 2009 for testing only.
SIT (original signing date – 9 April 2003 for calibration only) was incorporated into COPA. EA MLA signatory status was transferred to COPA on 4 November 2009.
Signatory status of COPA to the ILAC MRA was withdrawn effective 21 May 2010 as a result of the termination of COPA’s membership in EA as per EA Resolution 2010
(25) 3.
ACCREDIA assumed the responsibilities for the accreditation of calibration laboratories in Italy from July 2010 as
COPA was no longer operational. ACCREDIA was accepted as a signatory to the EA MLA for calibration on 7
October 2010.
(m) Bureau of Laboratory Quality Standards (BLQS) Department of Medical Sciences (DMSc) originally signed the MRA. Their name changed to The Bureau of Laboratory
Quality Standards, Department of Medical Sciences, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand (BLQS-DMSc)
(n) Vietnam Laboratory Accreditation Scheme (VILAS/STAMEQ) originally signed the MRA. Their name changed to
Bureau of Accreditation (BoA)
(o) CNAS was formed from the merger of CNAL and CNAB
(p) BELTEST and BKO/OBE ceased to exist on 1 August 2006
(q) PAO was reinstated as a signatory by the APLAC MRA Council for testing and calibration on 10 December 2008. This follows the suspension as a result of the Resolution
of the APLAC MRA Council on 5 June 2008 whereby the signatory status for calibration and testing for PAO was suspended.
(r) Canadian Association for Environmental Analytical Laboratories (CAEAL) originally signed the MRA. CAEAL changed its name to Canadian Association for Laboratory
Accreditation Inc. (CALA) on 23 June 2008
(s) Assured Calibration and Laboratory Accreditation Select Services was acquired by ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board and are now know as ANSI-ASQ National
Accreditation Board doing business as ACLASS as of 18 September 08. As of 1 January 2012, ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board acquired Forensic Quality Services
(FQS) a signatory to the ILAC MRA for testing since 10 December 2010 and are now known as ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board doing business as FQS. As of
30.01.15, ACLASS/FQS moved to the single branding of ANAB.
(t) TLAS changed their name to National Standardization Council of Thailand – Office of the National Accreditation Council on 29 January 2009.
(w) DakkS was formed from a merger of DGA and DKD in December 2009.
DGA was formed from a merger of Deutsches Akkreditierungssytem Prufwesen (DAP), Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle (DACH), and Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle
Technik in Trägergemeinschaft für Akkreditierung German Association for Accreditation GmbH (DATech in TGA GmbH).
(x) National Laboratories Accreditation Bureau (NLAB) merged into EGAC as of 28 December 2009.
(y) National Standardization Council of Thailand - Office of the National Accreditation Council (NSC-ONAC) changed their name to National Standardization Council of
Thailand - Office of the National Standardization Council (NSC-ONSC) on 27 March 2014.
(z) The signatory status of KCA to the ILAC MRA for the accreditation of testing laboratories using ISO/IEC 17025 was suspended on 4 November 2015 as per the ILAC
Arrangement Council decision at the 15th Meeting held on 4 November 2015.
(aa) Activities terminated on 31st December 2015

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