Conformity assessment — Requirements for accreditation bodies accrediting conformity assessment bodies and relevant IAF policy and mandatory documents and ILAC policy documents. The facilitators will provide insights on how accreditation body requirements can be demonstrated in various ways and participants will be encouraged to share their...

This is an introductory to intermediate level training course for accreditation managers and assessment personnel of APAC Members and APAC Evaluators. It will cover the use of the new edition of ISO 15189 Medical laboratories — Requirements for quality and competence to accredit medical testing...

This training course will take place on 8-10 March 2023 and is for APAC Member personnel and APAC Evaluators. The training course is kindly hosted by the National Bureau of Agricultural Commodity and Food Standards (ACFS), Thailand. The event is about the use of ISO...

This training course will take place on 11-12 March 2023 at the Holiday Inn Singapore Atrium Hotel and is for APAC Nominated Evaluators. It will cover how APAC evaluations are conducted in accordance with the APAC MRA procedures and relevant IAF/ILAC requirements. Satisfactory completion of...

This workshop will take place on 13-14 March 2023 at the Holiday Inn Singapore Atrium Hotel and is for all APAC Lead Evaluators, and for APAC Evaluators that have been recommended to become Lead Evaluators. Because APAC has not had the opportunity to gather Lead...

This training event will take place from 19 to 21 April 2023 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and is for personnel of APAC Members and APAC Evaluators. The event is kindly hosted by the Center for Accreditation (O’ZAKK), Uzbekistan. The event will cover the use of the...

This training event will take place on 15-16 May 2023 in Islamabad, Pakistan, and is for personnel of APAC Members and APAC Evaluators. The event is kindly hosted by the Pakistan National Accreditation Council (PNAC). The event will cover technical writing for policies, procedures and...

This training event will take place on 17-19 May 2023 in Islamabad, Pakistan, and is for personnel of APAC Members and APAC Evaluators. The event is kindly hosted by the Pakistan National Accreditation Council (PNAC). The event will cover the use of ISO/IEC 17065:2012 Conformity...

APAC's 2023 Annual Meeting will take place between 23 June and 1 July 2023 at the JW Marriott Anaheim Resort, in Anaheim, California. The Annual Meetings are kindly hosted by APAC's Full Members in the United States of Amercia (A2LA, AIHA LAP, ANAB, IAS, IOAS,...

The 2023 APAC Annual Meeting will take place from 23 June to 1 July 2023 at the JW Marriott Anaheim Resort in Anaheim, California. The Annual Meeting is being hosted by APAC's Full Members from the United States of America. All APAC Members and Affiliates...

Interview with Jennifer Evans, APAC Chair and CEO, NATA APAC is the regional accreditation cooperation for the Asia Pacific region with a purpose to manage and expand a mutual recognition arrangement (MRA) among accreditation bodies in the Asia Pacific region thereby facilitating the acceptance of...

9 June 2022 marks World Accreditation Day (#WAD2022), a global initiative established by IAF and ILAC to promote the value of accreditation. This year’s theme is Accreditation: Sustainability in Economic Growth and the Environment. A joint statement by the IAF and ILAC Chairs, and brochure...

The APAC Communications and Promotion Committee (CPC) have recently completed several new and updated materials to explain and promote APAC. For further information please see the APAC COM series publication page.