APAC's 2025 Annual Meeting will take place from 21-28 June 2025 in Bengaluru, India, kindly hosted by the Indian National Accreditation Board for Certification Bodies (NABCB) and the National Accreditation Board for Testing & Calibration Laboratories (NABL). This event is for APAC Members and Affiliates...
This in-person 3-day training course is covers accredition of anti-bribery management system (ABMS) certification bodies. The training course is kindly hosted by the Mongolian National Authority for Accreditation (MNAS). This course specifically focuses on accreditation of certification bodies using ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015 Conformity assessment — Requirements...
This in-person 3-day training course is on the use of the new edition of ISO/IEC 17020 Conformity Assessment - Requirements for boies poerforming inspection to accredit inspection bodies. Note the training course may be using the ISO/IEC FDIS 17020 version of the revised standard. The...
This in-person 3-day training course covers the use of ISO 14019 Sustainability information — Part 4: Principles and requirements for bodies validating and verifying sustainability information to accredit bodies that validate and/or verify sustainability information, including ESG reporting, declarations and disclosures. This APAC training courses...
APAC has released a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a consultant to help prepare the APAC Strategic Plan 2027-2030. Responses are to be sent to the APAC Secretariat, secretariat@apac-accreditation.org, no later than 15 May 2025, Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST). If you have any questions...
APAC Nominated Evaluator Training and an APAC Lead Evaluator Workshop was held in Shanghai from 24-27 February 2025. These events were kindly hosted by the China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment (CNAS), and brought together experts, leaders, and practitioners from across the Asia-Pacific region...
An updated APAC MRA in Numbers infographic has been published showing the count of accredited scopes by APAC Members as at 30 September 2024.
The APAC Communications and Promotion Committee (CPC) Communications Working Group (CommsWG) and APAC Technical Committee 1 Proficiency Testing Subcommittee (PTSC) have produced a new brochure promoting the benefits and use of accredited proficiency testing.
Over 200 delegates attended the 2024 APAC Annual Meeting that was kindly hosted by GAC, EIAC and ENAS in Dubai from 13-19 July 2024. APAC congratulates the inaugural APAC Award recipients:APAC Life-Time Achievement Award2024: Mr. Yoshinobu Uematsu APAC Technical Excellence Award2024: Mr. Mohan Sabaratnam APAC...
APAC has created its third blog which is an interview with Mr. Trace McInturff, APAC MRA Council Chair and A2LA Vice President, Accreditation Services. Trace answers questions on accreditation and artificial intelligence. To read this interesting interview please follow this link.
An updated APAC MRA in Numbers infographic has been published showing the count of accredited scopes by APAC Members as at 30 September 2023.
9 June 2024 is World Accreditation Day. The APAC Chair, Ms. Jennfer Evans, and APAC Vice Chair, Mr. Raj Nathan, have recorded the following messages to celebrate this occassion:
APAC have produced a new video on accredited product certification:
The APAC Communications Working Group have recently completed several new and updated communciations to explain and promote APAC. For further information please see the APAC COM series publication page.