ILAC/NACLA REPORT

摘要

I attended the ILAC Laboratory Committee meeting in Madrid in May and the ILAC Executive meetings in Helsinki in June. The issue of ISO 9001 registrars not requiring the use of accredited calibration laboratories for establishing traceability was discussed by the LC. This has been a problem for some time and the issue will be taken to the International Accreditation Forum (1AF) via the 1LAC/IAF Joint Committee for Closer Cooperation (JCCC). (Since the Madrid meeting, the issue was presented to IAF in Helsinki at the JCCC and they will look into the problem with their accredited certification bodies). The revision of Q21 "Cross Frontier Accreditation - Principles for Avoiding Duplication"' was discussed in the LC. This ongoing debate in ILAC is of concern to the laboratory community, as there are those, particularly in Europe, who would remove any competition whatsoever between accrediting bodies and leave laboratories with no choice for the services they need. As reported before, the current G21, which is meant to only provide guidance, discourages cross border activities but cannot prevent them. If a laboratory requests accreditation services outside its national borders, the external AB, if it knows there is an internal AB within the requestor's economy, is required to point this out and if they do carry out the work invites the internal AB to join them on the assessment.