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Accreditation

Accreditation is the formal recognition by an authorized body.

that a testing laboratory is competent to perform certain tests or
that a certification or inspection body is authorized to certify certain products, services etc.

This means that laboratories, certification and inspection bodies are assessed and audited at regular intervals by a third party as to their technical competence against published technical criteria.

To make international recognition of certificates possible, testing and certification institutions must be qualified to an equal standard and operate according to comparable principles. These requirements are compiled in the EN 45000 series of standards. They set criteria for the evaluation of bodies that carry out certification of products, quality systems, services and personnel, and of testing laboratories. These standards can be applied in both the regulated and the non-regulated sector.

National accreditation bodies are responsible for establishing, formally recognizing, officially notifying and carrying out surveillance of the qualifications of testing and certification bodies.

TÜV Rheinland Japan Ltd. laboratories in Osaka and Yokohama have been assessed and accredited by various institutions for numerous fields, the most important of which are listed below.

JNLA
- Japan National Laboratory Accreditation

JAB
- The Japan Accreditation Board for Conformity Assessment

DAR
- Safety Of Electrical Appliances, Telecommunications.

GOST
- Certification For The Russian Market.

CB
- TÜV Rheinland Japan Ltd. is a National Certification Body for Japan.Our laboratories in Yokohama and Osaka are CB Testing Laboratories.

German Product Safety Law
- GS Mark

Partnership with FIMKO
- Nordic Certificates

NATA (Australia)
- Testing and issue of endorsed test reports for Australia in the area of Safety and Telecommunications.

JATE
- Japan's telecommunications testing for Japan (analog and digital)

JIPDE (Japan Information Processing Development and Corporation)
- Conformity assessment for ISMS (Information Security Management Systems)

DAR (Deutscher Akkreditierungs Rat, German Accreditation Council

This is the German national certification body. It coordinates the activities of all bodies involved in accreditation work in Germany and maintains an accreditation register. It is supported by the Federal Ministry of Economics, the Federal Ministry of Labour and the German Institute for Standardization DIN.

DAP (Deutsches Akkreditierungssystem Prüfwesen), DATech (Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle für Technik e.V.), DEKITZ (Deutsche Koordinierungsstelle für IT-Normenkonformitätsprüfung und Zertifizierung) and others are members of this council.

TÜV Rheinland Japan Ltd.'s Osaka and Yokohama Laboratories have been assessed and accredited by DATech in the field of "Safety of electrical appliances" with a broad scope including IEC/EN 65950, IEC/EN 60065, IEC/EN 61010, IEC/EN 60335, IEC/EN 60742, IEC/ EN 60204 and more.

GOST (R), Gosstandart

Certification bodies within Russia do not accept testing to European EN standards as part of a certification application. Only test results to GOST and GOST R standards from a laboratory accredited by Gosstandart are accepted as part of the certification application. TÜV Rheinland Japan Ltd.'s Osaka and Yokohama Laboratories have been assessed and accredited by Gosstandart, hence test data and reports obtained from these laboratories can be utilized in the application and certification process regarding GOST R for entry into the Russian market.

CB

TÜV Rheinland Japan Ltd. is a National Certification Body for Japan under the CB IECEE scheme. For more detailed information on the CB scheme, please click here.

German Product Safety Law

TÜV Rheinland Product Safety GmbH is accredited by ZLS for testing and certifying a very wide range of products according to the German Product Safety Law. Based on this accreditation we can issue the German GS-Mark. The product ranges covered includes, among many others:

Household Equipment
Information Technology Equipment
Tools
Lamps and Luminaries
Machinery
Toys

European Directives, CE-Marking

In order to assist you most efficiently with all compliance issues related to European regulations, TÜV Rheinland Secure IT GmbH is also accredited notified/competent body for testing and certification of products and/or systems according to these (and some more) European Directives:

Medical Products (93/42/EEC) (ZLS accreditation)
Active Implants (90/385/EEC) (ZLS accreditation)
EMC (89/336/EEC) (ZLS accreditation)
Machinery (89/392/EEC) (ZLS accreditation)
Low Voltage Equipment (72/23/EEC) (ZLS accreditation)
Personal Protection Equipment (89/686/EEC) (ZLS accreditation)
Toys (88/378/EEC) (ZLS accreditation)
Telecommunication Equipment (91/363/EED) (BAPT/BMPT accreditation)

Ergonomics

The widespread use of Information Technology Equipment and Machinery in the working world makes this topic more and more important. The target Reduction of occupational related injuries and diseases. As such TÜV Rheinland Secure iT GmbH was granted accreditation for testing and certification of Ergonomics for Hard- and Software by DATech.

Partnership with FIMKO

TÜV Rheinland Japan Ltd. can provide Nordic Certification Services through an agreement of partnership with FIMKO, Finland's leading testing, certification and calibration company. FIMKO has authorized TÜV Rheinland Japan Ltd.'s Osaka and Yokohama laboratories to test on its behalf electrical equipment according to the EN 60065, EN 60335, EN 60742, EN 60950 and EN 61010 standards. FIMKO has assessed our laboratories and confirms that they fulfil the essential requirements of EN 45001.

Medical Accreditations

If you require European quality systems certification in a regulated industry (medical, in vitro diagnostic, etc.) for CE Marking, it may not be sufficient to select a registrar claiming to be "a notified body." For example, there are over 40 registrars/Notified Bodies for the European Medical Devices Directive. However, less than half are notified for an Annex III Type Examination for an active medical device. Also, a Notified Body for one EU Directive is not necessarily notified for other related directives. Less than a quarter of the Notified Bodies for the MDD are also notified for the IVD Directive. TÜV Rheinland Product Safety GmbH is a Notified Body, accredited by the ZLG/ZLS for all three medical directives: AIMD, MDD and IVDD, and one of the few able to offer all of the services required:

Product testing
Quality management system assessment
Type examination certificate issue
Technical file and design dossier evaluation
Surveillance of product and quality management system
Identification of standards