Contact details of the Accreditation Bodies and Regional Accreditation Groups which are signatories to the MLA are listed here.
Contact details of the Accreditation Bodies and Regional Accreditation Groups which are signatories to the MLA are listed here.
Currently there are five main scopes for the IAF MLA: Management Systems Certification, Product Certification, Certification of Persons, Greenhouse Gas Validation and Verification, and Validation and Verification.
A main scope means certificates are ‘equally reliable’ because the conformity assessment bodies conform to the same standard. The combination of a Level 2 activity and the Level 3 relevant normative document is called a main scope of the MLA.
A sub-scope means the certificates are ‘equivalent’ because the management systems, products, services or persons conform to the same standard.
Sub-scopes are divided into two categories (Level 4 and Level 5), as described in section 2 of IAF PL3: Policies and Procedures on the IAF MLA Structure and for Expansion of the Scope of the IAF MLA.