The Russian Accreditation Authority (Federal Service for Accreditation—RusAccreditation) has inspected the activities of Russian certification bodies, organizations, and testing laboratories for possible violations.

For the last two months—September and October 2019—RusAccreditation conducted 295 inspections.

The inspections were made to:

• Eliminate non-compliance with accreditation criteria  
• Assess the implementation of previously issued injunctions  
• Reveal possible violations by accredited individuals

As a result of the inspection of certification authorities:

• 13 accreditation authorities received temporary injunctions in order to fix violations  
• 11 accreditation authorities were suspended (including 6 test laboratories and 5 organization ensuring measurement traceability)  
• 36 judicial acts were issued to violators  
• 24 accreditations of organizations were terminated.

The following 12 accreditation bodies were closed due the non-elimination of inconsistencies in the accreditation criteria revealed during the procedure for the confirmation of competence:

• Five test laboratories:

«Cuban’energo», PJSC  – RA.RU.22АЭ91

«ECO MIR», LLC  – РОСС RU.0001.22ГА16

«IGKTU», Fgbou Vpo – РОСС RU.0001.21МЛ37

«NIINM», JSC – RA.RU.22ЛТ51

«Ap Kvark», LLC – RA.RU.21АЕ91

• Four certification bodies:

«MNITI-CERTIFICA», NPO – RA.RU.11МЕ61

«Tsentr promyshlennoy ekspertizy», LLC – RA.RU.12МД08

«OCS», LLC  – RA.RU.11НА40

«Test Service», LLC – RA.RU.11АБ79

• Three organizations ensuring measurement traceability:  

«ISL and Metrologiya», LLC – РОСС RU.0001.310332

Zhuravliov Alexandr Alexandrovich, sole trader  – RA.RU.320043

«METR-EK», LLC – RA.RU.312402

The following 3 accreditation bodies were closed due the announced on-site audit avoidance:

• Two certification bodies:

«Standarty and Sootvetstvie», LLC – RA.RU.11БЕ01

«Pro-Expert», LLC – RA.RU.11ГЧ02

• One organization ensuring measurement traceability:  

«IT «Test-Pribor», CJSC – RA.RU.312415

The original source in Russian is available here.

RusAccreditation together with the Russian supervision authorities will continue to conduct serious work to prevent the flow of potentially hazardous products into the Russian market circulation along with the elimination of dishonest participants.

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