EU Regulation 765/08 on Accreditation and Market Surveillance
On 9 July 2008 the EU Parliament and the Council of the European Union adopted the EU Regulation 765/08 on Accreditation and Market Surveillance.
With effect from 1 January 2010, the EU Regulation will for the first time establish a legal framework for the provision of accreditation services across Europe. The Regulation lays down rules on the organisation and operation of accreditation of conformity assessment bodies in both the voluntary and regulated sectors.
Article 4(1) of Regulation 765/08 required that BIS appoint a single National Accreditation Body (NAB) for the United Kingdom. The Accreditation Regulations 2009 (Statutory Instrument 2009 No. 3155), laid in Parliament on 3 December 2009, appointed the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) as the UK’s NAB.
The SI and Explanatory Memorandum are is available from the OPSI website:
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2009/pdf/uksi_20093155_en.pdf
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2009/em/uksiem_20093155_en.pdf
In support of this Statutory Instrument, BIS has signed, on 8 December 2009, a revised Memorandum of Understanding with UKAS. This is available to download in PDF format from "Related Publications".
Material relating to implementation of the Regulation in the UK is kept for reference, for the time being, and available from our page "Implementation of EU Regulation 765/08 on Accreditation and Market Surveillance in the United Kingdom"
