Not UKAS accredited?
UKAS is the national signatory, along with other nationally recognised accreditation bodies world-wide, to multilateral agreements for the purposes of mutual recognition through the European Co-operation for Accreditation (EA), the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and the International Laboratory Accreditation Co-operation (ILAC). Those bodies that are signatory to these agreements are deemed to be equivalent having undergone stringent peer evaluations. EA, IAF and ILAC have websites that give information about their organisations and details of the bodies that are signatory to their agreements: http://www.european-accreditation.org/ ; http://www.iaf.nu/ ; http://www.ilac.org/ If you have a certificate from a body which is not UKAS accredited but is accredited by another Accreditation Body, then you may wish to check to see if it is a signatory to one of the above multi-lateral agreements. If it is, then the certificate you have is deemed equivalent to one issued by an UKAS-accr
