What is the difference between a certification body with a international accreditation and one with a national accreditation?
It is absolutely necessary that a certification body be accredited by a recognised accreditation agency with a good reputation – if not, the issued certificate may not have an important value to the beneficiary and the investment is not justified. The accreditation bodies should be signatories to the international agreement MLA. The certificates issued by the certification bodies accredited by an accreditation body signatory to the MLA agreement, as it is the case of SIMTEX-OC, have both international and national recognition. When certification bodies are accredited by an accreditation body, which is not a signatory of the MLA agreement, the certificates only have national recognition.
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