TS EN ISO/IEC 17011

TS EN ISO/IEC 17011 is the Turkish adoption of the standard that sets general requirements for accreditation bodies that accredit conformity assessment bodies. It focuses on how an accreditation body organises assessment and accreditation activities, and it also serves as an appropriate basis for peer evaluation within mutual recognition arrangements. The central concern is the credibility of accreditation as a structured system for demonstrating competence and consistency.

How accreditation relates to conformity assessment

Conformity assessment bodies may provide testing, inspection, management system certification, personnel certification, product certification and, in the context of this standard, calibration services. An accreditation body is the higher-level body that evaluates the technical competence, impartiality and organisational reliability of those providers. That distinction matters because the standard is about the competence of the organisations performing conformity assessment, rather than about the direct assessment of a product, service or system itself.

What the scope means in practice

In general technical terms, accreditation is used to strengthen confidence in the results issued by laboratories and certification or inspection bodies, while supporting comparability and international recognition across different bodies. This record represents an ISO/IEC 17011:2004-based standard and, according to the supplied status information, it was withdrawn in 2018; even so, it remains important for understanding the foundational terminology and institutional framework of accreditation systems.