Institutions accredited in the area of industrial energy audits

The Latvian National Accreditation Bureau informs, that accreditation in the regulated scope of industrial energy audits according to the Cabinet of Ministers Regulations No. 138 “Regulations Regarding Industrial Energy Audit” of 12 March 2013 is granted to LLC “TUV NORD Baltik”, LLC “LBRA”, JSC “Inspecta Latvia” and LLC “CMB”.

04.01.2016

LATAK documents have been changed

LATAK informs that changes have been made to following LATAK documents:

• LATAK D.008-14/06.2015 „Accreditation procedures” (added one clause and amended the definition of nonconformity);
• LATAK D.045-02/06.2015 „Accreditation of Conformity assessment bodies for notification purpose” (added reference to a new regulation, removed additional accreditation application form);
• LATAK D.007-08/01.2015 „Proficiency testing in Latvian National accreditation system” (added ILAC-P9:06/2014 requirements, proficiency testing requirements attributed to inspection institutions where applicable);
• LATAK D.030-14/06.2015 „LATAK accreditation criteria and list of mandatory documents” (updated documents including ILAC-P15:06/2014 and IAF MD 9:2015).

Documents LATAK D.008-14/06.2015, LATAK D.045-02/06.2015 and LATAK D.030-14/06.2015 are available on page ‘Documents’ – ‘General documents’.

The document LATAK D.007-08/01.2015 is available on page ‘Documents’ – ‘Testing and calibration laboratories’ and/or ‘Medical laboratories’.

Date of publishing: 29.06.2015

The popular standards ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 are updated

On 15 September of this year, the updated environmental management system standard ISO 14001 will come into force, whereas the new quality management system standard ISO 9001 will become effective one week later, on 23 September. ISO 9001:2015, which is the most popular quality management standard in Latvia and worldwide, certifies to customers, that a company cares for constant quality of its products or services. Several significant changes are integrated in the updated standard, including risk approach in formation and development of quality management system, identification of opinions of interested parties, involvement of senior management, so that the standard is easier to use in service industry companies, etc.

The main difference is greater focus on management processes and less documentation. It is planned, that the new standard will not contain references to documented procedures and notes, instead focusing on information to be documented, thereby allowing an organization to choose the most suitable method for documentation of quality management system.

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Pilot project of accreditation time schedule

LATAK works actively on improvements of accreditation procedures. One of the planned innovations is an accreditation time schedule, which is currently specified in the framework of pilot project. LATAK does not want to cause additional burden to conformity assessment bodies – entrepreneurs; therefore, LATAK timely informs about planned changes in the terms of examination of accreditation applications.

LATAK informs, that this is a pilot project, so the terms in the accreditation time schedule are only indicative and are subject to changes until 1 October 2015. LATAK indicates, that the planned changes will not influence cooperation activities between LATAK and conformity assessment bodies, compared to the existing procedures. Only the terms of separate stages of accreditation process are specified, thus ensuring transparency and integrity during the accreditation process.
More significant changes are planned in a period of one or one and a half years, when LATAK will have integrated an informative support system, ensuring information exchange between LATAK and conformity assessment bodies through the electronic environment.

15.06.2015