Accreditation Council

Every day we board the train, car or lift. We drink water from the tap, eat what the supermarket offers us and receive diagnostics from the hospital laboratory. Citizens and companies want to be able to blindly trust the quality and safety of these products and services.

To ensure this trust, the quality and safety of products and services is tested. This is done by companies and institutions that test, inspect, certify, verify and calibrate. They check whether products and services meet the agreed standard, such as the global ISO or Dutch NEN standards.

As supervisor, the Dutch Accreditation Council (RvA) checks annually whether these companies and institutions that test, inspect and certify do their job properly. The RvA checks whether they are competent, consistent in their business practices and can reach an impartial opinion. With an accreditation statement, the RvA expresses its confidence.

The Accreditation Council does not use algorithms. If the Accreditation Council does decide to use algorithms in the future, the Accreditation Council will report this in the Algorithm Register on algoritmes.overheid.nl.

The Accreditation Council is an independent private foundation; designated as a national accreditation body by the Dutch government in 2010 on the basis of European Regulation 765/2008. The RvA is a ZBO of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and operates on a non-profit basis.