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Accreditation Body

What is Accreditation Body?

An organization that evaluates and confirms the competence of certification bodies, laboratories, and inspection bodies to perform specific conformity assessments.

Compliance and Regulatory

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as accreditation body. The number is how many controls name both.

What the standards actually require on accreditation body

Requirements naming accreditation body across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.

The national accreditation body designated under Regulation (EC) 765/2008 is competent to accredit certification bodies under GDPR Art. 43(1).

HR-GDPR-Art.5 · National Accreditation Body for Certification →

Beyond ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015, 9.1.4, the body allows auditors enough time for every activity of initial audits, surveillance and re-certification, counts the time for writing the audit report in the audit time, and determines audit time with the normative Annex...

iso-iec-27006-1-2024::9.1.4 · Determining audit time →

Suppliers of automotive products and services are required to build, apply and improve a QMS certified to ISO 9001, unless the customer authorizes something else, with certification to IATF 16949 as the end goal.

iatf-16949-2016-quality-management-system-for-automotive-production::8.4.2.3 · 8.4.2.3 Supplier quality management system development →

A body conducting STAR Certification must be a CSA corporate member in good standing, accredited to ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015 by an IAF member accreditation body for ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, and must follow CSA's requirements together with ISO/IEC 17021-1...

csa-star-security-trust-assurance-and-risk::L2-CB · Engage a certification body and auditors that meet the STAR certification body requirements →
DORA1 control

Entities required to perform TLPT use only testers that are highly suitable and reputable, have the technical and organisational capability and specific expertise in threat intelligence, penetration and red team testing, hold certification from a Member State...

DORA-Art.27 · Requirements for testers for the carrying out of TLPT →

A provider of digital verification services (services provided over the internet, at an individual's request, that ascertain or verify a fact about the individual from information not supplied by the individual and confirm it to another person) is registered o...

data-use-and-access-act-2025::s.33-39 · Sections 33 to 39: Registration on the DVS register →

Questions people ask about accreditation body

What is Accreditation Body?
An organization that evaluates and confirms the competence of certification bodies, laboratories, and inspection bodies to perform specific conformity assessments.
Why is Accreditation Body important for compliance?
Accreditation Body is a key concept in Compliance and Regulatory. Understanding accreditation body helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 1,016 frameworks with 316K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Accreditation Body?
Accreditation Body appears in the requirement text of Act on the Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (OG 42/2018), ISO/IEC 27006-1:2024, IATF 16949:2016 - Quality Management System for Automotive Production, CSA STAR (Security, Trust, Assurance, and Risk), DORA. Across these standards we have identified 9 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Accreditation Body?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how accreditation body applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 1,016 frameworks.

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