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Norwegian Accreditation (NA) is the only Norwegian body for accreditation of laboratories, certification bodies, inspection bodies, notified bodies, environmental verifiers and attestation bodies. NA is also the Norwegian monitoring unit for Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) inspections in all areas, according to OECD's principles.
NA is the norwegian signatar to the EA mulitlateral agreements on accreditation (MLA). Through this MLA we are also signatars to the ILAC and IAF multilateral agreements.
Norwegian Accreditation (NA) is managed by director general Torleif M. Hauge.NA is structured as a project organization, where accreditation projects and assessments are led by one of its employees. In addition, approximately 150 specialists from around 10 countries are consulted during the assessment work.
Norwegian Accreditation (NA) has technical specialists with high levels of education and long experience. The core-processes are managed by chief-engineers and senior-engineers and include doctor's degrees in organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry and microbiology. Norwegian Accreditation has solid experience with development projects and accreditations abroad.
In response to new regulations on accreditation in the EU, Norwegian Accreditation has published a brochure aiming to explain accreditation for government and other interested audiences. The brochure is available in PDF here . Norwegian version here