About BSCA

Clause 2, Chapter 1 of Accreditation Rules, approved by the Resolution of the State Committee for Standardization of the Republic of Belarus of May 31, 2011 No. 27 (amended by Gosstandart Resolutions of June 26, 2019 No. 39 and of December 22, 2020 No. 102) states:

“Within the National Accreditation System of the Republic of Belarus (hereinafter, unless otherwise established, the National Accreditation System), accreditation shall be carried out by the accreditation body - the republican unitary enterprise "Belarusian State Centre for Accreditation”, which is subordinate to the State Committee for Standardization”.’

State Enterprise "BSCA" performs accreditation of legal entities of the Republic of Belarus or foreign legal entities who have expressed a desire to get confirmation of their competence when performing conformity assessment, testing, examination and (or) measurements, proficiency testing, inspection, as well as accreditation of legal entities of the Republic of Belarus and individual entrepreneurs that perform verification and (or) calibration.

In accordance with the Law of the Republic of Belarus N 437-Z of October 24, 2016 “On assessment for compliance with technical requirements and on accreditation of conformity assessment bodies”, the accreditation body performs the following functions:

carries out accreditation, re-accreditation and, if the accreditation results are positive, issues accreditation certificates to applicants for accreditation;
makes changes and (or) amendments to accreditation certificates, issues their duplicates at the request of accredited entities;
conducts surveillance assessments;
cancels issued accreditation certificates at the initiative of accredited entities or suspends, renews or cancels issued accreditation certificates pursuant to paragraph 7 of Article 55 and Article 56 of the Law of the Republic of Belarus N 437-З of October 24, 2016 “On assessment for compliance with technical requirements and on accreditation of conformity assessment bodies”;
provides applicants for accreditation with the information on accreditation procedures;
in case of negative accreditation results, notifies applicants for accreditation on the decisions to refuse the issue of accreditation certificates within three days from the decision date by sending the copies of the decisions;
notifies accredited entities on AB’s decisions on amendments and (or) additions to accreditation certificates, suspension, renewal, or cancellation of their validity;
keeps records of issued accreditation certificates and accredited entities through developing and maintening the register of the National Accreditation System of the Republic of Belarus in accordance with the Rules for maintaining the register of the National Accreditation System of the Republic of Belarus;
forms and maintains the national part of the Unified Register of Conformity Assessment Bodies as established by the legislation of the Eurasian Economic Union;
determines the procedure for maintaining the register of accreditation experts and the register of technical experts on accreditation, forms and maintains these registers;
submits information and documents related to accreditation and listed in the Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union into the integrated information system of the Eurasian Economic Union;
makes decisions on appeals received from accredited entities to review decisions made by the accreditation body in relation to these accredited entities (decisions on appeals), and on complaints received from any person referring the actions (inaction) of accredited entities or the accreditation body;
within the competence, checks the facts set out in the applications from citizens, individual entrepreneurs and legal entities referring accredited entities, in order to decide whether the surveillance assessment to determine the validity of such appeals is needed;
when receiving the application from a foreign legal entity registered in a member state of the Eurasian Economic Union, informs the accreditation body of the concerned member state of the Eurasian Economic Union about the application, if the required (requested) scope of accreditation includes technical regulations of the Eurasian Economic Union.

More details on the powers, rights and responsibilities of the accreditation body are set out in Chapter 2 of Accreditation Rules, approved by the Resolution of the State Committee for Standardization of the Republic of Belarus of May 31, 2011 No. 27.

BSCA carries out works related only to accreditation and does not provide consulting services to conformity assessment bodies.

BSCA activity is financed from its own funds. The cost of accreditation work is calculated based on the time rates set for various types of accreditation work. To roughly calculate the cost of accreditation work, the applicant for accreditation can use special tools (section "Accreditation" - "Work cost calculation").

Accreditation work is carried out by BSCA based on applications from applicants for accreditation and from accredited entities by conducting civil contracts with them. All costs for activities related to accreditation procedures are borne by the applicant for accreditation and the accredited entity.