About Centre
The formation of the National Accreditation System in the Republic of Belarus started in 1992. The state standards of the Republic of Belarus were developed on the basis of EN 45000 series and ISO/IEC Guides. Thereby the principles of the National Accreditation System of the Republic of Belarus were harmonized with the international requirements.
Before 2010 accreditation was performed by several accreditation bodies. In 2010 they were merged into one legal entity – thus, the Republican Unitary Enterprise “Belarusian State Centre for Accreditation” was established as the sole accreditation body of the Republic of Belarus. There was a transition period within which BSCA accreditation rules and procedures were brought into compliance with EA requirements.
A new legislative act “Accreditation Rules” was adopted and registered in the National Register of Legal Acts of the Republic of Belarus (N 8/24689 of 12 January 2012), as amended by the Resolution of the State Committee for Standardization of the Republic of Belarus of June 19, 2017 No. 49 and Resolution of the State Committee for Standardization of the Republic of Belarus of 26 June 2019 No 39 (National Register of Legal acts of the Republic of Belarus - N 8/34538 of 4 September 2019) . This legal act states fields of activities of the accreditation body, lays down its powers and responsibilities and sets rights and obligations of accredited CABs/applicants for accreditation. This legal act obliges accreditation body to follow ISO/IEC 17011 requirements and requires that applicants for accreditation and accredited CABs comply with the requirements of relevant conformity assessment standards and EA, ILAC, IAF documents.
BSCA has been
testing, calibration, certification of products, management systems and personnel on the 3d of October, 2018
medical examination, inspection and proficiency testing providers on the 26th of May, 2020.
testing and calibration on the 5th of October, 2018.
medical examination, inspection and proficiency testing providers on the 5th of June, 2020.
- a member of IAF since September 14, 2015, and became a signatory to IAF MLA in the spheres of certification of products, management systems and personnel on the 17th of October, 2018.
BSCA legal responsibility is set in several legal acts:
- Certificate
of state registration as a legal entity
. BSCA is an
independent, state-owned legal entity which was
registered on
16th August 2010 and was assigned a
unique number 191318134 within the State Register of legal entities
of the Republic
of Belarus. On 10
th November 2010 BSCA has shortened its
abbreviation from “State Enterprise “Belarusian State Centre for Accreditation”
to “State Enterprise “BSCA” – this resulted in issuance of an updated
certificate of state registration, but the unique registration number 191318134
stayed the same.
- 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
” (hereinafter – the Law on
accreditation). The Law on accreditation sets general legal regulation in the field
of accreditation and refers to
“Accreditation Rules” as more detailed legal act in
the field of accreditation.
- Legal act “Accreditation Rules” (National
Register of Legal acts of the Republic of Belarus – N 8/24689 of 12 January
2012) as amended by the Resolution of the State Committee for Standardization of the Republic of Belarus of June 19, 2017 No. 49 and Resolution of the State Committee for Standardization of the Republic of Belarus of 26 June 2019 No 39 (National Register of Legal acts of the Republic of Belarus - N 8/34538 of 4 September 2019). In accordance with the
Accreditation
Rules
BSCA is the national accreditation body of Belarus. This legal
act lays down powers and responsibilities of accreditation body and sets rights
and obligations of accredited CABs/applicants for accreditation. It also
describes procedures for accreditation (initial, reaccreditation and
surveillance etc.), sets rules for applying accreditation symbols and lays down
the template for accreditation certificate.
- As a legal entity BSCA
operates in accordance with the
Statute. BSCA has separate property,
operates on the principles of cost accounting (this is prescribed by the
article 43 of the Law on accreditation) and bears full financial responsibility
for fulfilling its obligations arising from its activity. BSCA can acquire and exercise property and
non-property rights in accordance with national legislation, may sue in the
court and be sued.
The BSCA conducts activities related only to accreditation. BSCA does not carry out
conformity assessment activities covered by accreditation, consultancy on
accreditation or preparation for accreditation of conformity assessment bodies.
BSCA operate as a self-financing
organization.
BSCA accreditation activity are carried out on the basis of contractual agreements with business entities interested in accreditation.