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• To assess, accredit and supervise certification and inspection bodies and testing<br />

and calibration laboratories in accordance with the requirements of Latvian<br />

National standards, normative acts, European and international standards;<br />

• To facilitate work of the Latvian National Accreditation Council;<br />

• To organise accreditation of technical committees;<br />

• To train accreditation experts and other specialists involved thereof;<br />

• To organise and co-ordinate inter-laboratory comparison testing in accordance<br />

with Latvian, European Union and international requirements;<br />

• To collaborate with national accreditation bodies from other countries;<br />

• To represent Latvia within international accreditation organisations;<br />

• To maintain and update information basis on accredited institutions;<br />

• On request of ministries, to provide them with information on accredited<br />

institutions and their competence area.<br />

LATAK perform accreditation of:<br />

• Testing and calibration laboratories to LVS EN ISO/IEC 17025:2000;<br />

• Inspection bodies to LVS EN 45004: 1995;<br />

• Product certification bodies to LVS EN 45011: 1998;<br />

• Quality system certification bodies to LVS EN 45012: 1998;<br />

• Certification bodies of personnel certification to LVS EN 45013:1989.<br />

Latvian National Accreditation Bureau LATAK signed a Multilateral Agreement MLA<br />

on November 27 2002 with European Accreditation Co-operation EA in following<br />

fields:<br />

• accreditation of testing laboratories;<br />

• accreditation of calibration laboratories;<br />

• accreditation of product certification bodies;<br />

• accreditation of quality system certification bodies;<br />

• accreditation of personnel certification bodies;<br />

Inspection bodies by third-party subject<br />

The State Ltd "Latvian certification centre" is an institution under the authority of the<br />

Ministry of Health of the Republic of Latvia established in 1996 as the first independent<br />

product certification body in Latvia. LATSERT offer qualitative services of production<br />

conformity assessment of international standard - certification and testing. The service<br />

results in issuing a LATSERT certificate of conformity - an independent statement that<br />

the product offered by you does not incur risk to human health and environment -<br />

consequently it is safe to the consumer.<br />

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