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The short version: nothing changes for your accreditation, and nothing is required from you right now. When the new combined mark becomes available, expected in March 2027, NAC will send you instructions. Until then, keep using your current marks as you do today. Your checklist Keep your current mark. The
Operational technology (OT) now sits at the center of public safety and economic stability. The same programmable controllers, network devices, and industrial systems that run power grids, water treatment plants, pipelines, and factory floors are increasingly connected, and increasingly targeted. As a result, asset owners and regulators no longer accept
Validation and verification are constantly used as synonyms but under ISO/IEC 17029 they describe two different jobs, separated mainly by one thing: time. One looks forward at a claim about the future; the other looks back at a claim about what already happened. As organizations make more public claims greenhouse
Accreditation and certification are often used as if they mean the same thing. They don’t and the difference decides whether your results are trusted, accepted, and recognized across borders. If you run a laboratory, an inspection body, or a manufacturing operation, you’ve almost certainly been asked to prove your quality.
Every day, decisions that affect your safety, your money, and your health rest on a piece of paper you will never read. A test report says the window on the 30th floor will hold in a hurricane. A calibration certificate says the pump at the gas station delivers a real
ISO/IEC 42007 and ISO/IEC 17067: A New Framework for AI Conformity Assessment Schemes Meta description: ISO/IEC 42007 introduces a new framework for developing AI conformity assessment and certification schemes under ISO/IEC 17067. Here’s what the standard covers, how it connects to ISO/IEC 42001, and what it means for the accreditation
The short version: nothing changes for your accreditation, and nothing is required from you right now. When the new combined mark becomes available, expected in March 2027, NAC will send you instructions. Until then, keep using your current marks as you do today. Your checklist Keep your current mark. The
ISO/IEC 17024:2026 Revision: Key Changes for Personnel Certification Bodies ISO/IEC 17024:2026 is now the current edition of the international standard for bodies that certify people, replacing the 2012 version that personnel certification bodies have relied on for well over a decade. Released in March 2026, the new edition is the
ISO released the new revision of ISO/IEC 17020 Requirements for bodies performing inspection on March 27, 2026. At the National Accreditation Center (NAC), we’ve outlined below how inspection bodies applying for accreditation for the first time, along with the inspection bodies we already accredit, will move to the new edition.
Quick answer: On 1 January 2026, ILAC and IAF were replaced by a single international accreditation organisation, Global Accreditation Cooperation Incorporated — known as Global ACI. The ILAC MRA and IAF MLA were merged into one Global ACI MRA. Existing accreditations remain valid, existing marks remain usable during a transition
