IEC Conformity Assessment seminar at the BEC
The BEC organizes a half-day IEC Conformity Assessment event on February 21 in the afternoon from 13:30 to 17:00 at the BEC premises Bd A. Reyerslaan 80, 1030 Brussels.
Whereas standards provide written instructions, Conformity Assessments (CA) verify that these instructions are properly applied in real-world technical devices and systems. Conformity assessment refers to any activity that determines whether a product, system, service and sometimes people fulfil the requirements and characteristics described in a standard or specification. Such requirements can include performance, safety, efficiency, effectiveness, reliability, durability, or environmental impacts such as pollution or noise, for example. Verification is generally done through testing or/and inspection. The global IEC CA systems facilitate access to markets by the recognition of conformity assessment results from anywhere around the world within the CA system.
In the first part of the seminar the IEC CA systems will be introduced by a guest-speaker from IEC: www.iec.ch/conformity-assessment
- IECEE: schemes for Electrotechnical Equipment and components
- IERE: schemes relating to Equipment for use in Renewable Energy applications
- IECEx: schemes relating to Equipment for use in Explosive Atmospheres
- IECQ: schemes for Quality Assessments
In the second part of the seminar IEC CA partners SGS Belgium N.V. and Laboratoria De Nayer v.z.w. will introduce practices and share experiences with the CA schemes.
The event will close with an informal networking opportunity.