CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT POLICY IN THE UK

Standards and Technical Regulations Directorate, DTI

1/01/2005
(Original Publish Date: 2007)

This paper has been prepared as a public statement of the key policy principles relating to the use of conformity assessment, including accreditation, in the UK. In most respects, it does not create new policy but is a collection of principles that have been agreed and understood for some time but have not before been presented together as a coherent policy statement.