On November 5, the Deputy Minister of Economic Development–Head of RusAccreditation approved the Methodological Recommendations for forming programmes of on-site conformity assessment of testing laboratories (centres) and calibration laboratories (hereinafter referred to as the Methodological Recommendations, Model Programmes) as documents of the quality management system of RusAccreditation.

The Methodological Recommendations and Model Programmes have been developed in accordance with the legal requirements to testing and calibration laboratories (GOST ISO/IEC 17025-2019 “General Requirements for Testing and Calibration Laboratories Competence”) and resulted from the need to provide the public services of accreditation and competence attestation in compliance with the new standard.