With water quality continually deteriorating, biodiversity collapsing and pressures on the environment increasing due to economic development, it is more essential than ever for society to reconcile growth with sustainable development.
Accreditation can be used to address this challenge, by allowing the public authorities and decision-makers to draw on reliable inspections and data to check whether targets set by environmental policy are being attained.
Certain management systems aim to reduce and manage the impact of human activity on nature and biodiversity. This is the case in particular with environmental management systems.
Certification of such systems by a third party is a means of getting their conformity with international norms and standards recognised, and in this way certifying that the organisation in place meets precise requirements in terms of respect for the environment.
Use of accredited certification allows a customer to obtain assurance that the Conformity Assessment Body (CAB) whose services it is using is competent and impartial. It is a token of confidence in the quality of the certification delivered.
