Archives of the information from IAJapan

2014

2014/8/8

JLAC* to host 2014 JLAC Technical Information Seminar on Friday, September 19, 2014

2014 JLAC Technical Information Seminar will be held on Friday, September 19 at Shinagawa Community Center Hall (CURIAN) from 13:00 to 17:00.
This year's theme is "Accreditation: Delivering confidence in the provision of energy" aligned with the theme of World Accreditation Day 2014 as previously announced by IAF and ILAC.
Mr. Yamir Diaz-Castillo, Reactor Operations Engineer of United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission will deliver a keynote session on “U.S. NRC’s Recognition of the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation Mutual Recognition Arrangement.”
For more information and the 2014 JLAC Technical Information Seminar Program.
JLAC Technical Seminar Program_2014[PDF:90KB]
To join the seminar, please access our online registration page (in Japanese language).

*Japan Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (JLAC) of Japan Accreditation Council (JAC)

2014/4/11

A promotional film "World Accreditation Day 2014" has been uploaded

June 9th 2014 will mark World Accreditation Day, a global initiative jointly established by the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) to raise awareness of the importance of accreditation-related activities. A short promotional film titled World Accreditation Day Animation 2014 about how accreditation delivers confidence in everyday life is uploaded on the IAF and ILAC YouTube channel. Subtitles to the voice-over narration of the film are available in 25 different languages. Please click the "caption" button on the right corner of the YouTube screen to access subtitles.

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2013

2013/10/24

IAJapan Contributes to Strengthening Reliability and Competitiveness of Japanese Products for Overseas Markets

IAJapan has signed the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) Multilateral Recognition Arrangement (MLA) during IAF Plenary Meeting held in Seoul on October 24, 2013. The enforcement of this MLA is effective from September 20, 2013.

2013/9/30

Notice for the website for RMinfo and COMAR closed.

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2013/9/17

Notice for the business transfer related to RMinfo and COMAR

From October 1, 2013, the business related to Reference Materials Total Information System (RMinfo) will be transferred entirely to National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology / National Metrology Institute of Japan (AIST/NMIJ). The website of National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE) will be closed on September 30, 2013.

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2013/7/1

Notice for the business transfer related to RMinfo and COMAR

The business related to Reference Materials Total Information System (RMinfo) and International Database for Certified Reference Materials (COMAR) will be transferred to National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology / National Metrology Institute of Japan (AIST/NMIJ).

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2013/6/5

World Accreditation Day

June 9th 2013 will mark the sixth World Accreditation Day.

2013/5/29

IAJapan Contributes to Strengthening Reliability and Competitiveness of Japanese Products for Overseas Markets

IAJapan has signed the Pacific Accreditation Cooperation (PAC) Multilateral Recognition Arrangement (MLA) during PAC Plenary Meeting held in Hawaii on May 22, 2013 (Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time).

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2012

2012/6/4

World Accreditation Day

June 9th 2012 will mark the fifth International Accreditation Day, a global initiative jointly established by the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) to raise awareness of the importance of accreditation-related activities.

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2011

2011/6/9

World Accreditation Day

June 9th 2011 will mark World Accreditation Day, a global initiative jointly established by the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) to raise awareness of the importance of accreditation-related activities.

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2010

2011/03/23

Chief Exective's Message Regarding the 2011 Tohoku-Pacific Ocean Earthquake [PDF:102KB]

2010/5/28

World Accreditation Day

June 9th 2010 will mark the third World Accreditation Day, a global initiative jointly established by the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) to raise awareness of the importance of accreditation-related activities.

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2009

2009/12/15

APLAC 16th General Assembly and Technical Meetings are scheduled to be held at International House, Osaka from December 4th to December 10th.

2009/12/15

Notice: Temporal closing of our web site

We are going to stop the service due to the server maintenance on Satday, Dec 19, 2009 from 09:00 to 19:00 (Japan Standard Time). We are very sorry to cause you inconvenience, but we hope you will kindly understand the above.

2009/8/5

We are going to stop the RMinfo service due to the server maintenance from 9:00 to 20:00 on 2009.08.08 (Japan Standard Time). We are very sorry to cause you inconvenience, but we hope you will kindly understand the above.

2009/5/22

International Accreditation Day

June 9th 2009 will mark the second International Accreditation Day, a globalinitiative jointly established by the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) to raise awareness of the importance of accreditation-related activities.

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2008

2009/3/30

Change of Classification of Findings

IAJapan changes the classification of findings from April 1, 2009. Please contact [email protected] for the detail.

2008/12/17

Update for APLAC MRA

An APLAC MRA Council was held in Singapore. Some APLAC members have been accepted to extend the scope of accreditation. Please see ILAC/MRA and APLAC/MRA for the detail.

2008/9/1

News release from COMAR

There was a press release concerning improvement of COMAR database from the central secretariat. Please refer to COMAR top page News and BAM( Bundesanstalt fur Materialforschung und -prufung:Germany) top page New/Media Relations/Press Releases.
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2008/4/4

International Accreditation Day

June 9th of 2008 was designated as the first International Accreditation Day by IAF and ILAC at the last Joint General Assembly Meeting in 2007. On this day, some promotional activities such as seminar will be held around the world.

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2007

2007/12/6

IAJapan signed up APLAC MRA for accreditation of RMPs (Reference Material Producers).

IAJapan applied for extension of APLAC MRA to cover RMP accreditation, and an APLAC on-site evaluation was conducted last September. Eventually, on December 6, IAJapan was accepted as a signatory by the MRA Council, and "the signing ceremony [PDF:425KB]" was held at the APLAC General Assembly Meeting in Kuala Lumpur.

2007/11/1

JCSS Accredited Calibration Laboratories Searching System Launched

For the convenience of the overseas clients, JCSS Accredited Laboratories Serching System is introduced in the page of "Accredited Calibration Laboratories".

2007/10/15

Some Pubilcation Documents in English avaliable

For the convenience of the overseas clients, English translations of some publication documents of JNLA and ASNITE are now available. However, these translations are not official documents, and Japanese versions are always official ones.

2007/9/26

JNLA celebrates 10th Anniversary

IAJapan prepared a leaflet "JNLA 10th Anniversary" in Japanese.

2007/8/1

ILAC celebrates 30th Anniversary

For media release.
ILAC celebrates 30 years-International release 22 [PDF:11KB]

2007/7/5

Temporal closing of RMinfo(Reference Materials Total Information Services of Japan)

We are going to stop the RMinfo service due to the server maintenance on July 27th,2007. We are very sorry to cause you inconvenience, but we hope you will kindly understand the above.
For inquiries ,please send an E-mail to [email protected]

2007/6/25

ASNITE Accreditation on 25 June, 2007

The following Conformity Assessment Body(CAB) was accredited on 25 June, 2007.
ASNITE 0019 T Evaluation Body for IT-Security, TUV Informationstechnik GmbH [PDF:5KB]

2007/5/30

Temporal closing of RMinfo(Reference Materials Total Information Services of Japan)

We are going to stop the RMinfo service due to the server maintenance from 2007 June 1st to June 4th. We are very sorry to cause you inconvenience, but we hope you will kindly understand the above.
For inquiries ,please send an E-mail to [email protected]

2007/4/1

Renewal of ASNITE

ASNITE reformed and the Web contents changed.

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2006

2006/9/4

JAC (Japan Accreditation Council) Website open !

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2006/4/1

RMinfo transferred to IAJapan

According to the organization reform of NITE in April 1, 2006, RMinfo has been transferred to IAJapan.

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2002

2002/08

NMIJ was accredited for 3 categories of calibration (mass & related measurand, length, time & frequency) under ASNITE-NMI program.

2002/06

At the meeting of APLAC MRA Council in Hong Kong, IAJapan (the merger of JCSS and JNLA) was approved as a signatory accreditation body to APLAC/MRA. This approval dates back to April 1, 2002.

2002/05

IAJapan started the approval system for proficiency testing programs and approved JEMIC as the firstly-approved PT provider for its electrical calibrations programs.

2002/04

NMIJ was accredited for 3 categories of calibration (mass & related measurand, length, time & frequency) under ASNITE-NMI program.