German Accreditation Body
The German Accreditation Body ( DAkkS ) is a private-sector organization that acts as the national accreditation body of the Federal Republic of Germany . It is based in Berlin , Braunschweig and Frankfurt / Main . The DAkkS is an authority within the meaning of Section 1 (4) of the Administrative Procedure Act.
Founding history
As part of the European Regulation (EC) No. 765/2008 (Article 4 Paragraph 1), all EU member states must designate a single national accreditation body from January 1, 2010. In connection with the Accreditation Body Act (AkkStelleG), the umbrella organization of the German Accreditation Council (DAR) had to merge with the following four specialist societies for certain areas in the public interest to form the DAkkS:
- German Accreditation Body Chemistry (DACH)
- German calibration service (DKD)
- German Testing Accreditation System (DAP)
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Association for Accreditation (TGA)
- Via an anticipated merger, the TGA also includes the German Accreditation Body for Technology (DATech)
organization
DAkkS is a private sector body that beliehene perceives sovereign functions. The DAkkS is not profit-oriented. For activities of sovereign accreditation, the DAkkS is subject to the German Administrative Procedure Act (VwVfG) and other administrative regulations.
The GmbH shareholders of DAkkS are each one third:
- the federal states, represented by the states of Bavaria, Hamburg and North Rhine-Westphalia (as of 2017, previously: Bavaria, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Saxony-Anhalt.)
- the Federal Republic of Germany, represented by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and
- the German economy, represented by the Federation of German Industry .
The federal states were primarily involved in order to transfer the existing organizations of the states more easily into the DAkkS, "whereby parallel structures and activities at state level can be dispensed with".
criticism
Legal requirements in connection with an authority are circumvented by transferring the sovereign tasks to an institution under private law.
In a joint statement, the three associations Eurolab-D , the Association of Material Testing Institutes (VMPA) and the Association of Independent Testing Laboratories (VUP) criticized the reform of the fee regulation for the accreditation body presented by the Federal Ministry of Economics (BMWi) . The rate of price increases is damaging medium-sized companies and thus Germany as a business location.
Web links
- dakks.de - Official website
- Law on the Accreditation Body (Accreditation Body Act - AkkStelleG) (PDF file; 40 kB)
- Ordinance on lending to the accreditation body according to the Accreditation Body Act (AkkStelleGBV) (PDF file; 34 kB)
- Fees Ordinance of the Accreditation Body (AkkStelleGebV) (PDF file; 62 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: cf. DAkkS document “Accreditation of conformity assessment bodies”, page 3. (156 KB) ).
- ↑ a b See “All good things come in threes” in: DAkkS News 2011 issue 3, page 10. PDF file (1.7 MB) .
- ↑ Jürgen Ensthaler , Dagmar Gesmann-Nuissl , Klaus Joachim Zink ; Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Berlin in May 2016 Project 25/15 "Evaluation of the German accreditation structure" Section 3 a), third paragraph
- ↑ German Association of Independent Testing Laboratories: Renewed increase in the cost of accreditation is unreasonable, unacceptable and cannot be communicated!