Twinning project

Setting conditions for recognition of the Armenian Accreditation

System by the European Co-operation for Accreditation

The EU member states (MS) Germany and Italy and their National Accreditation Bodies (NAB) – the German National Accreditation Body (DAkkS) and the Italian National Accreditation Body (ACCREDIA) - offer their complementary strengths to support Armenia in reaching the goal of further developing its accreditation and conformity assessment system. The MS consortium experts will share up-to-date knowledge, broad experiences from their home countries and other partner countries (e.g. Eastern Partnership or Western Balkan countries) and integrate their Armenian colleagues in their networks on international level.

This Twinning project will build up on several relevant technical assistance (TA) projects, which are or were implemented in Armenia. The Twinning project will benefit from built-up trust and excellent working relations established in the past between the German and Italian consortium members, as well as from similar work experiences of MS consortium members in other countries in Eastern Europe / Caucasus region.

The overall objective of the Twinning project is to support the implementation of the EU-Armenia Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement (CEPA) with regards to fostering an internationally recognized accreditation and conformity assessment system in Armenia. The specific objective of the project is to support Armenian National Accreditation Body (ARMNAB) to actively participate in European co-operation for Accreditation (EA) fulfilling the conditions for associate EA membership. ARMNAB as associate member of EA has not yet applied for EA peer evaluation – the project will provide support to prepare for the fulfilment of the conditions to become an EA bilateral signatory.