The Keurhout Management Authority (KH-MA) has decided to honour a request of certification body (CB) “Control Union Certifications” (earlier SKAL) to be admitted to the pool of KH-registered CB’s. The admission is effective from July 15th 2009 and concerns the implementation of intake and annual surveillance audits concerning the CoC in consumer countries. CU is the third admitted CB, next to SGS and SKH. These certification bodies are accredited for the implementation of CoC audits on the basis of the ISO/IEC 65 Guidelines.
In view of the expected further increase of the number of Keurhout-participants the KH-MA strives to offer them and increased choice of CB’s. This stimulates better market conditions and enables the combination of KH-audits with audits for e.g. other CoC systems by one and the same CB, which may lead to considerable cost reductions.