Accredia'a General Assembly 2026

Approved the Annuale Report and shared the 2025 results: over 100,000 certified companies and growth in accreditations in strategic sectors.

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Simona Quinzi, the new General Director

Manager with over 25 years’ experience within the Confindustria system, she succeeds Filippo Trifiletti.

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Digital skills

International Digital Skills Certification for GPS and ATA, how to recognise a valid certificate.

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Accreditated Services

Biobanks

Accredited biobanks provide scientific research and industry with reproducible and comparable results on biological materials, also contributing to public health protection.

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Calibrations

Calibrations make it possible to determine the indication error of measuring instruments and systems as well as the values of measurement samples in order to guarantee more accurate and reliable measurement results.

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Certifications

Accredited certifications guarantee the conformity of systems, processes, products, services and people with the requirements of international rules and standards.

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Inspections

Inspections make it possible to assess the conformity, at a given time, of a product, service, process or plant to specific requirements, or, according to the inspector's judgement, to general requirements.

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Medical analyses

Medical analyses performed under accreditation are a valuable tool to support reliable diagnoses for quality healthcare.

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Proficiency testing

Proficiency testing carried out under accreditation is the evaluation of a laboratory's performance against pre-established criteria, through comparisons with other laboratories.

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Reference materials

Reference materials are materials that are homogeneous and stable with respect to specified properties, and therefore suitable for their intended use in a measurement, or in the examination of classification properties.

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Reference measurements

Accredited calibration laboratories provide laboratory medicine with measurement services that fulfil the requirement of traceability.

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Tests

Tests performed under accreditation consist of the determination of one or more product characteristics according to well-defined methodologies.

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Verifications and validations

Verification and validation activities carried out under accreditation measure the accuracy and conformity of company declarations on greenhouse gas emissions.

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Accreditation

Accreditation supports the Country: results and challenges of Accredia’s Departments

Innovation, competence, regulatory developments, and technical quality: the directors of Accredia’s three Departments explain how accreditation activities for bodies and laboratories are changing, increasingly supporting the national economy.

29 July 2026
Accreditation

Notified bodies: the new “EA Document on Accreditation for Notification Purposes”

European co-operation for Accreditation (EA) has published the revised EA 2/17 “EA Document on Accreditation for Notification Purposes” and its 3 Supplements.

28 July 2026
Institutional

Accredia 2026 Annual Meeting: Annual Report and Financial Statements approved, accreditation on the rise

Members approved the organization’s documents and reviewed the 2025 results: over 100,000 certified companies and growth in accreditations across strategic sectors. The meeting bid farewell to Filippo Trifiletti and welcomed Simona Quinzi.

02 July 2026
Institutional

Simona Quinzi is the new Director General of Accredia

Simona Quinzi is the new General Director of Accredia, the Italian accreditation body designated by the Italian Government to assess the competence, impartiality and independence of bodies and laboratories that verify the conformity of products, services, processes, systems and personnel with reference standards. The organization’s Executive Committee, accepting the proposal put forward by its President,…

16 June 2026
Sustainability

Accredited management system certification for gender equality

Italy has turned accredited certification for Gender Equality Management Systems into a practical lever for innovation, trust and sustainability and a concrete contribution to UN Sustainable Development Goal 5 (Gender Equality).

15 May 2026