国际实验室认可合作组织（International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation，英文缩 ILAC）
国际实验室认可合作组织（International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation，英文缩 ILAC） www.ilac.org国际实验室认可合作组织的前身是1978年产生的国际实验室认可大会（International Laboratory Accreditation Conference，ILAC），其宗旨是通过提高对获认可实验室出具的检测和校准结果的接受程度，以便在促进国际贸易方面建立国际合作。
1996年ILAC成为一个正式的国际组织，其目标是在能够履行这项宗旨的认可机构间建立一个相互承认协议网络。ILAC互认协议的产生是22年努力工作的结晶。ILAC目前有100多名成员，分为正式成员、协作成员、区域合作组织和相关组织等。
ILAC目标为：
1） 研究实验室认可的程序和规范；
2）推动实验室认可的发展，促进国际贸易；
3）帮助发展中国家建立实验室认可体系；
4）促进世界范围的实验室互认，避免不必要的重复评审。
ILAC多边承认协议（MRA）作用：
ILAC通过建立相互同行评审制度，形成国际多边互认机制，并通过多边协议促进对认可的实验室结果的利用，从而减少技术壁垒。截止2006年，包括我国在内的54个实验室认可机构成为国际实验室认可合作组织的正式成员，并签署了多边互认协议，为逐步结束国际贸易中重复检测的历史，实现产品“一次检测、全球承认”的目标奠定了基础。
我国参与ILAC的有关活动情况：
1996年9月包括原中国实验室国家认可委员会（CNACL）和原中国国家进出口商品检验实验室认可委员会（CCIBLAC）在内的44个实验室认可机构签署了正式成立“国际实验室认可合作组织”的谅解备忘录（MOU），成为ILAC的第一批正式全权成员。
2000年11月和2001年11月，原CNACL和CCIBLAC分别签署了ILAC多边互认协议（MRA ）。
2003年原中国实验室国家认可委员会（CNAL，2002年7月在CNACL和CCIBLAC合并基础上成立的国家认可机构）续签了ILAC多边互认协议（MRA ）。目前，CNAS已取代原中国实验室国家认可委员会（CNAL）继续保持我国认可机构在ILAC中实验室认可多边互认协议方的地位。中国国家合格评定委员会CNAS:对检测/校准实验室和检查机构有能力完成特定任务作出正式承认的程序，是对检测/校准实验室进行类似于应用在生产和服务的ISO9000认证的一种评审，但要求更为严格，属于自愿性认证体系，它由中国实验室国家认可委员会组织进行。通过认可的实验室出具的检测报告可以加盖国家实验室认可委员会（CNAS）和ILAC的印章，所出具的数据国际互认。
ILAC – the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation – is an international cooperation of laboratory and inspection accreditation bodies formed more than 30 years ago to help remove technical barriers to trade.
Accreditation allows people to make an informed decision when selecting a laboratory, as it demonstrates competence, impartiality and capability. It helps to underpin the credibility and performance of goods and services.
Accreditation bodies around the world, which have been evaluated by peers as competent, have signed an arrangement that enhances the acceptance of products and services across national borders. The purpose of this arrangement, the ILAC Arrangement, is to create an international framework to support international trade through the removal of technical barriers.
ILAC counts as its members laboratory and inspection accreditation bodies representing more than 70 economies and regional organisations.
The ultimate aim of the ILAC Arrangement is the increased use and acceptance by industry as well as regulators of the results from accredited laboratories and inspection bodies, including results from laboratories in other countries. In this way, the free-trade goal of ‘product tested once and accepted everywhere’ can be realised.
ILAC provides a focus for:
Developing and harmonising laboratory and inspection accreditation practicesPromoting laboratory and inspection accreditation to industry, governments, regulators and consumersAssisting and supporting developing accreditation systemsGlobal recognition of laboratories and inspection facilities via the ILAC Arrangement, thus facilitating acceptance of test, inspection and calibration data accompanying goods across national borders
The International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) first started as a conference in 1977 with the aim of developing international cooperation for facilitating trade by promotion of the acceptance of accredited test and calibration results. In 1996, ILAC became a formal cooperation with a charter to establish a network of mutual recognition agreements among accreditation bodies that would fulfil this aim. The ILAC Arrangement is the culmination of 22 years of intensive work.
On 2 November 2000, 36 laboratory accreditation bodies, full members of the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC), from 28 economies worldwide signed an ‘arrangement’ in Washington, DC to promote the acceptance of technical test and calibration data for exported goods.
The arrangement came into effect on 31 January 2001. The ‘ILAC Arrangement’ provides significant technical underpinning to international trade. The key to the Arrangement is the developing global network of accredited testing and calibration laboratories that are assessed and recognised as being competent by ILAC Arrangement signatory accreditation bodies.
The signatories have, in turn, been peer-reviewed and shown to meet ILAC’s criteria for competence. Now that the ILAC Arrangement is in place, governments can take advantage of it to further develop or enhance trade agreements. The ultimate aim is increased use and acceptance by industry as well as government of the results from accredited laboratories, including results from laboratories in other countries. In this way, the free-trade goal of ‘product tested once and accepted everywhere’ can be realised.
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