What is certification?
It is a process that evaluates and verifies the conformity of products, services or systems with specific norms and standards, ensuring quality and reliability.
Certification Process
The certification is the recognition of teamwork, the effort of organizations and companies. It is the well-deserved reward for those companies that decide to start the path of certification and improve their organizational processes and competitive capacity. Do you want to know what are the necessary steps to achieve it?
Learn moreSERVICES: What does the certification consist of?
It is the term that is most colloquially used to refer to what is technically called "conformity assessment". Conformity assessment is any assessment carried out to determine whether a product, process or management system meets specific requirements. Beyond certification, there are other types of evaluations that establish conformity or attest or veracity of something, in its most general sense.
Involves checking the conformity of products according to national standards or their international equivalent. At the same time, it encourages importers and exporters to understand the need for compliance and its advantages.
It is the action aimed at an organization that wishes to show responsibility by ensuring that its equipment, products and services comply with quality, safety, respect for the environment and imperative social responsibilities (whether mandatory, voluntary or its own, based on its own systems, standards or needs). Conformity assessment often requires type, surveillance or self-monitoring tests on products that are subject to some form of certification. Using the most advanced analytical methodologies, physicochemical, microbiological and sensory analyses are carried out on food products or cosmetics, hygiene and detergency products, among others.
AENOR Marks
In addition to the most widespread certifications and assessment services, AENOR is constantly innovating, creating schemes that respond to new business needs. Thus, AENOR's marks demonstrate this "certification" and constitute a differentiating and trustworthy element in the market, improving the image of products and services offered and generating trust between customers and consumers.
The AENOR team, made up of more than 900 auditors specialised in all economic and industrial sectors, is capable of tackling and managing global certification, verification, inspection and training projects in any geographical area, having a permanent presence in 12 countries, mainly in Latin America and Europe. In Spain, AENOR has delegations in all the Autonomous Communities, through its 18 headquarters.
Certification process : Areas and sectors
CERTIFICATION AREAS
AENOR is present with more than 400 types of certifications in the main areas of activity of the market, anticipating new economic trends and demand from companies, and helping them to improve their competitive advantages, whether through quality, respect for the environment, or occupational safety, demonstrating responsibility to society and, above all, improving the efficiency of processes in business management.
AENOR offers certifications in various areas that help companies to improve their competitiveness and sustainability. Among the areas highlighted are Equality and Diversity, which acts as a lever for competitiveness by implementing effective strategies in this area.
In the field of Technology and Digitalisation, AENOR provides certifications that help companies to apply for grants from the Digital Kit programme and to innovate with artificial intelligence. In Corporate Governance, companies such as Unicaja have received the AENOR Certificate of Good Corporate Governance Index, achieving the highest rating. Also noteworthy is the Sustainable Procurement certification, such as the one obtained by Avanza, which ratifies its commitment to a positive impact on the supply chain.
In addition, AENOR supports SMEs and startups through its own space, the SME Channel, promoting their development through sustainability and digitalisation.
SECTORS THAT ARE CERTIFIED
Generically, there are a series of horizontal evaluations applicable to any type of organization, regardless of its sector of activity, size, etc. Such is the case of the certification of the ISO 9001 quality management system, or the ISO 14001 environmental system, etc.
In turn, the different sectors of activity have been developing standards of specific application to their field of action, in response to the demands demanded by each sector. We are talking about sectors as important for our economy as the food, energy, building and civil works sectors, transport and logistics, health and social services...
Its most important advantage is facilitating access to markets. In some cases, it not only facilitates the sale operation, but it is an essential requirement to be able to enter certain markets, either for legal considerations, or because buyers of the product always request it.
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