National Accreditation Bureau (NAB)

• The National Accreditation Office is a budgetary institution under the Ministry of Economy and Innovation of the Republic of Lithuania, which implements state policy in the field of accreditation.
• The strategic goal of the office is to ensure that the activities of accredited conformity assessment bodies - certification and control bodies, testing and calibration laboratories - are recognized at the international level.
• The mission of the office is to perform the functions of a national accreditation body in Lithuania.
• The office accredits testing, calibration and medical laboratories, control institutions, certification bodies for persons, products, management systems, EMAS assessors and supervises their activities.
• The office performs the functions of the control authority for compliance with the principles of Good Laboratory Practice.

NAB Membership:

• full member of the European Accreditation Organization (EA);
• Member of the Forum of Accreditation and Licensing Bodies (FALB);
• EA Signatory of multilateral recognition agreements in the fields of accreditation of calibration, testing and medical laboratories, control bodies, persons, products and management systems certification bodies;
• The office is a full member of the International Organization for Laboratory Accreditation (ILAC);
• Signatory of ILAC Multilateral Recognition Agreements (MRA) in the fields of accreditation of calibration, testing and medical laboratories, control bodies.

Source: National Accreditation Office.