Analysis of requirements for means and methods of measuring according to DSTU ISO/IEC 17025:2017

Abstract

Globalization of the world market has necessitated the solution of the problem of mutual recognition of the results of the assessment of the conformity of products and services. Ukraine's accession to the World Trade Organization, the signing of the Association with the EU requires the fulfillment of a number of requirements, including bringing the national system of technical regulation in line with the European one. The European system of technical regulation provides for the definition of requirements for means and measurement methods in test and calibration laboratories in accordance with the international standard ISO/IEC 17025 (General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories). From 01.01.2018 in Ukraine DSTU ISO/IEC 17025:2017 [1] was introduced, which is a new edition of DSTU ISO/IEC 17025:2006. In the new edition of this International Standard, the requirements for the means and methods of measurement differ from the requirements of its previous version. An analysis of these differences is given in this article.