The European Accreditation Cooperation (EA) has updated its report on the Accreditation and Notification Project (AfN) as of April 2025. With this update, the European Union’s recently adopted New Construction Products Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2024/3110) has also been included. The aim of the AfN report is to harmonize the standards to be used in the accreditation process of Notified Bodies across Europe and to establish a comparable level of quality in all member states.
With the new update, it has become mandatory for notified bodies operating in the field of building materials to act in accordance with certain standards such as EN ISO/IEC 17065, EN ISO/IEC 17025 and EN ISO/IEC 17029 in product certification, testing and verification activities. In particular, the standards to be used in System 1, System 1+, System 2+, System 3 and System 3+ verification processes have been clearly defined.
The AfN project aims to ensure that National Accreditation Bodies (NABs) and Notified Bodies across Europe adopt a harmonized approach. The aim is to create a reliable, comparable and consistent conformity assessment infrastructure for both producers and consumers.
The updated report also envisages periodic review of standard lists in case new legislation comes into force and revision of the EA-2/17 mandatory document in line with these changes. In the project, it is stated that EN ISO/IEC 17065 was selected as the priority standard in many modules in line with expert assessments, but in some cases standards such as EN ISO/IEC 17020 and EN ISO/IEC 17021-1 were also taken into consideration.
The aim is to ensure greater transparency, consistency and reliability in accreditation processes for notified bodies operating in the building materials sector in Europe.
For the report: AFN-Project-April-2-025
