Priorities of Romanian Organisations Providing Standardisation, Quality Assurance and Certification, Accreditation and Metrology Services

Standardization, quality assurance and conformity assessment, accreditation and metrology are narrowly related activities which have a decisive role in a functional and secure market. Thus, they are frequently considered together, usually referred as SQAM services. They are also activities which enjoy of a constant preoccupation in the European Union. The main instruments that ensure the enforcement of the free movement of goods principle and the deepening of the European Internal Market are the European directives, harmonized standards, accreditation, conformity certification, testing and metrology.The ability of Romanian companies to trade competitively on the Internal Market depends heavily on their access at available, high quality SQAM services at competitive costs. The Romanian institutional infrastructure requires a lot of efforts in order to cope with European norms and practices in the most advantageous way for companies and consumers. The present paper presents a brief analysis of the current situation and discusses several priorities faced by the main organisations that bear responsibility for the development of SQAM services in Romania