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Six checks on an accreditation certificate, before you appoint anyone
Buyers routinely accept a scanned accreditation certificate as proof that a body can perform the work in front of it. The certificate proves the body is accredited for something. The schedule proves it is accredited for this. These six checks take about fifteen minutes and prevent the failure that shows up latest and costs most.
What to verify, in order.
1. The legal entity on the certificate
Compare it to the entity that will sign your contract and your statement. Group names, trading names and local affiliates are not the same thing. The accreditation attaches to a specific legal person.
Identity2. The standard the body is accredited to
For validation and verification, that is ISO/IEC 17029:2019 with ISO 14065:2020. For management-system certification, ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015. A body accredited to the second cannot issue what the first produces.
Activity3. The programme and the scope
Which standards, which sectors, which activities. Accreditation under ISO/IEC 17029 does not mean accreditation for every programme — the schedule lists the ones granted.
The schedule4. The geography
Accreditation is granted for recorded locations. An office in your country is not accreditation in your country, and its absence is not the reverse. Read the geography, not the address list.
Territory5. Validity dates and current status
Issue date, expiry date, and — separately — whether the accreditation is currently suspended, withdrawn or restricted. A certificate is a snapshot; the accreditation body's register is the current position.
Currency6. The accreditation body itself
Confirm the accreditation body is a signatory to the relevant multilateral arrangement for the activity, if cross-border recognition matters to your user.
Recognition
Our own record, in the format these checks expect.
| Legal entity | Energy Up International LLC |
|---|---|
| Investment licence | MISA 24925237477 |
| Accreditation body | Egyptian Accreditation Council (EGAC) |
| Accreditation certificate | 1225009A |
| Accreditation schedule | 1225009B |
| Core standards | ISO/IEC 17029:2019 · ISO 14065:2020 |
| Competence and performance | ISO 14066:2023 · ISO 14064-3:2019 |
| Accredited programmes | ISO 14064-1:2018 · ISO 14064-2:2019 · ISO 14067:2018 · ISO 14068-1:2023 |
| Issue date | 09 January 2026 |
| Valid to | 08 January 2030 |
| Registered accreditation site | Olaya, Riyadh |
| CBAM | ACCREDIA · case C DC 07/2026 · application formally accepted, assessment underway |
Where the checks change.
CBAM verification has its own accreditation route. Under Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/2551, accreditation of CBAM verifiers is granted by the national accreditation bodies of EU countries, against defined scopes covering the aggregated goods categories plus separate scopes for carbon capture, utilisation and storage, imported electricity and indirect emissions. The regulation identifies EN ISO/IEC 17029:2019 as the harmonised standard, sets competence requirements for CBAM auditors, lead auditors and independent reviewers, and requires annual surveillance by the accreditation body. Source: EUR-Lex — Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/2551, checked 01 September 2026.
The practical consequence for a buyer: an existing ISO/IEC 17029 accreditation for GHG programmes does not authorise CBAM verification. Ask for the CBAM accreditation specifically, from an EU national accreditation body, with a scope that names the goods category you produce.
Applying our own test to ourselves: our CBAM application has been formally accepted by ACCREDIA under case C DC 07/2026 and the assessment is underway. We are not accredited for CBAM verification today, and we do not offer it as an accredited service.
Primary sources
- ISO/IEC 17029:2019 — general principles and requirements for validation and verification bodies — www.iso.org/certification.html (checked 01 September 2026)
- ISO 14065:2020 — requirements for bodies validating and verifying environmental information — www.iso.org/certification.html (checked 01 September 2026)
- ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015 — requirements for management-system certification bodies — www.iso.org/certification.html (checked 01 September 2026)
- IAF mandatory documents and multilateral recognition arrangements — iaf.nu/en/iaf-documents- (checked 01 September 2026)
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/2551 — accreditation, oversight and withdrawal for CBAM verifiers — eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2025/2551/oj/eng (checked 01 September 2026)
- European Commission — CBAM verification — taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/carbon-border-adjustment-mechanism/cbam-verification_en (checked 01 September 2026)
Editorial note. Author and technical review above are editorial functions. They are separate from the independent technical review and the decision functions required under ISO/IEC 17029:2019, which apply to validation and verification engagements and not to published articles. Nothing on this page is advice on a specific engagement, and nothing here extends or replaces the accreditation records.
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