This report, swedac-rep-18-6-eng, highlights a number of applications that can serve as good examples and guidance for both legislators and private enterprise on how to use accreditation and standardisation as powerful tools. The report shows that 5 out of 6 enterprises find accreditation essential to their export activities and thus crucial to their operations.
In addition, the report draws attention to a number of problems that need to be dealt with in order to make use of the intrinsic potential in accreditation and standardisation when they interact.