Swedish Board for Accreditation and Conformity Assessment ( sv, Styrelsen för ackreditering och teknisk kontroll, ) is the national accreditation body, assessing the competence of
laboratories
A laboratory (; ; colloquially lab) is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific or technological research, experiments, and measurement may be performed. Laboratory services are provided in a variety of settings: physicia ...
, certification and inspection bodies in Sweden.
It is one of the
Government agencies in Sweden
The government agencies in Sweden are state-controlled organizations that act independently to carry out the policies of the Government of Sweden. The ministries are relatively small and merely policy-making organizations, allowed to monitor the ...
that answers to the
Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The agency is located in
Borås
Borås ( , , ) is a city (officially, a locality) and the seat of Borås Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 66,273 inhabitants in 2010.
Geography
Borås is located at the point of two crossing railways, among them the ...
. It is also responsible for regulations and surveillance in the field of
legal metrology.
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Science and technology in Sweden
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