Swedish Board for Accreditation and Conformity Assessment (, ) is the national accreditation body, assessing the competence of

laboratories A laboratory (; ; colloquially lab) is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which science, scientific or technological research, experiments, and measurement may be performed. Laboratories are found in a variety of settings such as s ...

, 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 114,556 inhabitants in 2024. It is widely known for being a textile city, home to worldwide brands and companie ...

. It is also responsible for regulations and surveillance in the field of legal metrology.

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