Verification & Regulatory
Support licensing and startup
Support licensing and startup
Helping companies overcome licensing bureacracy
When you cook, you want to make sure the gas installation is safe. Hence be certified.
And when you are in the office, you want to have confidence that the air-conditioning air is filtered and of good quality. Hence the air-conditioning has to comply with specific rules.
And when you go to the restaurant, you want to make sure you consume quality products. Hence the restaurant has specific certification.
The examples are many, from small to large activities, but the truth is that we live in a world with many rules, with regulation. And if this legislation and regulation exists to help us all, it is a fact that sometimes meeting their requirements can be complex, especially in small and medium-sized enterprises.
Tests, forms, processes, procedures, bureaucracy, time consuming and sometimes with errors that cost even more, especially when the focus of the company is on making progress in your business.
That is why we provide the Regulatory Services area, in which we support, in a simplified and transparent way, the companies to comply with the standards that apply to them.
ISQ offers a wide range of regulatory services to help clients to meet their legal obligations as regards quality, environment and people safety, installations and equipment in compliance with the Portuguese and EU legislation and applicable directives.
We provide inspection and testing services of materials, components and products, installations and equipment in buildings, installations and industrial equipment for approval/adoption or to assist in industrial and environmental licensing.
We certify people and we carry out chemical analysis, environmental monitoring, occupational exposure and food safety.
These services are performed by qualified/certified technicians with wide experience and supported by a modern and well equipped network of accredited laboratories and further acknowledged skills through accreditation, notification and/or appointment by government bodies.
A Notified Body (NB) is an independent body providing conformity assessment services (a certification, inspection or testing body), designated by the notifying authority of an EU Member State to perform third-party conformity assessment and to attest the conformity of products (including its design, manufacture and, when applicable, installation and/or maintenance) according to EU New Approach Directives, to guarantee product compliance with safety standards and regulations.
The Notified Body is empowered to conduct the assessment of products to be placed on the EU market and also to provide the manufacturer or his authorized representative established within the EU, with an official Assessment Certificate, thus enabling him to apply a certification mark (CE Mark) to the product and issue a declaration of conformity, as legally required.
ISQ is formally recognised to supply services as Notified Body (NB nr.0028) for the following EU Directives:
ISQ provides conformity assessment services of projects, products, installations, equipment, processes and people, enabling clients to prove their compliance with the legislation, standards and directives.
Among the services provided, we highlight testing and sampling, calibration, inspection and certification.
As a Conformity Assessment Body (CAB), ISQ skills have been formally acknowledged through its accreditation by IPAC (Instituto Português de Acreditação) – the national entity member and signatory of the Mutual Recognition Agreements of EA (European Cooperation for Accreditation), of ILAC (International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation) and IAF (International Accreditation Forum).
The results of the compliance assessment provided by ISQ are also recognised or accepted in the remaining countries that have signed these agreements.
ISQ offers the following accredited compliance assessment services:
IPAC Accreditation Certificate nr. D0004
IPAC Accreditation Certificate nr. I0002
IPAC Accreditation Certificate nr. I0015
IPAC Accreditation Certificate nr. I0023
IPAC Accreditation Certificate nr. I0061
Laboratory for Electrical Equipment – IPAC Accreditation Certificate nr. L0002
Laboratory of Electromagnetic Compatibility – IPAC Accreditation Certificate nr. L0300
Laboratory of Electrical Cables – IPAC Accreditation Certificate nr. L0028
Laboratory for Thermodynamics – IPAC Accreditation Certificate nr. L0178
Laboratory of Non-Destructive Testing – IPAC Accreditation Certificate nr. L0050
Laboratory of Materials – IPAC Accreditation Certificate nr. L0070
Laboratory of Chemistry and Environment – IPAC Accreditation Certificate nr. L0077
Laboratory of Acoustics and Vibration – IPAC Accreditation Certificate nr. L0219
Dimensional Metrology Laboratory – IPAC Accreditation Certificate nr. M0009
Calibration Laboratory for Physic Metrology – IPAC Accreditation Certificate nr. M0046
Calibration Laboratory for Electro-Physic Metrology – IPAC Accreditation Certificate nr. M0059
Physical Testing Laboratory – IPAC Accreditation Certificate nr. L0268
Laboratory for Dimensional Control – IPAC Accreditation Certificate nr. L0342
Laboratory for Clinical and Hospital Equipment – IPAC Accreditation Certificate nr. L0610
Laboratory of Testing and Calibration of Safety Valves – IPAC Accreditation Certificate nr. L0375
LABVOLUME – IPAC Accreditation Certificate nr. L0456, (for metrological verification)
Metrological control of measuring instruments is the part of legal metrology which aim is to guarantee the accuracy of the measurements results within national regulatory limits to ensure the credibility of measurements concerned with trade, tax operations and consumer protection, health and safety, and environmental protection.
A Metrological Verification Body is a non-governamental entity designed by the national authority to perform legal metrological control tasks on his behalf, including testing, examination and marking and/or issuing of a verification certificate attesting the conformity of the measurement instrument with the applicable regulation.
ISQ is qualified and formally designated as metrological verification body by IPQ – Instituto Português da Qualidade – the Portuguese authority for Legal Metrology, member and signatory of the OIML (International Organization of Legal Metrology) and WELMEC (European Cooperation in Legal Metrology) agreements.
In the scope of these designations ISQ provides metrological control services on the following measuring instruments:
ISQ provides certification of welders and welding operators in accordance with international standards, building and construction codes or customer specifications and issuance of certificates recognized in the European region and in many other countries.
ISQ is accredited as Personnel Certification Body according to EN ISO/IEC 17024 for certification of welders and welding operators, brazing operators and operators of welding brazing.
Is also Notified Body for approval of permanent joining personnel in the scope of EU PED Directive (97/23/EC Pressure Equipment).
Qualification of polyethylene welders (butt welds/electro welding) and management of qualification expiry dates.
In accordance with
The applicable types of testing, test procedures and their acceptance criteria are defined in different qualification standards/codes.
Qualifications are there to prove that the person has the necessary level of knowledge to assume tasks and responsibilities in welding, meeting the requirements of the appropriate welding level within the scope of IIW (International Institute of Welding) and by EWF (European Welding Federation) Qualification System.
ISQ is Authorized National Body (ANB) for the award of the EWF qualifications (European Welder, European Welding Engineer and European Welding Specialist) and IIW qualifications (International Welder, International Welding Engineer, International Welding Specialist and International Welding Inspection Personnel).
As Authorized National Body (ANB) ISQ has the authority to approve ATBs (Authorized Trainning Bodies) to conduct training courses for different welding levels from welder to engineer.
The qualification offered are recognized in all IIW/EWF countries.
Currently 43 countries (South Africa, Germany, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Denmark, Egypt, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, United States, Finland, France, Georgia, Greece, Netherlands, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Japan, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Kazakhstan and Ukraine) are involved in the development and implementation of rules and contents of the EWF/IIW Qualification System.
We are a private Portuguese organization with over 50 years’ experience working in engineering, technical and regulatory inspections, training, and R&D and innovation. We work for several benchmark companies and organizations around the world, such as the ESA (European Space Agency) and Big Science projects CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire), ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) and the E-ELT (European Extremely Large Telescope).
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