The EU member states (MS) Germany and Italy and their National Accreditation Bodies (NAB) – the German National Accreditation Body (DAkkS) and the Italian National Accreditation Body (ACCREDIA) - offer their complementary strengths to support Armenia in reaching the goal of further developing its accreditation and conformity assessment system. The German-Italian consortium endorses the proposed strategy in the Twinning Fiche to work in parallel on the legal and procedural framework for accreditation and prioritized accreditation schemes. The MS consortium experts will share up-to-dateknowledge, broad experiences from their home countries and other partner countries (e.g. Eastern Partnership or Western Balkan countries) and integrate their Armenian colleagues in their networks on international level. The Twinning Fiche foresees a realistic budget and time frame for the implementation of the work programme and its objectives. In both components, the consortium will respect an inclusive and evidence-based approach, for which the suggested peer evaluations are a very suitable tool.

1. Support the implementation of the EU-Armenia CEPA with regards to fostering an internationally recognized accreditation and conformity assessment system in Armenia
2. Support ARMNAB in actively participate in EA fulfilling the conditions for associate EA membership. ARMNAB as associate member of EA has not yet applied for EA peer evaluation – the project will provide support to prepare for the fulfilment of the conditions to become an EA bilateral signatory

1. The legal and procedural framework revised with respect to ISO/IEC 17011 and the relevant provisions of EU regulation 765/2008/EC.
2. Enhanced institutional capacity of ARMNAB to provide accreditation in line with the EA rules.
3. Accreditation Schemes for ISO/IEC 17025 and ISO/IEC 17065 are updated and professional capacity is built to ensure their application.