The accreditation provides confidence in competence and integrity to the product compliance assessment activities. An accreditation system must ensure quality, but should not create barriers to trade, Deputy Prime Minister Valeriu Lazar said in the conference “Accreditation supports safe food products and clean drinking water,” Info-Prim Neo reports. Eugenia Spoiala, director of the Accreditation Center for Assessing Products Compliance of Moldova, said one of the major results achieved by the institution this year is the signing of the Agreement on Associate Membership of the European Cooperation for Accreditation. ”The Center makes effort to obtain the recognition at the European and international levels of the results of the standardizing, inspection and certification procedures performed” said Eugenia Spoiala. “When we achieve this objective, the economic entities will no longer have to certify their products in the countries to which they export as the certificates issued by the Center will be recognized.” Deputy Minister of Economy Octavian Calmac presented the new Law on Accreditation and Compliance Assessment, which came into force this year. The law envisions the simplification of the accreditation procedures by creating only one accreditation and product compliance assessment body – the National Accreditation Center, which will be a nonprofit public institution. The provisions of the law meet the European and international requirements and create the platform needed to sign multilateral recognition agreements, which will simplify the export-import procedures.