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The notified accredited conformity assessment body may subcontract specific tasks connected with the conformity assessment, has to ensure that the subcontractor meets the same requirements that are applicable to the notified accredited body itself and may subcontract specific activities only with the agreement of the client (274).Thus, structures where the head office of the candidate-accredited body in the Member State of notification consists of very few staff performing only commercial tasks but none of the conformity assessment tasks for which the body is (to be) notified would be carried out in that Member State cannot be accepted. The multi-site accreditation is however only permitted under the Regulation if the accredited conformity assessment body maintains the final responsibility for the activities performed by local sites covered by the scope of the multi-site accreditation. The accreditation certificate issued by the national accreditation body where the head office is established names one legal entity - the head office - and it is this legal entity which holds the accreditation and which is responsible for the accredited activities of the conformity assessment body, including any activity performed by the local site that forms part of the scope of the accreditation. Where these local sites carry out key activities, then the accreditation certificate (in its annexes) has to clearly identify the address of these site offices.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.