1. CA/B Forum Meeting – June 7th, 2018
London
News from the Council of Accredited
Conformity Assessment Bodies (ACAB-c)

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Voluntary
Membership
Accredited Conformity Assessment Bodies:
Conformity assessment bodies (CABs) accredited by
a EA or IAF member according to ISO/IEC 17065 +
eIDAS Art. 3 No. 18 scope of accreditation in the area
of electronic identification and trust services for
electronic transactions
Supporting Parties:
Organization who are directly or indirectly affected
by accredited CABs and their work: trust service
provider (TSP), supervisory bodies (SB), European
Standards Organizations (ESO), the CA/B-Forum and
manufacturers of technical equipment used by TSP.
ACAB’Council

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Council of ISO/IEC 17065 accredited CABs
• Setup and maintain an ACAB’c “Code of Conduct”
• Information exchange
• Interpretation of standards
• Communication to third parties
• Publish a list of member CABs
• Provide a recognition mark
Main
Objectives
ACAB’Council

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Philippe Bouchet – Chairman
Matthias Wiedenhorst – Vice Chairman
Armelle Trotin – General secretary
Board
ACAB’Council

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Upcoming:
July 5th, 2018 – Zürich, Switzerland
• ~20 participants (expected)
• ~5 new member applications to be approved
• represented countries: France, Germany, Austria,
Switzerland, Spain Portugal,
• Setup of Working Groups
• Further topics: new ETSI Standards, FESA dialogue, ETSI
liaison, registration of ACAB-c logo
Meetings
ACAB’Council

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• Approved at ACAB’c meeting in February
• Presented at Washington F2F in March
• Fulfills all requirements of the Draft
ETSI TS 119 403-2
• Available to all ACAB’c member CAB’s
Harmonized ETSI Audit Attestation – Follow up

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• Enabled for Automated Audit Letter
Validation
• Testing has been performed and worked
well (thanks to Gordon for kind support)
Harmonized ETSI Audit Attestation – Follow up

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• Released End of April 2018
• ETSI EN 319 401, V2.2.1 (2018-04)
• ETSI EN 319 411-1, V1.2.2 (2018-04)
• ETSI EN 319 411-2, V2.2.2 (2018-04)
• Auditors are encouraged to switch to the latest version
• Former version remain active and may still be used
New versions of ETSI standards

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• Defines minimum content requirements on Audit Attestation Letters
issued as result of a positive ETSI audit.
• Regarded as very helpful to improve reporting quality.
• Does not place any layout restrictions, hence non-ACAB‘c attestations
might still be very „individual“.
• ACAB-c template fulfils all requirements of Draft ETSI TS 119 403-2
Draft ETSI TS 119 403-2
„CAB auditing against CABF requirements“

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Monika Radziewicz-Lepczyńska
TUV Informationstechnik GmbH
TUV NORD GROUP
M.Radziewicz@tuvit.de
Contact

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The Accredited Conformity Assessment Bodies’
council
65, rue de Gergovie
75014 Paris – France
Secretariat Armelle Trotin + 33 (0)6 08 67 51 44
secretary@acab-c.com
For further information or in order to register, please contact us at:
www.acab-c.com