Introduction

The activity of Hungarian Standards Institution (MSZT) is based on trustworthiness, competence and experience.
The guarantee of trustworthiness is the Act on standardisation that ensures that

  • the rules of MSZT’s operation are transparent and open for everybody;
  • the conditions of its operation (organisational, financial) are approved by the General Assembly consisting of the members;
  • the Standardisation Board elected by the General Assembly helps and monitors its professional activity;
  • an independent Financial Control Committee checks its financial management;
  • its legal surveillance is provided by the Hungarian Government.

The guarantee of competence

  • approximately 3000 experts from the industry, universities, research and testing institutes who work in nearly 200 standardisation committees;
  • 80 well-qualified auditors working in 39 professional fields;
  • certification systems accredited by Hungarian Accreditation Board (NAT) and Slovak National Accreditation Service (SNAS);
  • full membership in the international (ISO, IEC) and European (CEN, CENELEC, ETSI) standardisation organisations and in IQNet, the International Certification Network;
  • continual training for experts and auditors in training courses recognised on European and national (governmental) level and giving qualification;
  • The Hungarian Standards Institution provides comprehensive certification services for its clients;
  • Our experts provide efficient certification services recognised on national and international level, moreover our organisation ensures continual vocational training for our qualified auditors (70-80 persons).

The guarantee of experience

  • Professional, organising, business and international activity that it has carried out since 1921;
  • Working first as an independent (from 1921 to 1948), later as an administrative body (from 1948 to 1995), after that as an independent organisation again (from1995);
  • Organisational, operational and financial transformation necessary to achievement of the full membership (2003) in the European standardisation organisations that it began in 1990;
  • Practice in verification of conformity to the standard;
  • Accreditation activity carried out until 1995;
  • System certification activity that MSZT has carried out since 1990;
  • Active participation in the international electrical standardisation (IEC) since 1906, in other standardisation activity (ISO) since 1948, in the European standardisation (CEN, CENELEC, ETSI) since 2003, and in the international certification network (IQNet) since1998.

Consequently the certification services of Hungarian Standards Institution are characterised as follows:

  • price proportional to value;
  • auditors with ability for auditing integrated systems;
  • integrated system audit - with additional audit – in case of operating systems;
  • multilingual audit;
  • value added certification;
  • flexible, transparent, simple, customer-tailored management;
  • taking the individual requirements of the clients into consideration;
  • internationally recognised certificate (in 32 countries, in all EU countries) without extra procedure;
  • knowledge, transfer and application of up-to-date information related to the certification (standardisation) activity;
  • customer focus service;
  • employment of auditor with high-levelled competence and great experience.

Other activities

  • joint audits with IQNet members;
  • performing certification activity in Romania via subcontractor UNICERT
  • provision of information on the work of European and international certification bodies and their relations to MSZT;
  • Relation to “ISO 9000 Forum of Hungarian Certified Companies” public organisation.