ARAC organized a Regional Workshop on ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015 and the applicable IAF Mandatory Documents for its Peer evaluators qualified for the evaluation of the Accreditation Bodies of Management System Certification Bodies and the ARAC Accreditation Body members Lead Assessors (Qualified for assessment of MSCB) during the period 31^st May- 02^nd June 2016 in Tunis, Tunisia.

Sixteen ARAC Peer evaluators and ARAC AB Lead Assessors from eight Arab Accreditation Bodies participated at the training workshop.

The objectives of this training are essentially to harmonize the understanding and use of the new version of ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015 and the applicable IAF Mandatory Documents by the ARAC Peer evaluators. In addition to :

1. Improve and share best practices of the assessment of Management System Certification Body,
2. Update the skills of assessment personnel of the accreditation bodies in Arab region,