The Road and Bridge Research Institute (IBDiM) is a product certification body accredited by the Polish Centre for Accreditation. Current Certificate of Accreditation No. AC 052, dated 19.07.2021, confirms that the certification body meets the requirements of PN-EN ISO/IEC 17065:2013-03 “Conformity assessment. Requirements for certification bodies certifying products, processes and services”.
The IBDiM was first accredited as a product certification body in 1998, at which time the accreditation body was the Polish Centre for Testing and Certification. Until 2015 the basis for accreditation was the PN-EN 45011:2000 standard “General requirements for bodies operating product certification systems”.
The IBDiM conducts certification of products for compliance with the requirements of standards and national technical evaluations. Certification is carried out in the mandatory area - in systems of assessment and verification of constancy of performance 1, 1+ and 2+.
The Road and Bridge Research Institute in 2014 was notified to the European Commission as a product certification body. The IBDiM was entered in the NANDO database under the number 2219. The notification applies to activities including both product conformity certification and FPC certification.
The current scope of the product certification body's notification includes: road safety devices (road restraint systems and fixed vertical road signs) and road construction products (asphalts and asphalt binders).