Version 16 – April 2024

The Standards Council of Canada (SCC) is a federal Crown corporation established by the Standards Council of Canada Act (“the Act”) of the Parliament in 1970 to foster and promote efficient and effective voluntary standardization in Canada.  SCC carries out its mandate by (as per the Act):

• “Accrediting, in accordance with criteria and procedures adopted by the Council, organizations in Canada or in a designated country that are engaged in conformity assessment, and maintaining a record of those accredited organizations and of their marks of conformity”; and,
• “Accrediting, in accordance with criteria and procedures adopted by the Council, organizations in Canada that are engaged in