Verified against primary sources as of 21 August 2026. Laws and figures change — confirm current requirements before relying on this page.
Taiwan: 4 verified country-layer records — legal permit (1), mandatory scheme (1), conditional requirement (2). 1 accreditation body is listed for this jurisdiction. Each record below carries its legal instrument, who it binds, and the date it was last verified against its primary source.
- Records
- 4
- Accreditation bodies
- 1
National accreditation
Mandatory and regulatory records
Verified from primary sources, grouped by how binding each one is. None of these is a certificate; each carries the instrument it comes from and the date it was last checked.
Legal permit
Mandatory scheme
Conditional requirement
How this jurisdiction is structured
TAF is a commissioned foundation, not a statutory body
The Taiwan Accreditation Foundation (TAF) was founded 17 September 2003 by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), merging the former Chinese National Laboratory Accreditation (CNLA) and Chinese National Accreditation Board (CNAB). It is a foundation, funded by MOEA and public/private enterprises — not a public body created by statute. The Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection (BSMI) commissioned TAF to carry out an "Implementation and Development Project of Accreditation System."
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TAF joined Global ACI on 23 October 2025
TAF's own announcement: "TAF's signatory status under the IAF Multilateral Recognition Arrangement (MLA) and the ILAC Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA) remains valid" under the transition to Global Accreditation Cooperation Incorporated. International registries list Taiwan under the economy name "Chinese Taipei," not "Taiwan" — searching a registry for "Taiwan" may return nothing.
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Find a TAF-accredited facility
TAF's directory (no login required) is organised by scheme — testing and calibration laboratories, medical laboratories, inspection bodies, product and management-system certification bodies, and more — plus separate lists of suspended and withdrawn accreditations.
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BSMI runs standardisation, metrology and product certification/inspection
The Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection (BSMI), under the Ministry of Economic Affairs, has three distinct functions: standardisation (it develops and maintains the Chinese National Standards, CNS), metrology (legal and scientific measurement, National Measurement Standards Laboratories), and product certification and inspection (mandatory inspection plus voluntary certification). CNS is a standard series, not a mandatory conformity mark by itself — the mark a covered product must carry is the Commodity Inspection Mark, not "the CNS mark."
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Employer's general duty — Occupational Safety and Health Act
The Occupational Safety and Health Act, Art. 4: "The Act applies to all industries" — its scope is the widest of any record on this hub. Art. 5: work assigned to workers must be "within a reasonable and feasible scope, with necessary preventative equipment or measures taken to prevent occupational accidents." Art. 6(1) requires safety and health measures against 14 named categories of workplace hazard; Art. 6(2) additionally requires measures against repetitive-strain injury, abnormal-workload illness, unlawful physical or psychological assault, and emergency protection — workplace-violence prevention sitting inside the general framework law is distinctive to Taiwan's regime. Art. 23 requires larger employers to set up a safety and health management system. The Ministry of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) enforces the Act.
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