Conformity Assessment Bodies - Inspection Bodies

TÜV NORD offers a wide range of inspection, assessment and certification services for operators, manufacturers and suppliers.  

With our inspection, assessment and certification bodies we provide services according to national (NNTR) and European guidelines (TSI, CSM). 

The inspection body SEELAB, based at TÜV NORD, is accredited by the Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle GmbH (DAkkS) as a type A inspection body according to DIN EN ISO/IEC 17020:2012.

Our comprehensive accreditation in the field of railway technology includes, in addition to inspection according to individual standards, inspection according to the "Technical Specifications for Interoperability" (TSI) as well as independent safety assessment according to the European Regulation (EU) 402/2013 ("CSM VO"). This enables us to carry out comprehensive inspections in many railway-related areas.

TÜV NORD is accredited by the German Federal Railway Authority as an Independent Assessment Body in accordance with the Implementing Regulation (EU) 402/2013 ("CSM RA"). Based on this accreditation, TÜV NORD is authorized as a type A inspection body to carry out independent assessments for the subsystem "rolling stock" (in the technical area of CCS restricted to "integration into the vehicle")

TÜV NORD is recognized in Denmark as a Designated Body by the Danish Transport Authority (Trafikstyrelsen). The recognition includes conformity assessments according to Notified National Technical Rules (NNTR).

Through TÜV NORD LUXEMBOURG S.à r.l., EC conformity assessments can be carried out in the railway sector according to the Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSI). The EC conformity assessments are performed in accordance with the European "Interoperability Directive" (EU) 2016/797 in the structural subsystems:

• Rolling stock
• Infrastructure
• Control Command and Signalling (CCS)
• Energy

Based on the accreditation as certification body according to DIN EN ISO/IEC 17065 by the German Accreditation Body DAkkS, TÜV NORD LUXEMBOURG S.à r.l. is recognised as a Notified Body Railway Interoperability (NoBo; organisme notifié).

In addition, TÜV NORD LUXEMBOURG S.à r.l. is recognised as a Designated Body (DeBo; organsime compétent) by the Administration des Chemins de Fer in Luxembourg for conformity assessments according to the notified national technical rules in Luxembourg.

SEECERT is accredited by the German Accreditation Body DAkkS as a certification body for products, processes and services in the areas of functional safety, railway technology, fire protection and power plant control technology for the certification of safety, quality and reliability of hardware, software, hardware-software systems, processes and material in accordance with DIN EN ISO/IEC 17065 (accreditation number: D-ZE-11074-01).

• We issue certificates for safety, quality and reliability for our customers as Safety Approved, Safety Approved SEooC, Approved Material, Trusted Tool, Trusted Process, FSM.
• Their products are complex, as are the development and manufacturing processes for their production. Accordingly, it is difficult for manufacturers to make the safety and quality of their products transparent, and for users to determine the safety and quality.
• Through its certificates, SEECERT confirms the safety, quality and reliability of your software, hardware, materials or processes.
• Manufacturers have an additional sales argument and the users have the assurance of using high-quality products.
• The basis of the work of the certification body SEECERT is the absolute protection of confidentiality of the information disclosed during certification. Only this way it is  possible to simultaneously work on competing products or systems that are subject to confidentiality.

With the establishment of the SEECERT certification body in TÜV NORD Systems GmbH & Co. KG (TNS), the TNS's financial resources are available to the certification body. The TNS is based on the results of the entirety of its business activities, which also includes the activities of the certification body.