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Why choose NF products or services?
With the NF mark you are offering your customers high quality
products or services.
These products and services are regularly checked by an organisation
within the NF
network to ensure that the level of quality and service remains
consistent.
In the event of a dispute, AFNOR Certification takes the necessary steps with regard to
the manufacturers or service providers and the relevant courts.
So always ask for NF!
The NF mark offers impartial proof of the quality and
high performance of products and services. With a 85% awareness
rate, the NF mark is the leading product certification mark in
France. It is also well known in Europe.
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Supporting figures
250 certification reference systems
5400 mark holder companies
Several tens of thousands of products and services certified
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What is the NF mark?
The NF mark is certification mark. It gives your customers indisputable
proof that certified products or services meet their needs and comply
with safety and/or quality characteristics defined within the corresponding
certification reference system.
This reference system comprises:
French, European or international standards produced in collaboration
with manufacturers, users, distributors, consumer associations,
laboratories and public authorities,
Additional specifications relating to the product or service
and the company's quality organisation, contained in certification
regulations specific to each product or service.
The certification reference systems are established in collaboration
with all the players concerned: manufacturers or service providers,
professional organisations, consumers, public authorities, technical
organisations, and so on.
Who issues the NF mark?
AFNOR Certification
calls on and combines the scientific and technical know-how of many
general or specialist organisations, who take part in certification
development and management. These organisations are known as the
NF mark's
network.
As the leader of a network of expertise, AFNOR Certification depends, for the NF mark, on structures
such as:
Authorised
organisations entrusted with performing all the certification
operations leading to the issuing of NF marks,
Technical
secretariats, to whom parts of the certification process are
sub-contracted,
Testing
and analysis laboratories and specialist inspection and auditing
organisations.
In this way, more than 50 organisations are able to contribute
their know-how and expertise.
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