Third party organisation

Announcement

The Certification Body for certification of persons in welding and NDT at the FIRST WELDING COMPANY Inc announces to its customers dealing with welding and non-destructive testing that on proposal of the Office for Standardisation, Metrology and Testing of the Slovak Republic, the FIRST WELDING COMPANY Inc, as SKTC-176 was approved and registered at Brussels as the

Third Party Organisation

for examination of conformity with requirements of EU directive 97/23/EC, see the Supplement No. 1, point 3.1.2, point 1.3.

The list of notified persons is presented on the web page www.normoff.gov.sk [1] testing and technical standardisation, list of notified persons.

This registration assures in full extend issuing of certificates with extended validity (PED) for welders, brazing/soldering operators, for specialists of non-destructive testing for pressure vessels or their parts and for approval of working procedures.