Acceptance as a member-test

The company must provide evidence of a permanent office with its own rooms, regular office hours and adequate infrastructure, and it must have operated for at least 5 years exclusively as a language service. Companies which have not been in existence for that period of time may, at the discretion of the Committee, be accepted as candidates for membership.

Your staff members and freelance employees also have the necessary qualification for their respective areas of activity.

The company must be in a position to offer a clearly defined range of services using its own resources. The company must demonstrate that it is actually able to carry out the processes and work with the products advertised in that range of services.

It has the necessary know-how for the processes and products offered and can prove this.

The company must provide a description of how it carries out quality management. The minimum requirement of this description is to document that the company does not merely act as a broker of services and products, but is also a technically competent company with its own personnel and infrastructure resources and is itself responsible for meeting quality requirements according to today’s standards. Alternatively, proof of a quality management system can be provided via a QSD audit. For companies that are already certified according to DIN EN ISO 9001:2008, the submission of a copy of the certification document is sufficient.

Does your company operate in accordance with ISO 17100 or any other ISO standard?

If so, is your company

a) registered in accordance with this norm?

b) or certified in accordance with this norm?