Rwanda Bureau of Standards (RBS) offers both product and systems certification services. The product certification marks include the Standardization Mark and the Mark of Excellence whereas the system certification includes Quality Management System, the Environmental Management Systems, and the Food Safety Management Systems marks. In this regard, the Bureau unveils marks that are used to testify certification of a given system or product. On November 19^th, 2010 RBS is officially launching Quality Marks including: the Quality Management Systems, the Environmental Management Systems, the Food Safety Management Systems and the Standardization Mark.

Systems certification:

ISO 9001 Quality Management System




ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems

  

ISO 22000 and HACCP on Food Safety Management System




STANDARDISATION MARK

  

Is issued for use on products that comply with the minimum product specifications prescribed in Rwanda Standards. It uses standards as a benchmark for quality compliance and aims at giving manufactures improved market access and also giving consumers an assurance of quality for the products bearing the mark.

The Standardization mark also referred to as S-Mark is currently a voluntary mark in Rwanda.

It can be applied on locally manufactured products complying with the relevant standards.

A manufacture can acquire a standardization mark on application, once it is established that the product complies with the relevant standards, and that the manufacturing process can consistently manufacture similar products. This is confirmed through different interval audits conducted at the producers' premises.

Apart from the above-mentioned marks, it is important to note that the RBS Mark of Excellence has already been launched and is being used by business operators whose products proved worthiness.