HECTOS - Harmonized Evaluation, Certification and Testing Of Security products - D1.3 Evaluation and certification requirements

HECTOS is an EU FP7 security research project that is exploring the issue that there are very few test, evaluation and certification procedures in Europe for physical security products that are mutually recognized by different Member States. As pointed out in the EC Communication on Security Industrial Policy, this leads to fragmentation of the market, with negative impacts on both suppliers and users.
HECTOS will identify mechanisms to evaluate the performance of security products, as well as compliance with interoperability, regulatory, ethical, privacy and other requirements. The project will develop elements for a roadmap for the development of new harmonised product certification schemes.
This report provides an overview of the current evaluation and certification schemes for physical security products. The overview is made for some European countries (driven by the consortium composition) and occasionally the situation in the Unites States is discussed. It also includes approaches that already take some steps towards harmonization of E&C schemes, like for example EFSG and Keymark, and the guidelines on certification schemes presented in ISO/IEC 17067.
Since accreditation provides the authoritative statement of the technical competence of conformity assessment bodies, and is therefore important for a harmonised evaluation and certification approach, the European accreditation framework is also described in this deliverable. Finally, some evaluation and certification schemes outside the security domain are given as well since these provide interesting elements that can also be used for the HECTOS harmonised approached.