ARCS

The Board Executive on behalf of the Governing Board accepts members into the Scheme. A member is accepted to the Scheme into a membership category. A member may elect with which membership category to be represented. A member may elect to change representation to another membership category by written notification to the Director of Certification at any time during January each year. The Board has without reservation the right of refusal to accept a member to the Scheme.

A member may only be registered with one membership category, with the exception that an individual member of the Registered Assessors membership category may additionally be accepted to represent an organisation in one (and only one) other membership category.

The membership categories comprise

• Accredited Training Providers
• Accredited Training Course Providers
• Registered Assessors
• Assessment/Certification Bodies
• Regional Certification Bodies (IntRSA)
• Country Groups
• Standardisation Bodies
• Standardisation Committees
• Communities of Interest
• User Groups
• Sponsoring Organisations
• Academic Bodies and Institutes
• Government and Public Authorities
• Industry

Registered assessors are automatically accepted as a member of the Scheme.

For each of the following membership categories an applicant member shall be nominated to represent the organisation by the chief executive, director, convener, chair, secretariat, coordinator or other responsible person of the relevant organisation.

• Standardisation Bodies
• Standardisation Committees
• Communities of Interest
• Assessment / Certification Bodies
• User Groups
• Sponsoring Organisations

Communities of interest include such groups as AutomotiveSPICE, MediSPICE, EnterpriseSPICE. Communities of interest may also extend to such communities Lead Appraisers.

For each of the following membership categories the relevant organisation or individual is automatically accepted as a member of the Scheme to the relevant membership category and continues to be a member whilst they remain in the Scheme.

• Accredited Training Providers
• Accredited Training Course Providers
• Registered Assessors

For the Regional Certification Bodies membership category, any IntRSA certification body that has a contract with the Scheme to operate certifications within a region or a sector is accepted as a member of the Scheme to the membership category.

For the Country membership category, any representative organisation of trained assessors that has an associate agreement with the Scheme is accepted as a member of the Scheme to the relevant membership category. Additionally any group of assessors from any Country that has more than 10 (or as otherwise defined by the Board) registered assessors may elect from within the individual registered members of that Country one member to represent it in the membership category.

List of Members

Due to the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Scheme is currently re-verifying acceptance of members for their personal data to be listed on the web site.

New membership applications will be accepted from October 2018