The Center has opened applications for the 2027 certification cycle, inviting qualified organisations across all six member states to be listed as certified assessors. The listing is what connects an assessor to the factories that need one: it is the register the Center works from when a manufacturer asks for a maturity assessment.
Applicants are asked for their sector coverage, the standards they assess against and the countries they can work in. There is no fee. Applications close at the end of the calendar year, and organisations already listed do not need to reapply.
The cycle exists because assessment capacity is the constraint on everything downstream. A benchmark is only as good as the number of factories that have been measured, and every national target in the region depends on that number growing.