ISO certification for Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry

The Malta Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry has achieved IS0 9001 certification.

In a statement it said that its firm belief in the importance of quality and quality management was consolidated in the organisation’s acceptance as a member of the European Organisation for Quality last July.

The Malta Chamber is proud to be associated with the leading promoter of quality, as well as extending our European Network through this membership.

Following the Malta Chamber’s acceptance as a member of the European Organisation for Quality it commenced the process of establishing and implementing a Quality Management System (QMS), in accordance with the requirements of ISO 9001:2008

This is designed to provide documented procedures and control mechanisms to assure the quality of the product and/or service.

As part of the QMS, the chamber also started compiling a Quality Manual which was concluded last year. It was then subjected to internal and external audits, the latter by the Malta Standards Authority.

Malta Chamber president Helga Ellul encouraged enterprise to actively embrace Quality Management as one of the Innovation Management tools to enhance their operations.

“Quality management is important for all enterprises, irrespective of the sector that they are operating in, in particular by those enterprises that would like to invest in Research & Development and those that intend to internationalise,” she said.

She said that the Malta Chamber holds quality management standards in very high regard as it considers them a main pillar of competitiveness and readiness to internationalise.

“This point was brought out clearly by Minister Tonio Fenech at our Internationalisation conference last October and again during his budget speech when he singled out our Chamber for its efforts in both areas of franchise and quality,” she said.