A Certifying Body is any of the individual organizations which issue Recognition or Listing of products. This refers to Recognition of materials of subcomponents and Listing of finished goods [end-products].

There are a few hundred CB; this is obviously a very small sampling.

• CSA – Canada
• BSI – England
• Intertek/ETL – USA and various other countries
• UL – USA
• VDE – Germany
• CQC – China
• TUV – Germany, USA and various other countries

In simple words, any of the companies which issue certification of compliance to industry standards may be a CB.