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The implementation of the European Union’s (EU) recast Drinking Water Directive (DWD) on 1 January 2027 marks important changes for manufacturers in the drinking water sector. Any new products you place on the EU market as a manufacturer will have to comply with new requirements. And while the Directive does not explicitly address pre-products, they are in many cases the best place to start. In this article, we explain why, while also discussing how your company can prepare for the changes ahead.

The question your organization needs to ask isn't whether it will face a cyber-attack, but when. That's why more and more companies are investing in information security and cyber resilience. That’s where two international standards come in: ISO 27001 for information security and ISO 22301 for business continuity. In this article, Henk-Willem Mutsaers, Lead Auditor at Kiwa, explains how the two standards reinforce each other and why combining them can help you build broader organizational resilience than either one on its own.

If your company wants to reduce its environmental footprint, raise efficiency levels, and show customers, partners, and other stakeholders that you are responsible and compliant, working toward ISO 14001 is a great step. And with the recently published revision, ISO 14001:2026, it's the perfect time to engage with this popular environmental management system (EMS). Adopting any EMS or standard in your company can be a challenging task, and it's no different with ISO 14001:2026. To help answer your questions, we spoke to Richard Walsh, Principal Assessor for Environment and Energy at NQA, a Kiwa company, about ISO 14001.

Learn more about the ISO 14001:2026 updates, transition deadlines, and environmental management best practices to strengthen sustainability and compliance.

Discover more about the Fenix Project: a vast photovoltaic plant in Sicily, Italy, developed by Iberdrola Italia, and the largest of its kind currently in operation in the country.

Changing your MDR EU Notified Body or ISO 13485 Certification Body can be complex, time-critical, and risky if not managed carefully. With our Seamless Transfer Program, Kiwa Assurance (NB 1912) supports medical device manufacturers in transferring with confidence—ensuring full control over timelines, certification continuity, and communication.

At our recent RAPS session in Lisbon, one message clearly emerged: under MDR (EU) 2017/745, clinical evidence is a continuous lifecycle process that depends on the strength of the entire ecosystem.

Without water, we couldn’t survive. Ensuring that drinking water is safe, through testing, inspection, and certification, has been part of Kiwa's mission from the very beginning. We spoke to Dirkjan van den Berg, Senior Expert Hygienic Aspects at Kiwa, about the new directive, Kiwa’s long history with water, and why that history matters more than ever today.

Discover how Vestas Offshore Wind Belgium implemented Vinçotte - a Kiwa company’s Digi-Tags solution to optimize and simplify the statutory inspection process across its wind farm operations.

Discover how internationally recognized management system standards helped support quality, security, sustainability and continuous improvement in the Digital Realty client case.

Know more about a joint development project between Kiwa Sweden and a wind power industry operator. The aim was to develop and validate methods for assessing the potential life extension of wind turbine towers and foundations across several wind farms, with a focus on data-driven analyses and more efficient approaches for future lifetime assessments.

As floating wind technology moves into deeper waters, Kiwa Portugal offers full lifecycle support — from design and installation through to operations and decommissioning.

New European regulations are raising the bar for energy management. Find out how ISO 50001 can help your organization stay compliant, reduce costs and continuously improve.

Keeping food safe along the entire supply chain is the theme of World Food Safety Day 2026: "From burden to solutions — safe food everywhere". Marked on June 7 and led jointly by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, the theme puts a spotlight on the necessity of raising food safety standards across the world.

HortaPronta is a Portuguese horticultural producer that has maintained a close partnership with Kiwa for over 20 years, following a shared journey focused on food safety certification, continuous process improvement and compliance with the requirements of both national and international markets.

In recent years, the battery industry has been moving through a period of rapid transformation. Increasing demand for electric vehicles, energy storage and light transport has not only driven innovation, but also pushed sustainability, transparency and responsible sourcing to the forefront of regulatory expectations. Against this backdrop, the European Union introduced the Battery Regulation (EU 2023/1542): a comprehensive framework designed to ensure that every battery placed on the EU market contributes to a more transparent and circular economy.