The company

Business principles

Together, we can accomplish our tasks, reach our goals and discover new ones
Cooperation	Teamwork and ambitions help to satisfy our company‘s co-operative and consequent way of pursuing objectives.
Cooperation	Global mutual recognition of work results from accreditation and certification bodies is what we work for.
Cooperation	All technology we use meets modern and high-quality standards.

Our philosophy

We consider ourselves to be service providers for state, economy and industry. We are working in order to contribute to an internationally standardized system for the assessment of management systems and persons.

Our goal

We are aiming at an overall acceptance of accreditation, certification and inspection results.

Our business objective

It is our business objective to secure high quality and the reliability of our services.

Only if we manage to satisfy our customers, our employees and all other interested parties, we may enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the TGA.

Customer orientation

The satisfaction of our direct customers - the certification bodies - has an immediate impact on our success. We are determined in aligning our activities with our customers‘ needs.

We always keep in mind the success of our indirect customers - the customers of the certification bodies. Their needs are the guideline for our activities.

The quality of all norms and standards significant to our work is important for the benefit of customers. The TGA commissions its influence to a user-oriented design of standards and regulations.

Employee satisfaction

Our employees are the key to our success. The ambition to acquire more knowledge and know-how is encouraged by our company.

There is manifold exchange between our employees. A healthy existence and development can only be secured as long as all participants are under the impression of fair interplay.

The results of our competence are characterized by motivation and stimulation. They add to the comfortable atmosphere in our team.

History

1990:	The TGA joint-venture for accreditation was founded on August 1^st in Cologne. Managing Director: Andreas Theuer (solicitor)

1992:	Dr. Thomas Facklam becomes new Managing Director on September 4^th.

2000:	On December 18^th, the association‘s domicile is changed from Cologne to Frankfurt. →

2005:	Change of name to TGA - Tr�gergemeinschaft f�r Akkreditierung German Association for Accreditation GmbH on January 27^th.
2009:	DACH, DAP und TGA GmbH joined to DGA GmbH on September 1^st.