2025 was a landmark year for TIC Council, marked by meaningful progress across sustainability, digitalisation, safety, and global quality infrastructure.
We actively defended the role of independent third-party assurance in the EU's reformed CSRD, CS3D, Taxonomy, and CBAM frameworks, and completed full documentation for the Sustainability Process Certification scheme — with first certificates expected in 2026. Our Digital Committee expanded its scope to embrace "Tech for TIC", and our third cybersecurity hackathon is now influencing Cyber Resilience Act standards. The AIQI Consortium's AI Quality Infrastructure work received formal recognition in the UK Government's Trusted Third-Party AI Assurance Roadmap.
Globally, we achieved significant milestones: ministerial-level engagement in India, a signed cooperation initiative with the China Inspection and Testing Society, Cabinet-level meetings with three European Commission Directorates-General, and observer status within the Organization of American States.
Our fifth Safety Conference, held in partnership with the American Petroleum Institute, saw a 44% increase in participation. A defining moment for the sector was the merger of IAF and ILAC into the Global Accreditation Cooperation Incorporated — a developement TIC Council will help shape, with our Trade and Accreditation Director, Ileana Martinez, elected to its Executive Committee. The inaugural Quality Infrastructure Roundtable at our TIC Summit in Brussels united accreditation bodies, standards organisations, CABs, and policymakers in a new spirit of cross-community collaboration.
We look forward to building on this momentum in 2026. Read our Annual Report here.