IAAC’s mission is to promote cooperation among accreditation bodies and interested parties of the Americas, aiming at the development of conformity assessment structures to achieve the improvement of products, processes, and services. IAAC was created in 1996, in Montevideo, Uruguay, and was incorporated in Mexico in 2001 as a civil association according to Mexican law. IAAC is a not-for-profit body that functions on the basis of cooperation by its members and interested parties. IAAC obtains resources from membership fees and voluntary contributions of its members.