SASO is the Saudi Standards, Metrology and Quality Organization (the competent authority), and SABER is the electronic certification platform it launched. Since 2019, the original SASO certification has been fully migrated to the SABER platform for processing, so what is now called "applying for Saudi certification" is actually "applying for PC and SC certificates on SABER." SASO governs standards and regulations, while SABER governs the certification issuance process.
The old version of the SASO CoC certificate has ceased to be issued. If a supplier still provides a SASO certificate from before 2019, it is necessary to confirm whether it has been replaced by the SABER system.
Shuwang engineers have run this category often enough to know the bottleneck is usually the paperwork before submission, not the lab.
Prepared by the Shuwang certification engineering team from live project records.
Service boundary: Shuwang Certification Platform is an export certification solution provider. It does not perform testing and is not a certification body. Testing described on this page is carried out by partner laboratories accredited to CNAS/CMA or ISO/IEC 17025; certificates are issued by EU Notified Bodies or by the authorised bodies of the destination country. Lead times and cost ranges are public industry references and depend on engineer assessment and body scheduling.