The ITU-T Conformity Database is an informative, voluntary and free of charge tool permitting companies (vendors, manufacturers, service providers) to make a public declaration that their products conform to ITU-T Recommendations. Currently there are rather few ITU-T Recommendations for which test procedures are defined.

Such public declaration may include conformance to standards referenced in the ITU-T Recommendations and produced by other SDOs, Forums and Consortia qualified in accordance with Recommendation ITU-T A.5 or by organizations that signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ITU.

The ITU-T Conformity Database can be accessed and populated both by ITU and non-ITU members. It contains only information submitted directly by companies. Information and details not available in the Conformity Database (e.g. options implemented, test results and others) should be requested directly to the participating companies.

The ITU-T is not participating in any aspects of the accreditation, testing or certification processes and is not in a position to verify the accuracy of the information submitted by the participating companies. However, the criteria put in place to populate a credible Conformity Database give reasonable credentials to the information provided. ITU shall not be held liable or bear any responsibility with regard to the contents and to the use of the Conformity Database but reserves the reject any submission it deems to be false.

Companies will directly populate the conformity database by duly filling in, signing and submitting to conformity@itu.int, a Supplier’s Declaration of Conformity (SDoC) available on-line (one per each product). based on any of the following three “Routes”:

• Route 1: Testing performed in an 1st, 2nd or 3rd party accredited laboratory according to ISO/IEC 17025; or
• Route 2: Test results approved by an Accredited Certification Body (ISO/IEC Guide 65); or
• Route 3: Testing performed in laboratories recognized by an SDOs, Forum or Consortium qualified in accordance with Recommendation ITU-T A.5 or by an Organization having signed an MoU with ITU.

Note 1: Laboratories have to be accredited to carry out the tests used to verify conformance to the ITU-T Recommendation(s) implemented in the product.

Note 2: By default it is assumed that the ITU-T Recommendation selected in Section 3 item 3.1 of the SDoC is the one currently in force. If not, the effective edition in the ITU “MM/YYYY” format will be mentioned in item 3.2 “comments/remarks”.

Note 3: In case that conformity tests are performed against national/regional standards “equivalent” to ITU-T Recommendations, it is requested that:
3.a) the relevant ITU-T Recommendation be listed as usual in Section 3 under 3.1, and
3.b) reference to the “equivalent” standard(s) will be made in Section 3 item “3.2 comments/remarks”

Note 4: If claiming compliance to an ITU-T Recommendation not listed in section 3.1 of the SDoC, please reference it in 3.1 and provide details of test suites used

Note 5: The SDoC form (provided in 6 languages) should be submitted at least in English.