The Governments of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) approved the establishment of the Gulf Accreditation Centre, in order to provide reliable services to destinations conformity assessment of laboratories and points of inspection and certification bodies in all Member States, including supporting the GCC joint action and to facilitate trade and to support the industry and the national economy in the Member States and support the implementation of the legislative system Gulf to adjust the products in the Gulf market and the application of procedures and rules of conformity in the Member States the center.

The establishment of the Gulf Accreditation Centre had been founded after the study made by the Organization of JAS-ANZ which was provided by the Australian NATA during the period from 2005 to 2010. The Gulf Accreditation Centre was able to set the documents, procedures and provide training for the experts, in addition to supporting the committees and task forces at the Gulf area to work and follow up with different projects and to review the three phases of the outputs of the technical consultations.

The center has been able to obtain international recognition of international and regional organizations in June 2016, a major achievement aims to enhance quality infrastructure of the governments of the Gulf Cooperation Council Member States and the Republic of Yemen and to cover the needs of the Member States to develop all documents and work procedures; and to qualify technical assessors, quality assessors, and conformity team leaders.