MANCAP DIVISION

MANCAP is an acronym for (Mandatory Conformity Assessment Programme) it’s a subdivision in the Product Certification Directorate. The division is responsible for ensuring that locally manufactured products in Nigeria give the required degree of satisfaction to consumers through compliance with Government policies on standardization and conformity assessment.

The following activities are domiciled in the MANCAP division:

  1. MANCAP Fast Track
  2. Product Type Certification

For the purpose of this introduction note we shall focus on the e-MANCAP, eProduct type scheme.

ePRODUCT - TYPE CERTIFICATION

Product Type Certification scheme is a conformance certificate activity designed to issue certificate conformance to product meant for export that comply with contractual specification and related documents/import requirements of the destination country or customer’s specification. The scheme applies to specific consignment meant for export by the applicant.

SCOPE

Product Type Certification covers conformity assessment of locally manufactured product strictly meant for export.

Key Requirements:

  1. Visit https://mancap.son.gov.ng
  2. Create an account by registering with FIRS validated Tax Identification Number(TIN)
  3. Sign in to your account with user-email and password with
  4. Fill in the forms and follow the instructions accordingly

e-MANCAP

Electronic MANCAP (e-MANCAP) was designed to streamline certification process for faster and more efficient product certification of MANCAP application.

Key Requirements:
  1. Visit https://mancap.son.gov.ng
  2. Create or an account by registering with FIRS validated Tax Identification Number(TIN)
  3. Sign in to your account with user-email and password with
  4. Fill in the forms and follow the instructions accordingly