To ensure that its natural accreditation body members only natural accredit bodies that are competent to do the work they undertake and are not subject to conflicts of interest and of the i-NAF is to establish mutual recognition arrangements, known as Multilateral Recognition Arrangements (MLA), between its natural accreditation body members which reduces risk to business and its customers by ensuring that an natural accredited certificate may be relied upon anywhere in the world.

The MLA contributes to the freedom of world natural trade by eliminating technical barriers to trade. i-NAF works to find the most effective way of achieving a single system that will allow companies with an natural accredited conformity assessment certificate in one part of the world, to have that certificate recognised else where in the world. The objective of the MLA is that it will cover all accreditation bodies in all countries in the world, thus eliminating the need for suppliers of products or services to be certified in each country where they sell their products or services.