The phrase "ability to certify" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's qualifications or capacity to provide certification in a specific field or context.
Example: "The candidate demonstrated the ability to certify the quality of the products according to industry standards."
Alternatives: "capacity to certify" or "competence to certify".
The United States wants its exporters to have the ability to certify that maize is non-GM, but the EU refuses to give up its own testing regime.Public opinion in the EU is firmly against imports of GM foods.
The present over-reliance on the system's ability to certify could be usefully remedied if greater attention is paid to the individual product specification design.
"If a court decides the freedmen descendants can vote we will have the ability to certify the election," Election Commission chairwoman Susan Plumb said.
As they detailed in a paper published in The Journal of Cryptology, the ability to certify when a document was created or last modified is crucial for resolving things like intellectual property rights.
iPhone 3G includes new business capabilities, including access to corporate e-mail and intranets, as well as the ability to certify mobile business applications to suit the needs of an array of industries, ranging from health care and real estate to higher education and financial services.
We hope to certify the manufacturing ability and practicability, and also to extract necessary subjects for developing a field level power cable.
Parents or primary caregivers may be appropriate to certify the acquisition of certain abilities.
Similarly, given the ability to use alternative measures under the current law, there should be no need to certify the inquest simply because of the need "to protect the safety of a witness or other person".
Even so, the schedule to certify the most advanced model from Westinghouse, a unit of Toshiba, has slipped during an ongoing review of its ability to withstand the impact of an airliner.
Twitter announces plans to certify third-party apps for businesses.
(Several of the states have yet to certify their results).
