There’s a new ISO/IEC 17065, “Conformity assessment – Requirements for bodies certifying products, processes and services,” and it’s available now from Document Center Inc. This 34-page first edition of ISO/IEC 17065 cancels and replaces ISO/IEC Guide 65:1996, which has been technically revised.
The overall aim of certifying products, processes or services is to give confidence to all interested parties that a product, process or service fulfills specified requirements. The value of certification is the degree of confidence and trust that is established by an impartial and competent demonstration of fulfillment of specified requirements by a third party. Interested parties can expect or require the certification body to meet all the requirements of ISO/IEC 17065:2012 as well as, when relevant, those of the certification scheme itself.
The following major changes have been made compared with ISO/IEC Guide 65:1996, “General requirements for bodies operating product certification systems:”
- restructuring of this International Standard based on the common structure adopted by ISO/CASCO,
- modifications based on ISO/PAS 17001, ISO/PAS 17002, ISO/PAS 17003, ISO/PAS 17004 and ISO/PAS 17005,
- introduction of the ISO/IEC 17000 functional approach in the process requirements of Clause 7,
- information on the application of this International Standard for processes and services in Annex B,
- revision of the terms and definitions in Clause 3,
- improvement of the impartiality requirements (mechanism),
- consolidation of the management system requirements in Clause 8,
- inclusion of principles for product certification bodies and their activities in Annex A,
- improvement by taking into account IAF GD 5:2006 “Guidance on ISO/IEC Guide 65:1996,” and
- inclusion of a reference to certification schemes, for which further information is provided in ISO/IEC 17067, “Conformity assessment — Fundamentals of product certification and guidelines for product certification schemes,” which is currently under development.
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