NA 176

DIN Standards Committee Health Technologies

Standards [CURRENT]

DIN EN ISO/IEC 17021-1
Conformity assessment - Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of management systems - Part 1: Requirements (ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015); German and English version EN ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015

Title (German)

Konformitätsbewertung - Anforderungen an Stellen, die Managementsysteme auditieren und zertifizieren - Teil 1: Anforderungen (ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015); Deutsche und Englische Fassung EN ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015

Overview

This part of ISO/IEC 17021 specifies requirements for bodies providing audit and certification. This standard contains principles and requirements for the competence, consistency and impartiality of bodies providing audit and certification of all types of management system. It gives generic requirements for such bodies performing audit and certification in the field of quality, the environment and other types of management systems. Such bodies are referred to as certification bodies. Observance of these requirements is intended to ensure that certification bodies operate management system certification in a competent, consistent and impartial manner, thereby facilitating the recognition of such bodies and the acceptance of their certifications on a national and international basis. This part of ISO/IEC 17021 is applicable to the auditioning and certification of any type of management system. Regarding the German collaboration NA 147-00-03-21 UA "Zertifizierung von Managementsystemen" ("Management system certification"), a subcommittee of Working Committee NA 147-00-03 AA "Zertifizierungsgrundlagen (Grundlagen zur Konformitätsbewertung)" ("Basic principles for certification (Basic principles for conformity assessment)") at DIN Standards Committee Quality Management, Statistics and Certification (NQSZ).

Document: references other documents

Document: referenced in other documents

Responsible national committee

NA 147-00-03-21 AK - Management system certification  

Responsible european committee

CEN/CLC/JTC 1 - Criteria for conformity assessment bodies  

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