EN ISO/IEC 17065:2012
Requirements For Bodies Certifying Products, Processes And Services.
ISO/IEC 17065:2012 is an international standard that comprises of accreditatiton conditions of institutions that want to certificate all kind of product, process and services availability. ISO/IEC 17065 standard specifies the conditions that provide certification institutions applicants reliable, consistent and comparable such as ISO/IEC 17021, ISO/IEC 17024 accreditation standards.
ISO/IEC 17065 standard provides to make the certification institutions and third party certifications systems consistent and reliable. And so it specifies necessary rules to improve both national and international trade.
It enables that certification programmes that are applied by accreditated, examined institutions according to ISO/IEC 17065 can be agreeable both at the national and international level.
Accreditation needs consistency, stability, trust and voluntariness. It means authorisation. It gives the right of use of institution’s own logo and authority.
It needs to found the management system, document and apply within the frame of general conditions where the certification institution candidates can be examined before the application to accreditate accroding to ISO/IEC 17065:2012 standard.