Euro Veritas who are accredited to ISO/IEC 17020, Conformity assessment – Requirements for the operation of various types of bodies performing inspection, by BAR-UK.
Euro Veritas who are accredited to ISO/IEC 17065, Conformity assessment – Requirements for bodies certifying products, processes and services; by BAR-UK.
Euro Veritas that are accredited to ISO/IEC 17024, Conformity assessment – General requirements for bodies operating certification of persons.
As ISO does not perform certification, Organizations looking to get certified to an ISO standard must contact an independent certification body like Euro Veritas, which is accreditated by BAR-UK.
Euro Veritas has implemented a system compliant with the requirements of ISO 17021 for system Certifications and has henceforth been accreditated from BAR-UK. View Accreditation Certificate.
Euro Veritas has implemented a system compliant with the requirements of ISO 17020 as an Inspection Body and has henceforth been accreditated from BAR-UK. View Accreditation Certificate.
Euro Veritas has implemented a system compliant with the requirements of ISO 17065 as an Product Certification agency and has henceforth been accreditated from BAR-UK. View Accreditation Certificate.
Euro Veritas has implemented a system compliant with the requirements of ISO 17024 as a Personnel Certification Body and has henceforth been accreditated from BAR-UK. View Accreditation Certificate.
About ISO 17021
ISO/IEC 17021:2011, Conformity assessment – Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of management systems, is intended to increase trust in certificates issued attesting conformity to management system standards (MSS) such as ISO 9001 (quality management), ISO 14001 (environmental management), ISO 22000 (food safety management) etc. For a complete list, please see the page “Accreditation Schemes”. Certificates to these and other MSS are widely used in global markets to establish confidence between business partners and between organizations and their customers, to qualify suppliers in supply chains, and as a requirement to tender for procurement contracts.
The first edition, published in 2006, named six principles that inspire confidence: impartiality, competence, responsibility, openness, confidentiality, and complaint handling. These principles then formed the basis for specific requirements given in the standard.
The new edition retains these principles and requirements, but adds new requirements developed in response to market feedback on the use of the first edition. The new requirements provided in ISO/IEC 17021:2011 relate to the competence of the auditors who carry out certification and to the way in which they are managed and deployed.
Certification bodies that use the new edition will be able to ensure competent audit teams, with adequate resources, following a consistent process and reporting audit results in a consistent manner.
Observance of the standard’s requirements is intended to ensure that certification bodies operate competently, consistently and impartially, so facilitating the recognition of such bodies and the acceptance of their certifications both nationally and internationally. ISO/IEC 17021 will therefore serve as a foundation for facilitating the recognition of management system certification in the interests of international trade.
The requirements of the 2006 edition have not been changed except where they contradict those of the 2011 edition. ISO/IEC 17021 is also being published in an unofficial marked-up edition highlighting the new and deleted text. The new edition is to be reviewed one year after it has been in use to decide whether any first edition requirements need modifying to align them further with the new requirements.
Euro Veritas has implemented a system compliant with the requirements of ISO 17021 and has henceforth been accreditated from BAR-UK.
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