ICS 03.120.20                          CMD II

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard which is identical with ISO/IEC 17065 : 2012 ‘Conformity assessment - Requirements for bodies certifying products, processes and services’ issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) jointly was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendations of the CASCO National Mirror Committee and approval of the Management and Systems Division Council.

The text of ISO/IEC Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. Certain conventions and terminologies are, however, not identical to those used in Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:

a) Wherever the words ‘International Standard’ appear, referring to this standard, they should be read as ‘Indian Standard’.

b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker while in Indian Standards, the current practice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.

IS/ISO/IEC 17065 cancels and replaces IS/ISO/IEC Guide 65 : 1996 which has been technically revised.

The following major changes have been made compared with IS/ISO/IEC Guide 65 : 1996:

- restructuring of this 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 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;

- inclusion of a reference to certification schemes, for which further information is provided in ISO/IEC 17067.