NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard (Part 4) which is identical with ISO/IEC TS 17021-4 : 2013 ‘Conformity assessment — Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of management systems — Part 4: Competence requirements for auditing and certification of event sustainability management systems’ issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on recommendation of the CASCO National Mirror Committee and approval of the Management and Systems Division Council.

This standard has been published in several parts. The other parts in this series are:

Part 1 Requirements

Part 2 Competence requirements for auditing and certification of environmental management systems

Part 3 Competence requirements for auditing and certification of quality management systems

Part 5 Competence requirements for auditing and certification of asset management systems

Part 6 Competence requirements for auditing and certification of business continuity management

Part 7 Competence requirements for auditing and certification of road traffic safety management systems

The text of ISO Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. Certain terminologies and conventions 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.