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Conformity Assessment

Demonstration that specified requirements relating to a product, process, system, person, or body are fulfilled. Conformity assessment may include testing, inspection, and certification, as well as the accreditation of conformity assessment bodies. First-party conformity assessment activity is performed by the person or organization that provides the object. Second-party conformity assessment activity is performed by a person or organization that has a user interest in the object. Persons or organization performing second-party conformity assessment activities include, for example, purchasers or users of products, or potential customers seeking to rely on a suppliers management system, or organizations representing those interests. Third party conformity assessment activity is performed by a person or body that is independent of the person or organization that provides the object, and of user interests in that object.

Committee
Interdisciplinary
Date Added to Lexicon
Standard Source (Designation Number Title of Standard. Publisher, Place, Year.)
ISO/IEC 17000:2014 Conformity assessment -- Vocabulary and general principles. International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission, Chemin de Blandonnet 8, CP 401, 1214 Vernier, Geneva, Switzerland, 2014. Source link
Reprinted, with permission, from ISO, copyright International Organization for Standardization, 1214 Vernier, Geneva, Switzerland. A copy of the complete standard may be purchased from ISO, https://www.iso.org/store.html