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Conformity Assessment Scheme/Conformity Assessment Program

Conformity assessment system related to specified objects of conformity assessment, to which the same specified requirements, specific rules, and procedures apply. Conformity assessment schemes may be operated at international, regional, national, or sub-national level. Access to a system or scheme is the opportunity for an applicant to obtain conformity assessment under the rules of the system or scheme. A participant in a system or scheme is a body that operates under the applicable rules without having the opportunity to take part in the management of the system or scheme. A member of a system or scheme is a body that operates under the applicable rules and has the opportunity to take part in the management of the system or scheme.

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