Are the IAF Mandatory Documents obliged to use as the criteria of the conformity assessment (IAF MD 1, IAF MD 2, IAF MD 5) when accreditation for notification purposes is according to ISO/IEC 17021-1?
September 2017
A new revision of EA 2/17 will begin soon, managed by the HHC, this point will be clarified as part of that revision process.
The consensus of the CC was that the Mandatory documents apply for Accreditation for Notification wherever that standard is used as the preferred standard. But care should be taken because, for example, for Module D and E ISO/IEC 17065 has been identified as the preferred standard and so the MDs in question would not apply. The only Module with ISO/IEC 17021-1 as the preferred standard is Module H.