According to the Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1012 supplementing Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 with regard to the establishment of standards detailing the level of service and security of safe and secure parking areas and to the procedures for their certification, CAB’s certifying these parking areas are required to be accredited in line with EN ISO/IEC 17021-1 (Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1012 Annex II, A.2).
At the same time, these CABs are expected to make a conformity statement about the parking area fulfilling the requirements of Annex I of the Delegated Regulation (ref. Article 1 and Article. 2).
Since this conformity statement is not in line with the requirements of EN ISO/IEC 17021-1, which requires CAB’s to make a conformity statement about the Management system (MS) of an organization being in compliance with a MS standard, a pragmatic and harmonised approach is required for NAB’s and CAB’s operating in this field.
It should be noted that this resolution is to address this inconsistency and should not be extended to other legislations and schemes.
TMB Resolution 2024 (18) 01
The Technical Management Board (TMB), acting upon recommendation from the Certification Committee, approved the following regarding the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1012 supplementing Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 with regard to the establishment of standards detailing the level of service and security of safe and secure parking areas and to the procedures for their certification:
National Accreditation Bodies shall accredit Conformity Assessment Bodies in accordance with EN ISO/IEC 17021-1 under the following conditions:
- the CAB shall in its evaluation activities include an inspection and an audit to ensure that the parking area complies with the specific requirements of Annex I of the Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1012;
- the inspection shall meet the applicable requirements of EN ISO/IEC 17020 and the audit to test the implementation of the procedures shall meet the requirements of EN ISO/IEC 17021-1;
- the certification body and any part of the same legal entity and entities under its organizational control shall not:
- be the designer, implementer, provider, or maintainer of the certified service;
- offer or provide consultancy to its clients;
- offer or provide management system consultancy or internal auditing to its clients where the certification scheme requires evaluating the client’s management system.
NOTE 1: This does not preclude the possibility of exchange of information (e.g. explanations of findings or clarifying requirements) between the certification body and its clients;
- the certificate shall include the statement that the management system has ensured that the parking area fulfils:
– all of the standards on the minimum level of service set out in Section A of Annex I to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1012;
– all of the standards of one of the security levels set out in Section B of Annex I to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1012.
The NAB shall ensure that the scope of the accreditation includes reference to the requirements of EN ISO/IEC 17021-1, the Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1012, and the Regulation (EC) No 561/2006.
Further to the requirements of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1012 Annex II, B.6 (“suggest the measures to remedy them”), it is noted that the CAB shall handle findings of non-conformity in line with the requirements of clause 9.4.5.4 of EN ISO/IEC 17021-1 and clauses 7.4.6, 7.4.7 and 7.4.8 of EN ISO/IEC 17065. Any non-conformity relating to physical requirements for the parking areas shall be handled as major non-conformities. Any such requirements must be fulfilled (i.e. implementation of correction and corrective action must be reviewed, accepted and verified) before certification can be granted.