FINAS has received applications for accreditation of certification to ISO 27701. Our client has the opinion that ISO 27701 is an independent management system standard. However, there seems to be two different approaches of accreditation used:
a) as a stand-alone scheme under ISO/IEC 17021-1
b) as a supplement to ISO/IEC 27001 (similarly to ISO 3834+ISO 9001)
March 2020
While some accreditation bodies had a differing opinion, the consensus answer is that ISO 27701 is a supplement to ISO/IEC 27001.