ISO/IEC 17065 Clause 6.2.1 and 6.2.2.1 refer to requirements to be followed for internal or external resources where the scheme includes activities covered by other Conformity Assessment standards i.e. “…..it shall meet the applicable requirements of the relevant International Standards and, as specified by the certification scheme, of other documents. For testing, it shall meet the applicable requirements of ISO/IEC 17025; for inspection, it shall meet the applicable requirements of ISO/IEC 17020; and for management system auditing, it shall meet the applicable requirements of ISO/IEC 17021.”
Clearly ISO/IEC 17029 for Verification and Validation was published after publication of the current version of ISO/IEC 17065.
In the view of EACC members, can we apply the same principles for Validation and Verification i.e. where a scheme includes validation/verification elements the applicable requirements of ISO/IEC 17029 have to be met?
September 2020
While not agreed by 100% of attendees there was an overall consensus that it should be possible to treat ISO/IEC 17029 in the same way as the other standards referred to in this section of ISO/IEC 17065.
Note: following the meeting the same question was posed to the CASCO Maintenance Group, the following response was received: – “No consensus position was possible to provide an answer, one of the difficulties was that the question asked about the applicability of ISO/IEC 17065 to schemes rather than to certification bodies”.