“The certification body and any part of the same legal entity and any entity under the organizational control of the certification body … shall not offer or provide management system consultancy. This also applies to that part of government identified as the certification body.”
3.3 Management system consultancy – participation in establishing, implementation or maintaining a management system
Example 1 Preparation or producing manuals or procedures
Example 2 Giving specific advice, instructions or solutions towards the development and implementation of management system
Does the consultancy of CABs on the implementation (preparation of MS manual or procedures) of ISO/IEC 17025, ISO/IEC 17024 and other standards setting accreditation requirements fall within the scope of management systems consultancy?
March 2021
Yes.
An accredited Management System CB can’t offer or provide these types of activities to CAB’s operating in accordance with ISO/IEC 17024 or ISO/IEC 17025 or other accreditation standards, as this is against ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015 clause 5.2.5.