This part of ISO/IEC 17021 contains principles and requirements for the competence, consistency and
impartiality of bodies providing audit and certification of all types of management systems.
Certification bodies operating to this part of ISO/IEC 17021 do not need to offer all types of management
system certification.
Certification of management systems is a third-party conformity assessment activity (see
ISO/IEC 17000:2004, 5.5) and bodies performing this activity are therefore third-party conformity
assessment bodies.
NOTE 1 Examples of management systems include environmental management systems, quality management
systems and information security management systems.
NOTE 2 In this part of ISO/IEC 17021, certification of management systems is referred to as “certification” and
third-party conformity assessment bodies are referred to as “certification bodies”.
NOTE 3 A certification body can be non-governmental or governmental, with or without regulatory authority.
NOTE 4 This part of ISO/IEC 17021 can be used as a criteria document for accreditation, peer assessment or
other audit processes.

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This International Standard contains requirements for the competence, consistent operation and impartiality of product, process and service certification bodies. Certification bodies operating to this International Standard need not offer all types of products, processes and services certification. Certification of products, processes and services is a third party conformity assessment activity (5.5 of ISO/IEC 17000:2004). In the text the term "product" can be read as "process" or "service", except in those instances where separate provisions are stated for "processes" or "services".

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