Tuesday, 18 May 2010

Terms used in conformity assessment (ISO/IEC 17000)

Accreditation: Third party attestation by a national accreditation body, against harmonized standards, and where applicable, additional sectoral specifying provisions, conveying formal demonstration of a conformity assessment body's competence to carry out specific conformity assessment activities for any purpose.
[Meeting document DG CIA No 45/07 30 May 2007]


Third party conformity assessment: Conformity assessment that is performed by a person or a body that is independent of the respective supplier and user interests. (First-party: a supplier) (Second party: the user)
[ISO/IEC 17000:2004, definition 3.1.3]

Product certification system: Rules procedures and management for carrying out third party product conformity assessment.
[ISO/IEC 17000:2004, definition 2.7]

Product certification scheme: Product certification system related to specific products to which the same specified requirements, specific rules and procedures apply.
[ISO/IEC 17000:2004, definition 2.8]

Testing: Determination of one or more characteristics of an object of conformity assessment according to a procedure.
[ISO/IEC 17000:2004, definition 3.3.3]

Inspection: Examination of a product design, product, process or plant and determination of their conformity with specific requirements or, on the basis of professional judgement, general requirements.
[ISO/IEC 17000:2004, definition 3.3.4]

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