What is this standard about?
BS EN ISO/IEC 17067:2013 describes the fundamentals of product certification and provides guidelines for understanding, developing, operating or maintaining certification schemes for products, processes and services.
Who is this standard for?
- Product certifiers
- Certification scheme owners
- Product designers, manufacturer, suppliers and users
- Certification, auditing and testing bodies
- Governmental authorities/regulators
- Purchasing agencies, industry associations and consumer organizations
- Non-governmental organizations and members of the public
Why should you use this standard?
This international standard outlines how schemes for product certification can be structured and managed. It identifies common assessment techniques that are used as a basis for product certification, such as product testing, inspection and auditing.
As products are designed, produced, distributed, used and ultimately disposed of, they can give rise to concerns with purchasers, users and society in general. These relate to safety, health or environmental impacts, durability, compatibility, suitability for intended purposes or for stated conditions and can be addressed by specifying the required product attributes. Assessment and impartial third-party confirmation that these specified requirements have been demonstrated for the product is referred to as product certification.