BS EN ISO/IEC 17000:2020

This standard BS EN ISO/IEC 17000:2020 Conformity assessment. Vocabulary and general principles is classified in these ICS categories:

• 03.120.20 Product and company certification. Conformity assessment
• 01.040.03 Services. Company organization, management and quality. Administration. Transport. Sociology. (Vocabularies)

This document specifies general terms and definitions relating to conformity assessment (including the accreditation of conformity assessment bodies) and to the use of conformity assessment to facilitate trade.

The general principles of conformity assessment and a description of the functional approach to conformity assessment are provided in Annex A.

Conformity assessment interacts with other fields such as management systems, metrology, standardization and statistics. The boundaries of conformity assessment are not defined in this document.