Conformity Assessment Working Group (WG) 21 is revision ISO/IEC 17021, Certification of management systems. When completed, 3rd party registration auditors will use 17021, while 1st and 2nd party auditors will use the soon-to-be-revised 19011, Auditing management systems.
WG 21 met at the end of June to review the comments and proceed to Final Draft International Standard (FDIS). (The April meeting was rescheduled due to the Iceland volcano eruption but the completion of the document is still on target and publication is planned in early 2011.)
The future ISO/IEC 17021:2011 contains all of the current ISO/IEC 17021:2006 requirements and additional requirements related specifically to auditor competence and the audit process. For the first year of publication, ISO/IEC 17021:2006 will coexist with ISO/IEC 17021:2011. ISO/IEC 17021:2011 will then undergo a restricted review in 2012 to allow the working group to make necessary changes to the 2006 parts of the document. This document will then replace all other versions.
Source: ISO/CASCO eNewsletter - Issue n. 4 - July 2010
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