Specification provides guidelines for determining the duration of management system
certification audits, to the bodies providing audit and certification of management systems and to those
that develop and maintain certification schemes...
Contains principles and requirements for the competence, consistency and
impartiality of bodies providing audit and certification of all types of management systems...
Contains requirements and recommendations to be addressed in a third-party management system certification audit report based on the relevant requirements in ISO/IEC 17021...
Specifies additional competence requirements for personnel involved in the audit and certification process for environmental management systems (EMS) and complements the existing requirements of ISO/IEC 17021-1...