Name : IAF Membership

Category : Applications

Description : Please contact secretary@iaf.nu for information regarding applying for membership in the IAF.

Name : IAF Public Document Responsibility (IAF-EC-11-11 Rev. 20)

Category : Public Document Responsibility

Description : June 2021

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Name : IAF Representatives, Liaisons, and Contacts (IAF EC-11-10 Rev. 17)

Category : Representatives, Liaisons and Contacts

Description : June 2021

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Name : IAF Strategic Plan 2015 - 2019

Category : Strategic Plan

Description : August 2014

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Name : IAF Strategic Plan 2015 - 2019

Category : Strategic Plan

Description : Rev. 1, May 2017

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Name : IAF Strategic Plan 2020-2025

Category : Strategic Plan

Description : June 2020

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Name : IAF-GLOBALG.A.P Memorandum of Understanding

Category : Memoranda of Understanding and Agreements signed by IAF

Description : Copy of the text of the MoU agreed between IAF and GLOBALG.A.P. The MoU was originally signed between IAF and EurepGAP by Dr Thomas Facklam, the Chairman of IAF and Dr Kristian Moller, the Secretary of EurepGAP and the Managing Director of FoodPlus GmbH, on June 2, 2006. The updated MoU with GLOBALG.A.P was signed on May 29, 2009.

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Name : Summary List MoU Adoptions

Category : Memoranda of Understanding and Agreements signed by IAF

Description : Annex - Summary of IAF Accreditation Bodies which have adopted the IAF - GLOBALG.A.P. Memorandum of Understanding

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Name : IAF-FoodPLUS Agreement - Endorsement of the GLOBALG.A.P. Integrated Farm Assurance (IFA) Certification Scheme

Category : Memoranda of Understanding and Agreements signed by IAF

Description : The Agreement finalises the IAF endorsement of the GLOBALG.A.P. Integrated Farm Assurance (IFA) certification scheme. The Agreement was signed between IAF and FoodPLUS by Mr Randy Dougherty, the Chairman of IAF and Mr. Andras Fekete on behalf of Dr Kristian Moller, the Secretary of GLOBALG.A.P, and the Managing Director of FoodPlus GmbH, on the 25th of October 2013. The endorsement of the IFA certification scheme introduces the IFA certification into the IAF MLA as a level 4 and level 5 sub-scopes under the main scope of ISO/IEC Guide 65/17065.

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Name : IAF-ILAC Agreement on Closer Cooperation

Category : Memoranda of Understanding and Agreements signed by IAF

Description : Copy of the text of the Agreement between IAF and ILAC signed by Randy Dougherty, the Chair of IAF, and Peter Unger, the Chair of ILAC, on October 25, 2012 at a ceremony in Rio de Janeiro.

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Name : IAF-ILAC-IEC Memorandum of Understanding

Category : Memoranda of Understanding and Agreements signed by IAF

Description : Copy of the text of the revised MoU agreed between IAF, ILAC and IEC. The original MoU was signed by Randy Dougherty, the Chairman of IAF, Daniel Pierre, the Chairman of ILAC, and Aharon Amit, the General-Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of IEC, on October 29, 2010 at a ceremony in Shanghai. An initial update to the MoU was signed October 2012 in Rio de Janeiro. The most recent update to the ILAC-IAF-IEC MoU is the November 2018 version. A dedicated website has been set up to facilitate collaboration between the three parties, which aims to reduce cost, time and complexity through the pooling of resources. The link is: www.iec-ilac-iaf.org

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Name : IAF-ILAC-ISO Memorandum of Understanding

Category : Memoranda of Understanding and Agreements signed by IAF

Description : Copy of the text of the updated MoU agreed between IAF, ILAC and ISO. The MoU was signed by Randy Dougherty, the Chairman of IAF, Peter Unger, the Chairman of ILAC and Rob Steele, the Secretary-General of ISO, on April 10, 2014 at a ceremony in Geneva.

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Name : IAF-ILAC-ITU Memorandum of Understanding

Category : Memoranda of Understanding and Agreements signed by IAF

Description : Copy of the text of the MoU agreed between IAF, ILAC and ITU. The MoU was signed between IAF, ILAC and ITU by Randy Dougherty, the Chair of IAF, Peter Unger, the Chair of ILAC, and Malcolm Johnson, Director, Telecommunication, Standardization Bureau, of the ITU on May 14, 2012.

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Name : IAF-ILAC-OIML Memorandum of Understanding

Category : Memoranda of Understanding and Agreements signed by IAF

Description : Copy of the text of the updated MoU agreed between IAF, ILAC and OIML. The updated MoU was signed by Xiao Jianhua, the Chair of IAF, Merih Malmqvist Nilsson, the Chair of ILAC, and Roman Schwartz, the President of the International Committee of Legal Metrology for OIML, on October 10, 2018 at a ceremony in Hamburg, Germany. The revised document replaces a second revision dated October 16, 2014. The original tripartite MoU was signed on October 28, 2007.

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Name : IAF-ILAC-UNIDO Memorandum of Understanding

Category : Memoranda of Understanding and Agreements signed by IAF

Description : Copy of the text of the updated MoU agreed between IAF, ILAC and UNIDO. The updated MoU was signed by Xiao Jianhua, the Chair of IAF, Merih Malmqvist Nilsson, the Chair of ILAC, and Ll Yong, the UNIDO Director General, on November 24, 2017 at a ceremony in Vienna, Austria. The original tripartite MoU was signed on October 10, 2004.

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Name : IAF-FAMI-QS Agreement - Endorsement of the FAMI-QS Certification Scheme

Category : Memoranda of Understanding and Agreements signed by IAF

Description : This Agreement finalises the IAF endorsement of FAMI-QS asbl's FAMI-QS certification scheme. The Agreement was signed between IAF and FAMI-QS asbl by Mr Xiao Jianhua, the Chairman of IAF, and Mr. Emmanuel Geneiatakis, the Secretary General of FAMI-QS asbl, on the 29th of October 2017.

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Name : IAF-IPC Agreement - Endorsement of the IPC Management System Auditors Certification Scheme

Category : Memoranda of Understanding and Agreements signed by IAF

Description : This Agreement finalises the IAF endorsement of the International Personnel Certification Association (IPC)'s IPC Management System Auditors certification scheme. The Agreement was signed between IAF and IPC by Mr Xiao Jianhua, the Chairman of IAF, and Mr George Anastasopoulos, the General Secretary of IPC, on behalf of Osman Vural, the Chairman of IPC, on the 28th of October 2017.

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Name : IAF-GFSI Agreement - Endorsement of GFSI Benchmarked Schemes

Category : Memoranda of Understanding and Agreements signed by IAF

Description : This agreement will facilitate IAF endorsement of GFSI benchmarked schemes as a sub-scope of the IAF MLA in accordance with IAF PL3 and this agreement. The Agreement was signed between IAF and GFSI by Mr Xiao Jianhua, the Chairman of IAF, and Mr. Peter Freedman, the Managing Director at The Consumer Goods Forum on the 05th of April 2018.

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Name : IAF-ILAC-World Bank Memorandum of Understanding

Category : Memoranda of Understanding and Agreements signed by IAF

Description : Copy of the text of the MoU agreed between IAF, ILAC, and the World Bank. The MoU was signed by Xiao Jianhua, the Chair of IAF, Merih Malmqvist Nilsson, the Chair of ILAC, and John Panzer, Director, International Development Association, World Bank, on October 30, 2018

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Name : IAF-ILAC-IHAF Memorandum of Understanding

Category : Memoranda of Understanding and Agreements signed by IAF

Description : Copy of the text of the MoU agreed between IAF, ILAC, and IHAF. The MoU was signed by Xiao Jianhua, the Chair of IAF, Merih Malmqvist Nilsson, the Chair of ILAC, and Mohamed Saleh Badri, the Secretary General of IHAF, on October 30, 2018

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Name : IAF-Foundation FSSC 22000 Agreement - Endorsement of the FSSC 22000 Certification Scheme

Category : Memoranda of Understanding and Agreements signed by IAF

Description : This Agreement finalises the IAF endorsement of Foundation FSSC 22000's FSSC 22000 certification scheme. The Agreement was signed between IAF and Foundation FSSC 22000 by Mr Xiao Jianhua, the Chairman of IAF, and Mr Aldin Hilbrands, the Director General of Foundation FSSC 22000, on the 12th of March 2021.

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Name : IAF Technical Committee (TC) Searchable Decision Log

Category : Technical Committee Related

Description : Contains all TC technical decisions up to and including the items considered out of session following the October 2020 virtual meeting.

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Name : Remote Auditing Activities for Accredited Food Safety Certification - Version 2, April 2020

Category : Technical Committee Related

Description : This document produced by the IAF Food Working Group - Task Force GFSI provides guidance on how remote auditing processes and procedures defined in international standards and IAF documents can be used in accredited food safety certification.

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Name : Accreditation Body Assessor Job Task Analysis Report - October 2012

Category : Technical Committee Related

Description : The IAF Validation and Job Task Analysis Report for Accreditation Body (AB) Assessors has been finalized and approved. This report was designed to validate the “generic” tasks, knowledge and skills of an Accreditation Body Assessor. The report describes in detail the process and results of this study to include a content outline and learning objectives that can be used for designing and implementing training programs. The task list can also be used to design evaluation tools for AB assessors. At the present time, this document is informative. It is intended that a mandatory document based on this information will be developed in the future.

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Name : Expected outcomes for accredited certication to ISO management system standards such as ISO 9001 and ISO 14001

Category : Expected outcomes for accredited certification to to ISO management system standards

Description : This joint IAF-ISO document sets out the outcomes that are to be expected as a result of accredited management systems certification. The intent is to promote a common focus throughout the entire conformity assessment chain in order to achieve these expected outcomes and thereby enhance the value and relevance of accredited certification. The document sets out a high-level overview into what an organisation should expect from the certification process, but also what it should not.

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Name : Agenda

Category : IAF MD 20 Workshop

Description : A workshop on IAF MD 20:2016 Generic Competence for AB Assessors: Application to ISO/IEC 17011 was held in October 2016 at the Joint IAF-ILAC Annual Meetings in New Delhi. The entire workshop is available for viewing on the IAF-ILAC Youtube channel and the associated documents are available below.

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Name : Background

Category : IAF MD 20 Workshop

Description : corresponds with video 01

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Name : Sharing Insights into Implementing IAF MD 20 / Implementing IAF MD 20

Category : IAF MD 20 Workshop

Description : corresponds with videos 02 and 08

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Name : One Method to Manage Competence

Category : IAF MD 20 Workshop

Description : corresponds with video 03

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Name : JAS-ANZ Competency Framework

Category : IAF MD 20 Workshop

Description : corresponds with video 04

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Name : UKAS Competence Process

Category : IAF MD 20 Workshop

Description : corresponds with video 05

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Name : Assessing Competence vs Qualification

Category : IAF MD 20 Workshop

Description : corresponds with video 07

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Name : Agenda

Category : IAF ISO/IEC 17024 Workshop

Description : A workshop on ISO/IEC 17024 Conformity assessment -- General requirements for bodies operating certification of persons was held in October 2017 at the Joint IAF-ILAC meetings in Vancouver.

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Name : Welcome & Background Information

Category : IAF ISO/IEC 17024 Workshop

Description : Workshop Cooperative Effort from the WG on Certification of Persons (ISO/IEC 17024)

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Name : ISO/IEC 17024 Clauses 4 & 5

Category : IAF ISO/IEC 17024 Workshop

Description : Presentation by Dr. George Anastasopoulos - Director, Conformity Assessment, IAS

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Name : ISO/IEC 17024 Clause 8

Category : IAF ISO/IEC 17024 Workshop

Description : Components of a Competence Based Certification Program

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Name : ISO/IEC 17024 Clause 9

Category : IAF ISO/IEC 17024 Workshop

Description : Presentation by Dr. Vijay Krishna, Sr. Director, Credentialing Programs

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Name : ISO/IEC 17024 Clause 9.3.5

Category : IAF ISO/IEC 17024 Workshop

Description : Appropriate methodology and procedures (e.g. collecting and maintaining statistical data) shall be documented and implemented in order to affirm, at justified defined intervals, the fairness, validity reliability and general performance of each examination, and that all identified deficiencies are corrected.

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Name : ISO/IEC 17024 Clause 6

Category : IAF ISO/IEC 17024 Workshop

Description : Resource Requirements

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Name : ISO/IEC 17024 Clause 7

Category : IAF ISO/IEC 17024 Workshop

Description : Records and Information Requirements

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Name : ISO/IEC 17024 Clause 10

Category : IAF ISO/IEC 17024 Workshop

Description : Management System Requirements

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Name : Outcomes

Category : IAF ISO/IEC 17024 Workshop

Description : Outcomes Workshop on Persons Certification (ISO/IEC 17024) -Tuesday, 24 October 2017, 13:30 – 21:30 -Vancouver, Canada

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Name : Resources for Conformity Assessment

Category : ISO/CASCO Publications, Presentations, and Resources

Description : To ensure consistency in the implementation of its standards, CASCO has set up a clarification process. Information on the clarification process, including previous requests for clarification, eligibility for requests and the associated form, are available at https://www.iso.org/resources-for-conformity-assessment.html.

Name : ISO Publications List

Category : ISO/CASCO Publications, Presentations, and Resources

Description : ISO has made available a collection of free publications of interest to the standards development and conformity assessment community at the following links: https://www.iso.org/publication-list.html?t=standards_development and https://www.iso.org/publication-list.html?t=conformity

Name : Guidance for ISO liaison organizations

Category : ISO/CASCO Publications, Presentations, and Resources

Description : Also available is a guidance document for liaison organizations on engaging stakeholders and building consensus (http://www.iso.org/iso/guidance_liaison-organizations.pdf). This document provides specific principles and guidance to liaisons on involving their stakeholders throughout the various stages of development of ISO work. IAF Liaison representatives who participate in ISO's work are encouraged to review sections 3.1 & 3.2 of this document to ensure effective and representative input into the development of ISO standards.

Name : CASCO standards - Presentations

Category : ISO/CASCO Publications, Presentations, and Resources

Description : For some of the recently published CASCO standards, the experts of the Working Groups who developed them have prepared a Power point presentation to highlight the main elements of the document and show the differences with the former version. The slides can be used by anyone making a presentation or simply to learn about the new standard and can be accessed via the this link.

Name : CASCO Toolbox

Category : ISO/CASCO Publications, Presentations, and Resources

Description : The CASCO toolbox includes helpful links to basic conformity assessment terms and concepts, case studies of specific industry sectors from around the world, relevant international standards, guides and other documents containing more detail, or further sources of information.

Name : OD-G-2003 IECEE-ILAC-IAF Guidance for the Conduct of Unified Assessments in the Electrotechnical Sector - Ed. 2.0, April 2016

Category : Joint Publications with other Organizations

Description : This document was developed by a Joint Working Group of IEC, ILAC and IAF for assessment teams conducting unified assessments in the electrotechnical sector and provides background and guidance on how unified assessments are prepared, conducted and completed. This document contains guidance on the management of the on-site assessment of Certification Bodies and Testing Laboratories against ISO/IEC 17065 and ISO/IEC 17025, in order to harmonize and simplify unified assessments in the electrotechnical sector. The guidance emphasizes the importance of assessment as a management tool for monitoring and verifying the effective competence and capability in the relevant elements of conformity assessment in testing and certification of electrotechnical equipment and components. The use of this guidance may differ according to the size, nature and complexity of the organizations to be assessed, as well as the objectives and scopes of the assessments to be conducted.

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Name : PEFC ST 2003:2012 Requirement for Certification Bodies operating Certification against the PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes) International Chain of Custody Standard

Category : Joint Publications with other Organizations

Description : This document defines the requirements for certification bodies carrying out PEFC chain of custody certification. It was developed by a joint working group of PEFC and the International Accreditation Forum (IAF), and is effective as of 16 July 2012. It was agreed at the IAF Technical Committee meeting held on 21 October 2012 that PEFC should take full responsibility for the publishing and maintenance of this document, and for the scheme.

Name : Joint IAF-OIML Assessment Procedure in the Field of Legal Metrology - January 2020

Category : Joint Publications with other Organizations

Description : The purpose of this document is to implement the provisions of the IAF-ILAC-OIML Memorandum of Understanding, related to the assessment of Issuing Authorities in the framework of the OIML-CS. This document specifies in particular the requirements for the competence of the assessment team, and the reference documents which define the requirements to be assessed.

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