Issue Number:  Edition 106

Date of Issue:  April 2008

PUBLICATIONS RELATING TO CERTIFICATION BODY ACCREDITATION

To gain accreditation, a certification body must be fully conversant and comply with the relevant standards, which are:

ISO/IEC Guide 65:1996 (BS EN 45011:1998)

General requirements for bodies operating product certification systems

IAF GD5	IAF Guidance on the application of ISO/IEC Guide 65:1996 (Application from 8 December 2007)
IAF GD5 Summary	Summary of Changes for IAF GD5:2006
EA 6-02	EA Guidelines on the use of EN45011 and ISO/IEC 17021 for Certification to EN ISO 3834

ISO/IEC Guide 62:1996 (BS EN 45012:1998)
Note: This standard has been replaced, BS EN ISO/IEC 17021:2006 Conformity assessment - Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of management systems was published on 15 September 2006.  Click here to view the news article detailing the transition arrangments.

General requirements for bodies operating assessment and certification/registration of quality systems

IAF GD2:2005	IAF Guidance on the application of ISO/IEC Guide 62:1996
EA-7/03	EA Guidance for the Accreditation of Bodies Operating Certification/Registration of Information Security Management Systems
EA-6/02	EA Guidelines on the use of EN45011 and ISO/IEC 17021 for Certification to EN ISO 3834

ISO/IEC 17024:2003

General Requirements for bodies operating certification of persons

IAF GD 24:2004

IAF Guidance on the Application of ISO/IEC 17024:2003

ISO/IEC Guide 66:1999
Note: This standard has been replaced, BS EN ISO/IEC 17021:2006 Conformity assessment - Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of management systems was published on 15 September 2006.  Click here to view the news article detailing the transition arrangments.

General requirements for bodies operating assessment and certification/registration of environmental management systems

EA 7/04	Legal Compliance as part of Accredited ISO 14001:2004 certification (March 2007)
IAF GD6:2006	IAF Guidance on the application of ISO/IEC Guide 66:1999

EMAS: Council Regulation (EC) No 761/2001 of 19 March 2001

UKAS EMAS Supplement

EN45503 - Attestation Standard for the assessment of contract award procedures of entities  operating in the water, energy, transport and telecommunications sectors

EA-9/01

EA Guidelines on the Application of EN45503

Guidance in interpreting these standards has been published under international agreements and adopted by UKAS.
UKAS has also published or adopted other publications concerned with specialised aspects of certification.
Even if a publication is applicable to only part of a certification body’s activities, compliance with the requirements in the publication is still mandatory.
Certification bodies (including applicant CBs) and assessors/auditors must read the UKAS Publications List (M4) to check for publications with which they have to comply.

C1	General Principles for the Assessment of Certification Bodies for Management System Certification (Edition 2, March 2006)
C2	General Principles for the Assessment of Certification Bodies for Product Certification (Edition 2, March 2006)
C3	General Principles for the Assessment of Certification Bodies for Environmental Management System Certification (Edition 2, March 2006)

Information and Guidance in Specialised Areas of Certification

CIS3	UKAS Guidance for bodies operating certification of Trust Service Providers seeking approval under tscheme. (Nov 2002)
CIS5	UKAS Guidance on the application of ISO/IEC Guide 65 (EN 45011), EA-6/01 and EA-6/03, for verification of greenhouse gas emissions for the purpose of the UK's various emissions accounting and trading schemes (Edition 2, November 2006)
CIS6	UKAS Approach to Accreditation for Certification/Inspection to PAS 43 (December 2003)

Sector Schemes for Quality Management in Highway Works

Scheme 2A	Sector Scheme Document for the Design and/or Supply, Installation and Repair of Fences for Infrastructure Works (Nov 2005)
Scheme 2B	Sector Scheme Document For the supply, installation, maintenance and repair of Vehicle Restraint Systems(Edition 4, December 2006)
Scheme 2C	Sector Scheme Document for the Design, Supply, Installation and Repair of Environmental Barriers (Structural) for Infrastructure Works (Nov 2005)
Scheme 4	Sector Scheme Document for Preservative Treatment of Timber(Edition 5, August 2006)
Scheme 5A	Sector Scheme Document for the Manufacture of Parapets for Road Restraint Systems (April 2005)
Scheme 5B	Sector Scheme Document for the Installation of Parapets for Road Restraint Systems (August 2007)
Scheme 6	Sector Scheme Document for Manufacture and verification of lighting columns formerly known as 5020 (Edition 5, August 2007)
Scheme 7	Sector Scheme Document for The Application of Road Marking Materials and Road Studs to Road Surfaces (June 2006)
Schemes 8 9B & 10	Installation and Maintenance of Highway Electrical amd/or Highway Electronic Equipment and/or Associated Highway Works (Edition 8, December 2007)
Scheme 9A	Sector Scheme for the manufacture of permanent and/or temporary road traffic signs (Edition 3, November 2006)
Scheme 12A/12B	Sector Scheme Document For static temporary traffic management on motorways and high speed dual carriageways including on-line widening schemes (Edition 1, November 2006)
Scheme 12C	Sector Scheme Document for Mobile Lane Closure Traffic Management on Motorways and Other Dual Carriageways (Edition 6, November 2006)
Scheme 12 D	Sector Scheme Document for Installing, maintaining and removing temporary traffic management on rural and urban roads (Edition 3, May 2008)
Scheme 13A	For the supply and application of surface dressings to road surfaces (Edition 7, May 2008)
Scheme 13B	Sector Scheme Document for the Supply and Application of Microsurfacing (Edition 2, May 2008)
Scheme 14	For the quality management of the production of asphalt mixes (Edition 6, April 06)
Scheme 14	For the quality management of the production of asphalt mixes (Edition 7, January 08) (At the request of the Highways Agency, this edition is made available on the UKAS website. It will replace Edition 6 in January 2008).
Scheme 15	Sector Scheme Document for The Supply of Paving Bitumens (Edition 4, December 2007)
Scheme 16	Sector Scheme Document for the Laying of Asphalt Mixes (Edition 4, August 2007)
Scheme 17	NHSS 17 - Sector Scheme Document for vehicle recovery at Highway Construction sites (Edition 4, August 2007)
Scheme 17B	Sector Scheme Document for Vehicle Recovery and Removal on Controlled Roads (Edition 2, August 2007)
Scheme 18	Sector Scheme Document for the environment and landscape including ecology (Edition 2, November 2007)
Scheme 19A	Sector Scheme document for corrosion protection of ferrous materials by industrial coatings (Edition 2, December 2007)
HD 46/05	Quality Management Systems for Highway Design (DRAFT Version 1 Document)

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