GB/Z 27001-2025Conformity assessment - Common elements - Principles and requirements (English PDF)

Foreword

This document is in accordance with the provisions of GB/T 1.1-2020 "Guidelines for standardization work Part

1.Structure and drafting rules for standardization documents" Drafting. This document replaces GB/T 27001-2011 "Principles and requirements for impartiality in conformity assessment", GB/T 27002-2011 "Principles and requirements for impartiality in conformity assessment" GB/T 27003-2011 "Principles and Requirements for Complaints and Appeals for Conformity Assessment", GB/T 27004- 2011 "Principles and Requirements for the Disclosure of Conformity Assessment Information" and GB/T 27005-2011 "Principles for the Use of Conformity Assessment Management Systems" Compared with the original document, in addition to structural adjustments and editorial changes, the main technical changes are as follows:

--- Added a chapter on "Capabilities" (see Chapter 10);

--- Added relevant content of the optional requirements of "fairness" (see 5.2.4.5);

--- Added relevant content of optional requirements for "confidentiality" (see 6.2.3.1, 6.2.3.2);

--- Changed the requirements for the organizational management system (see 11.2.2,

5.2 of GB/T 27005-2011). This document is modified to adopt ISO /CASCO/PROC/33.2020 "Common Elements of International Standards for Conformity Assessment", and the document type is from ISO The internal procedure documents for the preparation of international standards are adjusted to become guiding technical documents for national standardization in my country. Compared with ISO /CASCO/PROC/33.2020, this document has the following structural adjustments.

---The first paragraph of the introduction corresponds to Chapter 2 of the original text;

---Chapter 8 corresponds to Chapter 7 of the original text;

---Chapter 9 corresponds to Chapter 8 of the original text;

---Chapter 10 corresponds to Chapter 9 of the original text;

---Chapter 11 corresponds to Chapter 10 of the original text. The technical differences between this document and ISO /CASCO/PROC/33.2020 and their reasons are as follows:

--- Added Chapter 3 "Terms and Definitions" to comply with the requirements of GB/T 1.1-2020;

--- Deleted Chapter 3 "General Element Document Maintenance and Revision Process" of the original text, which is not applicable to CASCO internal procedures. For use in this document;

1 Scope

GB/Z 27001-2025 sets out the elements common to every kind of conformity assessment body. Certification bodies, inspection bodies, testing laboratories and the accreditation bodies above them each work to their own standard, and those standards repeat the same fundamentals in slightly different words - impartiality above all, along with competence, confidentiality, the handling of complaints and appeals, and the management of the commercial and personal pressures that arise when a body is paid by the organisation it is judging. Stating them once, in common terms, matters because it is the shared foundation that makes results from different bodies mutually acceptable, which is the entire point of an accreditation system. This document specifies the principles and requirements for conformity assessment bodies and accreditation bodies with regard to impartiality and the related common elements. As a GB/Z it is a guiding technical document, appropriate for a horizontal document that other standards build on rather than one certified against directly. Under ICS 03.120.20 and CCS A00, it is written for certification, inspection and testing bodies, for accreditation bodies, and for the regulators who rely on their work.

This document specifies the requirements for conformity assessment bodies and accreditation bodies (collectively referred to as "bodies" in this document), with regard to impartiality, assurance and principles and requirements for common elements such as confidentiality, information disclosure, grievance handling, complaint handling, capacity and management systems. This document is applicable to the preparation of conformity assessment standards and can be used as a reference for the preparation and revision of other conformity assessment related documents.

2 Normative references

The contents of the following documents constitute essential clauses of this document through normative references in this document. For referenced documents without a date, only the version corresponding to that date applies to this document; for referenced documents without a date, the latest version (including all amendments) applies to This document.

GB/T 19001-2016 Quality Management System Requirements ( ISO 9001.2015, IDT)

GB/T 27000-2023 Conformity assessment vocabulary and general principles (ISO / IEC 17000.2020, IDT)

3 Terms and definitions

The terms and definitions defined in GB/T 27000-2023 apply to this document.

4 General

This document establishes a set of requirements for common elements of conformity assessment while retaining flexibility in the drafting of standards with regard to specific terminology. The structure of each common element is as follows:

a) Background and principles The background and principles explain why these common elements are the basis for conformity assessment and how to apply them. The concepts and principles provide guidance on whether the common elements are appropriate for the document being drafted.

b) Instructions for the Drafting Group of Conformity Assessment Standards The Conformity Assessment Standards Drafting Group (hereinafter referred to as the Standards Drafting Group) is required to ensure that the necessary common elements are reflected in the documents to be formulated and revised. These instructions include the notes to 5.2.6, 11.1.3, 11.2.1, and 11.2.3.

c) Requirements This document provides mandatory and optional requirements in the relevant sections of the common structure (General, Structure, Resources, Processes and Management System). 1) Required requirements. The standard drafting group shall include the mandatory requirements proposed in this document in the entire document preparation and revision. These requirements cannot be changed when used, except For example, "impartially carry out conformity assessment activities" can be replaced by the more specific "impartially carry out management system certification activities". instead of "certification activities". The standard drafting group has no right to.

---Omit a common element;

---Omit a mandatory requirement under a common element;

--- Change the wording of mandatory requirements without replacing them with more specific terms.

5 Fairness