Certification Body • 2 mins read
Over the past few years UKAS has issued public Expression of Interests (EoI) for the consideration of running pilot programmes for the accreditations of Certification Bodies to offer certification to BS99001: 2022 The Built Environment Quality Management Systems and ISO 37301:2021 Compliance Management Systems — Requirements with guidance for use. The feedback from these indicated that there was only limited interest and therefore were not taken forward at that time.
We have also recently had enquiries in respect to possible accreditation of certification bodies to deliver certification to ISO 56001:2024 Innovation management system — Requirements.
As these standards have not previously been the subject of accredited conformity assessment, UKAS would need to undertake a development project to confirm the applicability of the standard and also to establish a robust and proportionate assessment approach. UKAS is initiating an EoI for ISO56001: 2024 and revisiting the situation with BS99001: 2022 and ISO 37301:2021 to gauge the level of interest there may now be from bodies who want to certify organisations against the individual standards.
Therefore, please could you confirm/ reconfirm if you have interest in one or more of these standards to UKAS ([email protected]) by the end of June 2025 as well as following information:
- The number of clients/estimated number of clients you have for (each of) this standard?
- For the standard in which you have interest the geographical location(s) where accredited certificates will be issued (solely UK, Solely Europe, Office outside of Europe)?
- The number of non-accredited certificates issued for the standard (s) and into which countries?
- The date by which you envisage your clients being ready for
- A Stage 1 audit.
- A Stage 2 audit
- Details of how you scope the certifications and please provide some example certificates. This will assist in the development and implementation of accreditation in this potential new area.