Members such as Swedac, UKAS, DAkkS and ANAB sign a multilateral recognition arrangement, under which a certificate issued by a body accredited in one country is treated as equivalent elsewhere. The IAF also runs IAF CertSearch, a database for checking whether an ISO management system certificate is accredited and current.
Listing in CertSearch is voluntary for certification bodies and their clients, so a certificate that is not found there is not necessarily fake; ask the certification body to confirm it instead. See accreditation body.
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Related terms
- Accreditation body
- An accreditation body is the national authority that assesses certification bodies and authorises them to issue ISO management system certificates.
- Certification body
- A certification body is the independent organization that audits a management system against an ISO standard and issues the certificate when it conforms.
- ISO 27001
- ISO/IEC 27001 is the international standard for an information security management system, certified by an accredited body on a three-year cycle.