NOTE 1 This document can be used as a criteria document for the accreditation or peer assessment of certification bodies which seek to be recognized as being competent to certify that an EOMS conforms to ISO 21001. It is also intended to be used as a criteria document by regulatory authorities and industry consortia which engage in direct recognition of certification bodies to certify that an EOMS conforms to ISO 21001. Some of its requirements could also be useful to other parties involved in the conformity assessment of such certification bodies, and in the conformity assessment of bodies that undertake to certify the compliance of EOMS with criteria additional to, or other than, those in ISO 21001.
NOTE 2 Certification of an EOMS according to ISO 21001 is a management system certification, not a product certification.
NOTE 3 ISO 21001 is a standalone management system standard, not a sector application of ISO 9001.
The concepts and requirements of this document can be used to support certification schemes in other standards for education, such as EQAVET (European Quality Assurance in Vocational Education and Training) and ENQA-ESG (European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education, Standards and guidelines for quality assurance in the European Higher Education Area).
