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Since the certification/ registration schemes relative to ISO 9000s and 14001 are voluntary, there is no regulation requiring a license or approval of some sort to operate as a registration body, nor a punitive rule for nonconformity with the requirements of ISO/IEC Guide 62 or 66. However, in order to ensure that certification/ registration against international standards is maintained at an adequate level of quality and treated as equivalent all over the world, there is one °»accreditation body°… for one country that grants accreditation to registration bodies based on ISO/IEC Guide 62 and 66. It does not mean that all registration bodies operating in Japan must be accredited by JAB for the operation, but most of the registration bodies are accredited either by JAB or foreign accreditation bodies. As already said, the criteria used by accreditation bodies for granting accreditation are ISO/IEC Guide 62 (JIS Z 9362) for quality system registration bodies and ISO/IEC Guide 66 (JIS Z 9366) for environmental management system registration bodies. Adopting these standards as accreditation requirements, we, JAB, further use guidance documents for Guides 62 and 66 issued by International Accreditation Forum, Inc. (IAF) as our guidance for accreditation. If you intend to apply for accreditation, you are first required to satisfy these requirements before you proceed with actual application procedures. For details please read "Accreditation Procedures for registration bodies from application for accreditation until registration (JAB R210-1999) (PDF file, 78 KByte)".
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