ISO/IEC 17007:2009

First edition 2009-09-15. Conformity assessment — Guidance for drafting normative documents suitable for use for conformity assessment.

This International Standard provides principles and guidance on how to write normative documents, such as standards, technical specifications, codes of practice and regulations, such that they are concise and clear, especially in the context of any subsequent conformity assessment activity.

Conformity assessment activities include testing, inspection and various forms of certification. These activities can result in attestations such as declarations, reports, certificates, marks of conformity or the granting of permissions and licences (see also ISO/IEC 17000:2004).

This International Standard provides principles and guidance for developing normative documents that contain:

• specified requirements for objects of conformity assessment to fulfil;
• specified requirements for conformity assessment systems that can be employed when demonstrating whether an object of conformity assessment fulfils specified requirements.

This International Standard ISO 17007  is intended for use by standards developers not applying the ISO/IEC Directives, industry associations and consortia, purchasers, regulators, consumers and non-government groups, accreditation bodies, conformity assessment bodies, conformity assessment scheme owners, and other interested parties, such as insurance organizations.