It seems that there is some confusion about the certification for ISO
12647-2 (and other parts).
There are a number of independent organizations offering certification
for this ISO. In Europe these are VDM(Germany), FOGRA (Germany),
UGRA(Switzerland), SCGM(Netherlands and Belgium), and maybe some more.
All these offer their certification services also outside their local
country. All these organizations use in a large extent the same
procedure for auditing and have agreed to exchange auditing experience
in a yearly meeting of experts. All use accredited auditors and
certified or accredited local implementation consultants, partly these
are from the own organization, partly these are for practical reasons
(e.g. local language) from other organizations.
I cannot talk about the formal status of the others but SCGM is the
Dutch national board for certification in the graphic media industry and
accredited by the Dutch National Accreditation Board. So there is no
need for any accreditation by FOGRA or whatsoever organization, as this
board it the highest accreditation board available. I assume that also
FOGRA and UGRA are accredited by respectively the German and Swiss
national accreditation boards.
Each country has by international agreement to have a national
accreditation board, this board assures the correctness of the followed
procedures, the conformance with the content and the intent of the
standard, makes sure that the auditors are suitable for their job, have
sufficient knowledge about the subject (for that SCGM uses auditors from
IGT Testing Systems and VIGC), the measuring equipment is properly
maintained and calibrated etc. As backup for each specific certification
process, this board also maintains an Expert Group of different
stakeholders. These meet every 6 months to evaluate the results of the
audits during that period and makes recommendations to the national
mirror committee of the corresponding ISO (or other organization) for
improvement of the standard.
Wilco de Groot
IGT Testing Systems
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