This Malaysian Standard specifies general requirements that a third-party operating a product certification system shall meet if it is to be recognized as competent and reliable.
In this Guide the term “certification body” is used to cover any body operating a product certification sys- tem. The word “product” is used in its widest sense and includes processes and services; the word “standard” is used to include other normative docu- ments such as specifications or technical regulations.
1.2 The certification system used by the certification body may include one or more of the following, which could be coupled with production surveillance or assessment and surveillance of the supplier’s quality system or both, as described in lSO/IEC Guide 53:
a) type testing or examination;
b) testing or inspection of samples taken from the market or from supplier’s stock or from a combi- nation of both;
c) testing or inspection of every product or of a par- ticular product, whether new or alread