Amendment of policy rules

The RvA has changed a number of policies. These changes were made regarding the implementation of the EN-ISO/IEC 17029 standard and our digital reporting system.

Implementation EN-ISO/IEC 17029

For the implementation of the EN-ISO/IEC 17029 the following policy rules have been amended:

  • BR002, Policy rule Accreditation. The summary of changes can be found in chapter 14.
  • BR003, Policy rule Scope of Accreditation. The summary of changes can be found in chapter 16.
  • BR004, Policy Non-conformities and corrective action. Chapter 10 shows the summary of changes.
  • BR005, Policy rule Surveillance and reassessments. Chapter 4 shows the summary of changes.
  • BR010, Policy rule for the Fields of activities of RvA. The changes can be found in article 7.

These policy rules have been published in the Staatscourant on January 13, 2022.

BR004 amended

In policy rule BR004, Non-conformities and corrective action, changes have been made to reflect the implementation of the RvA’s digital reporting system. The standard period for submitting corrective actions has been reduced from three months to six weeks. The possibility of a third round of taking corrective actions has been added as well as the explicit option to work with an action plan in the first round.

The rule on disputes on interpretation has been rewritten and moved from policy rule BR002 to BR004.