Scheme managers are organisations that develop and manage schemes. These schemes describe the subject of the assessment and the requirements that apply. Laboratories, inspection bodies and certification bodies use these schemes as a starting point for carrying out their assessment tasks. If an assessed organisation meets the requirements, a certificate is issued. Scheme managers are therefore not conformity-certifying organisations: they draw up and manage the standards.
A scheme manager is responsible for keeping the certification system up to date and developing it further based on positive and negative signals from stakeholders.
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