Entitled "Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of management systems (Part 1)", this is a standard by [[ISO|ISO]].
## Contents
1. General requirements, covering issues of impartiality as well as legal and contractual requirements
2. Structural requirements, including requirements on the exchange of information between the certifiying organisation and its client
3. Process requirements, which details all the steps required to actually do the audit
4. Management system requirements, which are requirements on how the audit body manages itself