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inspection scheme

inspection programme
set of rules and procedures that describes the item (3.8), identifies the specified requirements and provides the methodology for performing inspection (3.1) 

Note 1 to entry: Inspection schemes can be operated at the international, regional, national, sub-national or industry sector level.

Note 2 to entry: A scheme that includes inspection can provide methodology for activities in either all or only in some of the conformity assessment functions (see ISO/IEC 17000:2020, Annex A). It can include methodology for inspection only (a determination function activity) or for other determination function activities. The scheme can include methodology for selection function activities and, in addition, it can include methodology for review, decision, attestation function activities

Note 3 to entry: The inspection scheme can specify independence requirements.

[SOURCE: ISO/IEC 17000:2020, 4.9, modified — In the preferred term and the admitted term, "conformity assessment" has been replaced by "inspection"; in the definition, "objects of conformity assessment" has been replaced by "item"; "conformity assessment" has been replaced by "inspection"; the original three Notes to entry have been replaced by three new ones.]

Committee
Interdisciplinary
Date Added to Lexicon
Standard Source (Designation Number Title of Standard. Publisher, Place, Year.)
ISO 17020:2026 Conformity assessment — Requirements for bodies performing inspection. International Organization for Standardization BIBC II, Chemin de Blandonnet 8, CP 401, 1214 Vernier, Geneva, Switzerland, 2026. Source link
Reprinted, with permission, from ISO, copyright International Organization for Standardization, 1214 Vernier, Geneva, Switzerland. A copy of the complete standard may be purchased from ISO, https://www.iso.org/store.html
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