Action required

Effective immediately, all Management Systems Certifications Bodies operating in the field of Sustainable Forest management Sector Schemes must cease referring to CAN-P-1517:2013 Appendix H and now refer to SCC Requirements and Guidance for the Management Systems Accreditation Program: Sustainable Forest Management Sector Schemes.

Management Systems Accreditation Program Customers,

SCC has approved for publication CAN-P-1517:2013, Conditions and Procedures for the Accreditation of Bodies certifying Management Systems. The major change in this new version is the addition of Annex H, which outlines the Sustainable Forest Management Sector Schemes.

Along with the addition of Annex H, we have made editorial changes to the rest of CAN-P-1517 to correct outdated references to normative documents, SCC documents, and administrative details such as staff titles, along with some formatting changes.

Management Systems Accreditation Program Customers – EMS only,

The technical specification ISO/IEC TS 17021-2:2012, Conformity assessment – Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of management systems – Part 2: Competence requirements for auditing and certification of environmental management systems was published August 15, 2012. In accordance with the IAF Resolution 2012-12, IAF members, including the Standards Council of Canada agreed to endorse Part 2 as a normative document and to implement a two-year transition period.

For SCC Management Systems Accreditation Program customers, certifying Quality Management Systems,