Designing your own certification scheme

The International Standardisation Organisation (ISO), which cooperates with the WTO (World Trade Organisation), provides guidelines how a certification scheme should be built.
It is important to take this into account, so that the newly developed certification scheme will not form a trade barrier (TBT).


The ISO guides are:

  • ISO Guide 59, guidelines for standard development
  • ISO Guide 6
  • ISO Guide 62
  • ISO Guide 65
  • ISO 14012
  • ISO 14020
  • ISO 14021
  • ISO 14024
  • ISO / TR 14025

These manuals can be requested via the ISO website

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International Organization for Standardization