A30: Yes. The validity of the FAQ published on www.iaffaq.com website are confirmed, until a different official communication from IAF.
In all locations which do not have Covid-19 access restrictions, activity such as on-site audits shall continue according to usual procedures
A29: See below the list of the recognized ABs under the IAF MLA Medical Devices Management Systems (MDMS) sub-scope and the links to their accredited bodies databases where you can find the certification bodies accredited to provide ISO 13485 certification.
You can also check the IAF Certsearch database which, although incomplete at this time, currently includes 2593 ISO 13485 certificates worldwide from 150 accredited certification bodies for ISO 13485 scopes.
https://www.iafcertsearch.org/
A11: No, IAF ID3:2011 is primarily applicable for management systems certification, but it can be applied to all the accreditation and conformity assessment activities under the IAF MLA (see IAF ID3:2011 para. 1):
A9: Yes. It is applicable. IAF General Assembly Resolution 2015–15 was taken to confirm this. For the maintenance of IAF Technical Committee documents it states: “The General Assembly, acting on the recommendation of the Technical Committee, resolved that references to ISO/IEC 17021 in IAF documents shall be understood to refer to ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015 in relation to CABs that have completed the transition and after the transition period. However, ABs and CABs will need to take account of the changes in ISO/IEC 17021-1 when using IAF documents which may not be revised until after the transition period to reference ISO/IEC 17021-1.”
No, these meetings have been cancelled and not being re-scheduled. The work will be progressed by other means.
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