ISO/IEC 17067 Revision: What the New Edition Changes

The ISO/IEC 17067 revision has been published as a second edition, replacing ISO/IEC 17067:2013. For any organisation that develops, operates or maintains a conformity assessment scheme, it is now the current reference for the principles and concepts those schemes are built on.

What is ISO/IEC 17067 and what does it cover?

ISO/IEC 17067 is titled Conformity assessment — Fundamentals of and guidelines for conformity assessment schemes. Its scope is to specify the fundamental principles and concepts of conformity assessment schemes (programmes) and to provide guidelines for understanding, developing, operating or maintaining them. That makes it a reference document rather than a checklist: it sets out the thinking behind a scheme before an organisation designs, runs or maintains one. The document belongs to the conformity assessment family of standards and was prepared by ISO/CASCO.

What changed in the ISO/IEC 17067 revision?

The headline change is the edition itself. The second edition was published on 21 October 2026 and replaces ISO/IEC 17067:2013, so any internal document, procedure or tender response that still cites the 2013 text is pointing at a superseded edition.

The published scope tells you where to concentrate your review. The second edition covers the fundamental principles and concepts of schemes, together with guidelines for understanding, developing, operating or maintaining them. If your organisation owns scheme documentation, that is the ground to check against the new edition rather than relying on how the 2013 text was applied.

Item	Detail
Reference	ISO/IEC 17067
Title	Conformity assessment — Fundamentals of and guidelines for conformity assessment schemes
Current edition	Second edition
Published	21 October 2026
Previous edition	ISO/IEC 17067:2013
Committee	ISO/CASCO
Scope	Fundamental principles and concepts of conformity assessment schemes (programmes); guidelines for understanding, developing, operating or maintaining them

Who is affected by the ISO/IEC 17067 revision?

The document speaks to schemes, so the people affected are the ones who shape them. That includes anyone who develops a scheme, anyone who operates one day to day, and anyone who maintains scheme documentation once it is in use.

In practical terms, the ISO/IEC 17067 revision lands on the desks of business owners and of the quality, HSE, information security, compliance and IT managers who hold scheme documentation. If your organisation refers to ISO/IEC 17067 when describing how a scheme is structured or governed, the reference needs to reflect the second edition. If your organisation is certified under a scheme and does not develop or operate one, your interest is in checking that the scheme owner is working from the current edition.

What should organisations do now?

1. Confirm which edition you cite. Search your management system documentation, procedures, forms, supplier questionnaires and bid templates for references to ISO/IEC 17067, and note whether each one points to the 2013 edition or to the second edition.
2. Identify every scheme you develop, operate or maintain. List them explicitly, because the document’s guidance applies to schemes (programmes) as a whole rather than to a single activity within one.
3. Read the second edition against your scheme documentation. Work through the scope topics — principles and concepts, and the guidelines for understanding, developing, operating or maintaining a scheme — and record where your documentation already aligns and where it is silent.
4. Brief the document owners. Quality, compliance, HSE, information security and IT managers usually hold different pieces of the same scheme, so agree one owner for the update and one record of what has been reviewed.
5. Update the references and log the date. Change the edition cited, keep the review record with the scheme documentation, and make sure the next internal review picks up anything you decided to defer.

Frequently asked questions

What is ISO/IEC 17067?

It is the standard titled Conformity assessment — Fundamentals of and guidelines for conformity assessment schemes, prepared by ISO/CASCO as part of the conformity assessment family of standards. It specifies the fundamental principles and concepts of conformity assessment schemes (programmes). It also provides guidelines for understanding, developing, operating or maintaining them.

When was the ISO/IEC 17067 revision published?

The second edition was published on 21 October 2026. It replaces ISO/IEC 17067:2013, which is now the previous edition. Organisations that cite the standard should move their references to the second edition.

Does the ISO/IEC 17067 revision affect our existing certificates?

The document provides fundamentals and guidelines for conformity assessment schemes, so its direct audience is those who develop, operate or maintain a scheme. Whether a particular certificate or mark is affected depends on the scheme it was issued under. The practical step is to check which edition the scheme owner is working from and to keep your own references current.

How ITMAD can help

ITMAD works with organisations that use or are certified to international standards, and we can support your response to the ISO/IEC 17067 revision through certification and training. Our training helps teams understand what the fundamentals of a conformity assessment scheme mean for their own documentation, while our certification services give you an independent view of how your arrangements hold together. Whether you are updating references across a large documentation set or briefing a single scheme owner, we can shape the support around the schemes you actually run.