Exclusion to Data Obligations

According to clause 5.2 CB Justification for Exclusion of the IAF MD: 2023, CB may not be able to perform some or all of its data obligations:

• Those CBs that have an accepted exclusion will provide at least quarterly, aggregated analytical data to IAF Database including the number of certifications for each standard and/or other normative document, scope, sector and geographical location (including the number of sites within the scope of a multi-site certification), to support aggregated analytics for all CBs and ABs.

With that, the system provides a way for the AB to manually define who are the CBs who want to be excluded from the data obligations.

To exclude a CB from the data obligations:

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Navigate to the Certification Bodies Listing page.

2

Locate and select the Certification Body (CB) that has requested exclusion.

3

Go to the Participation Status section within the CB's profile.

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Click the Edit button to enable modifications.

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Check the Excluded checkbox to update the CB's status.

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Click the Save changes button

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A modal should ask you if want to continue excluding the CB, if yes click the Confirm button

Once done, the CB status will then be updated with the following status:

• Non-Participating, Conformance, which remains valid until the end of the current quarter.

• When the grace period expires, the CB status will be updated based on their data compliance for that quarter.

• If the CB uploads aggregated data during the quarter, their status will remain as is.

• If the CB does not upload aggregated data to the IAF CertSearch database, their status will change as Non-Participating, Non-Conformance.