Accreditation and Certification Council

Mandate

This council supervises accreditation frameworks, quality controls, evaluation integrity, and appeals intake related to issuers, assessors, and certification pathways. It administers the Article IX certification doctrine and the Article X accreditation framework: evidence before certification, lifecycle-aware status, and no false permanence.

Responsibilities

• Supervision of accreditation frameworks for issuers, assessors, verifiers, and conformity partners
• Quality controls and evaluation integrity across certification pathways
• Accreditation review, renewal, suspension, and revocation procedures (Article X, Section 4)
• Public visibility of material accreditation status (Article X, Section 5)
• Appeals intake for accreditation and certification matters

Composition

Constituted to be independent of the parties it evaluates: conflict-of-interest controls, role separation from accredited bodies, and reviewable procedure are constitutive requirements (Articles X and XV).