For many years, ISO/IEC Guideincluded a core vocabulary for conformity assessment, built up from a ISO/IEC redline(E) Introduction Terms and definitions applicable to conformity assessment ISO and ISO/IEC Guides and, more recently, International Standards relating generically to conformity assessment activities such as testing, inspection and various forms of certification are prepared by ISO/IEC (E) Foreword. ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) and IEC (the International El