July 9, 2003—Free, updated guidelines providing organizations with “good practice” for publicizing their certification to the ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 standards are now available on ISO’s (International Organization for Standardization) Web site. Among the updated guidance, ISO emphasizes that the ISO certification marks of conformity “are not to be displayed on products, or on product packaging, or in any way that may be interpreted as denoting product conformity.”
The guidelines are intended to help organizations apply good practice when communicating and promoting their certification to staff, customers, and business partners, and to the general public. Publicizing your ISO 9001 or ISO 14001 certification is currently available in electronic form only, although ISO may publish a paper version later in 2003.
