OIML G18 Controlled Vocabulary Julia Neumann 2022-12-16 2023-01-02 10:32:57 en-EN audit #00177 Internal audits, sometimes called “first-party audits”, are conducted by, or on behalf of, the organization itself for internal purposes and can form the basis of an organization’s self- declaration of conformity. External audits include what are generally termed “second-” or “third-party audits”. Second-party audits are conducted by parties having an interest in the organization, such as customers, or by other persons on their behalf. Third-party audits are conducted by external independent organizations. Such organizations provide certification or registration of conformity with requirements such as those of ISO 9001 and ISO 14001:1996. When quality and environmental management systems are audited together, this is termed a “combined audit”. When two or more auditing organizations cooperate to audit a single auditee jointly, this is termed “joint audit”. systematic, independent and documented process for obtaining audit evidence and evaluating it objectively to determine the extent to which audit criteria are fulfilled [ISO 9000:2000, 3.9.1] 2022-12-19 09:13:28