Publicizing your ISO 9001:2008 or ISO 14001:2004 certification

Table of contents

1. Introduction
2. In brief
3. ISO's logo
4. Be precise !
5. Certification, registration and accreditation
6. The little difference that means a lot
7. Process, not product standards
8. Scope of certification

Be precise !

Formerly, when there were three certification standards in the ISO 9000 family, the phrase «ISO 9000 certification» was often used as a convenient short way of referring to certification to the 1994 versions of ISO 9001, ISO 9002 or ISO 9003. References to «ISO 14000 certification» have also been common, even though ISO 14001:1996 was the only certification standard in the ISO 14000 family.

Now, both the ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 families contain only one certification standard each. ISO 9001:2008 has replaced the 2000 versions and ISO 14001:2004 has replaced ISO 14001:1996.

In order to avoid any ambiguity about whether the old or new versions are being referred to, use of the phrases "ISO 9000 certification" and "ISO 14000 certification" should now be discontinued. For the same reason, "ISO 9001 certification" and "ISO 14001 certification" should also now be discontinued.

From now on, only "ISO 9001:2008 certification" and "ISO 14001:2004 certification" should be used to refer to the latest, improved versions.

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