Other changes include a change in reference of "personnel certification body" to "certification body for persons", defining of additional terms such as "validity" and "reliability", and the addition of a "principles" section that defines the foundational principles for the standard.
Resource requirements include criteria for the personnel and staff of the certification body.
The requirements include criteria relating to the records of applicants, candidates and certified persons.
Criteria for suspending, withdrawing or reducing the scope of certification and recertification requirements are included in this section.
Released by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 2003, ISO/IEC 17024 was designed to harmonize the personnel certification process worldwide.
The issues that ISO/IEC 17024 tackles can be summarized as: Where competency is typically described as "the demonstrated ability to apply knowledge, skills and attributes".