ISO/TC 207/SC 7/JWG 6 - Joint TC 207/SC 7 - CASCO WG: Verification and validation of environmental information

This document specifies principles and requirements for bodies performing validation and verification of environmental information statements. Any programme requirements related to bodies are additional to the requirements of this document. This document is a sector application of ISO/IEC 17029:2019, which contains general principles and requirements for the competence, consistent operation and impartiality of bodies performing validation/verification as conformity assessment activities. This document includes sector-specific requirements in addition to the requirements of ISO/IEC 17029:2019.

This document specifies principles and requirements and provides guidance for verifying and validating greenhouse gas (GHG) statements. It is applicable to organization, project and product GHG statements. The ISO 14060 family of standards is GHG programme neutral. If a GHG programme is applicable, requirements of that GHG programme are additional to the requirements of the ISO 14060 family of standards.

This document provides guidance for conducting verification and validation of greenhouse gas statements (claims) using of remote methods. It is applicable to all organizations and products that need to plan and conduct internal or external verification/validation (i.e. 1st, 2nd , 3rd party) of greenhouse gas statements. This document additionally provides competence for verifier/validator in the use of remote method. This document is intended to strengthen reliability in verifying or validating greenhouse gas statements using remote methods among clients, intended users, responsible parties, regulators, accreditation bodies, verification and validation bodies, scheme owners, industry, employees, manufacturer, consumers and other interested parties. The use of remote methods in carrying out verification and validation of greenhouse gas statements is not intended to replace general onsite verification or validation as the default method. This document is applicable whether a verification or validation process uses remote methods only or combination methods of remote and onsite. This document is applied to any greenhouse gas programme (see definition 3.19., a draft attached). This document provides guidance in addition to the requirements in of ISO 14065, ISO 14066 and ISO 14064-3.