Bahamas Bureau of Standards and Quality (BBSQ) is mandated to develop, adopt and promulgate standards for such goods and services as may be required in the national interest.

• Comment Sheet for Public Comments

The following FDBNS are being issued for public comment, in accordance with the provisions set out in the Standards Act, Chapter 338 (2006), and in keeping with international best practices and the standards development procedures:

1. ISO/IEC 17067:2013 Conformity Assessment -- Fundamentals of Product Certification and Guidelines for Product Certifications Schemes
2. ISO/IEC 17065:2012 Conformity Assessment – Requirements for Bodies Certifying Products, Processes and Services
3. ISO/IEC 17040:2005 Conformity Assessment – General Requirements for Peer Assessment of Conformity Assessment Bodies and Accreditation Bodies
4. ISO/IEC 17043:2010 Conformity Assessment – General Requirements for Proficiency Testing
5. ISO/IEC 17030:2003 Conformity Assessment – General Requirements for Third Party Marks of Conformity
6. ISO/IEC 17025:2017 Conformity Assessment – General Requirements for The Competence of Testing And Calibration Laboratories
7. ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015 Conformity Assessment – Requirements for Bodies providing Audit and Certification of Management Systems – Part 1: Requirements
8. ISO/IEC 17021-2:2016 Conformity Assessment – Requirements for Bodies providing Audit and Certification of Management Systems – Part 2: Competence Requirements for Auditing  and Certification of Environmental Management  Systems
9. ISO/IEC 17021-3:2017 Conformity Assessment – Requirements for Bodies providing Audit and Certification of Management Systems – Part 3: Competence Requirements for Auditing and Certification of Quality Management Systems
10. ISO 13485:2015 Medical Devices – Quality Management Systems – Requirements for Regulatory Purposes
11. ISO 22870:2016 Point-of-Care Testing (POCT) Requirements for Quality and Competence
12. ISO/IEC 17000:2004 Conformity Assessment  - Vocabulary and General Principals
13. ISO/IEC 17007:2009 Conformity Assessment – Requirements Guidance for Drafting Normative Documents suitable foe use for Conformity Assessment
14. ISO/IEC 17011:2017  Conformity Assessment – Requirements for Accreditation Bodies Accrediting  Conformity Assessment Bodies

Copies of the FDBNS are available for viewing at the Bahamas Bureau of Standards and Quality’s Office, Source River Centre, 1000 Bacardi Road and local Government Offices. Further, information on the standards will be available on BBSQ’s website: www.bbsq.bs and The Government’s website: www.bahamas.gov.bs 

Please submit your comments in writing to:

Dr. Renae Ferguson- Bufford
Bahamas Bureau of Standards and Quality
P.O. Box N-4843 Nassau, N.P. Bahamas
Email: info@bbsq.bs Telephone: (242) 362-1748 thru 55

The deadline date for submission of comment/s on the above standards for identical adoptions is 31^st October, 2019