ISO/IEC TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION TS 17021-4 First edition 2013-10-01 Conformity assessment - Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of management systems - Part 4: Competence requirements for auditing and certification of event sustainability management systems Evaluation de la conformité - Exigences pour les organismes procedant a I'audit et a la certification des systemes de management Partie 4: Exigences de compétence pour I'audit et la certification des systemes de management responsable appliqués a I'activite événementielle Reference number IS0/IECTS17021-4:2013(E) F @ IS0 2013 cense from IHS Not for Resale IS0/IECTS17021-4:2013(E) COPYRIGHTPROTECTEDDOCUMENT ISO2013 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized otherwise in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, or posting on the internet or an intranet, without prior written permission. Permission can be requested from either ISO at the address below or ISO's member body in the country of the requester. ISOcopyrightoffice Case postale 56:CH-1211 Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax +4122 749 09 47 E-mail [email protected] Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland @ IS0 2013 - All rights reserved No reproductic networking permitted without license from IHS Not for Resale IS0/IEC TS 17021-4:2013(E) Contents Page Foreword ..iv Introduction. ..V 1 Scope. ..1 2 Normative references 3 Terms and definitions 4 Generic ESMS competence requirements .2 4.1 General .2 4.2 Event and event sustainability terminology .3 4.3 Sustainability context. 3 4.4 Sustainable development principles 3 4.5 Event sustainability design, planning and delivery 4 4.6 Techniques for identification of sustainable development issues and the evaluation of theirsignificance. 4 4.7 Legal and other requirements 4 4.8 Venue characteristics 4 4.9 Operational control. .4 4.10 Event sustainability metrics, measurement and monitoring techniques 4.11 Event sustainability performance evaluation .4 5 Event specific competence requirements for the audit team 5 5.1 General. .5 5.2 Environment .5 5.3 Economic. 5.4 Social. .6 Annex A (informative) Example of typical event functional activities. ..7 Bibliography .8 iii se with ISt thout license from IHS Not for Resale