Confirmation of the competence of auditors, experts and industry specialists, and recognition of the training organisations that prepare them. Records of attested persons are published in the EAACR register.
The Attestation Committee works along two strands. The first is people: auditors, experts, assessors and industry specialists, whose competence is confirmed separately from the accreditation of the organisation that employs them.
The second is training organisations. The committee verifies that a training centre meets quality standards in training and professional services. On recognition the centre receives a certificate and its details are entered in the EAACR register.
The link between the two is direct: an attested specialist comes out of a recognised centre. Controlling people without controlling how they are trained produces results one generation of auditors late.
Each standard has three programmes for different purposes: for those who carry out external audits, for internal auditors, and for those implementing a system in their own organisation.
Four functions of the committee. The first two concern specialists, the third training centres, and the fourth makes the result public.
A global database of attested specialists and recognised training centres. Accredited certificates issued by certification bodies are checked there as well. The requirements for maintaining the register are based on ISO/IEC 17021-1.