April 13, 2021
Fiscal 2021 Business Plan
JIS Certification Body Association
1. Action policy
In FY 2021, activities based on the purpose of the establishment of the JIS Certification
Body Association, such as promoting the exchange of information between certification
bodies, which is the primary activity of the Association, and conducting joint activities tocarry out proper certification activities, shall continue to be developed from the previous
fiscal year.
The Board of Secretaries and the Technical Review Committee deliberate the problems,requests, and complaints presented by the parties concerned in relation to the JIS Mark
Scheme in a practicable manner to improve the credibility of the scheme.
With regard to the dissemination activities of the JIS mark scheme, the dispatch ofmembers to the lecturer dispatching project and to JIS drafting committee will be regarded
as the core of the dissemination project, and efforts will be continued. In addition, the use of
IoT technology by both certified bodies and accredited certification bodies will also bediscussed.
2. Business Plan
2.1 Promotion of information exchange among members
・The Board of Secretaries shall share the issues faced by each member and desires andcomplaints from certified bodies, etc. and conduct deliberations to resolve the issues andfoster a common awareness.
・Issues that have been commonly recognized by the Board of Secretaries and havebecome rules or have a certain direction (policy) shall be disseminated to the member
bodies at the Liaison Committee of Members and other venues, and those that can bepublicized shall be actively disseminated through JISCBA website.
・Consider the construction of a materials base for retrieval of data managed by JISCBA.
2.2 Response to requests and inquiries of opinions from competent authorities, submissionof proposals and requests to competent authorities, etc.

・Continue exchanging information such as the context of symbols on the displays ofcertified bodies.
・Examine the implementation deadline for periodic certification maintenance audits.
Disseminate the contents of activities to all members, such as the documents revised in FY
2020 and the newly established guidelines
・In addition, appropriate measures shall be taken as necessary.
2.3 Consideration of requests, complaints, and requests from industry and other parties
Requests to be shared shall be examined as common issues, and the results shall beanswered to the industry, etc., and where necessary, published as interpretationcollections.
2.4 Responding to common issues for maintaining and improving the reliability of thescheme and JIS mark products
・Regarding the evaluation of JIS quality control managers of overseas certification
persons who are located in countries or regions where "seminars" that meet the training
standards for JIS quality control managers have not been held, examine whether or notthere are current issues and confirm necessary matters as common awareness.
・Consider measures to be taken by accredited certification bodies for non-conformity oflabeling and compile them as guidelines.
・Other issues identified as necessary are addressed.
2.5 Dispatch of lecturers
JISCBA will dispatch instructors to seminars and training sessions for judges on the JIS
marking scheme sponsored by the Japanese Standards Association.
2.6 Program to promote the JIS marking scheme・Instructors will be dispatched based on the lecturer dispatching business described in 2.5
above.
・The committee members shall be dispatched to JIS drafting committee set forth in 2.7 of
the following paragraph.

・In addition, when requested by the parties concerned, the measures shall be considered
as necessary.
2.7 Technical review committee
Working groups in each field, including ongoing operations from the previous fiscal year,will work on the following.
(1)Dispatch of committee members to JIS drafting committee
Finally decide the members to be dispatched to the drafting committee, and the committee
will make proposals as an accredited certification body based on a "cross-sectional
proposal" and a transitional period, and evaluate the results.
(2) Prior Review of the contents of extraordinal certification maintenance review inaccordance with the revision of standard
In the event that the revision of the standard is significant and it is judged that it isnecessary to avoid differences among bodies in the extraordinal certification maintenancereview, the contents of the certification maintenance audit shall be examined in advance toensure consistency.
(3) Revision of JISCBA Certification Guidelines
Perform revisions to the certification guidelines that have been published as necessary,
which are linked to the revision of the relevant standards.
(4) Interpretation of technical matters and industry response(5) Other matters to be consulted by the Board of Secretaries3. FY 2021 Action Plan
Committee names

Times per year

Frequency

The general meeting

once

once a year

The board of secretaries

6 times

once every two months

The Liaison Committee of Members

once

once a year

Technical review committee

3 times

once every four months*WGs will be held as necessary