Ernst & Young CertifyPoint
Ernst & Young CertifyPoint is an independent and impartial certification institute. We focus on arranging, managing and utilizing certification frameworks and systems for quality and environmental assurance systems, information security management systems, Labor Law and security systems.
Certification is performed, based on an accepted standard. The following activities are performed within CertifyPoint to achieve company goals across:
- Determining your company’s readiness for certification (pre-certification audit);
- Certification audits (stage 1 audits, stage 2 audits, surveillance audits, recertification audits)
- Follow-up of detected shortcomings and/or non-conformities for certification
About Ernst & Young Certifypoint
Ernst & Young CertifyPoint is responsible for decisions about the granting, maintaining, extending, restricting, postponing and withdrawing of certifications. We perform the total certification path in accordance with procedures and guidelines which are included in specific quality manuals per ‘type’ of certification, for example certification of quality management systems like ISO/IEC27001.
All activities of CertifyPoint take place within the scope of the policy and procedures as stated in its complete quality manual.
We organize information workshops about certifications against specific standards. We also regularly publish about our interpretation of accepted standards.
Statement of management commitment to impartiality
The following statement by the Director of CertifyPoint is made public to show the importance of impartiality for CertifyPoint.
“The management of CertifyPoint wants to convey to all relevant parties that it understands the importance of impartiality in carrying out our certification activities with regard to management system certification (like ISO/IEC27001 and ISO/IEC20000 certification). CertifyPoint has defined and implemented extensive measures to prevent any possible conflict of interest to ensure the objectivity of our certification activities which are described in our quality manual which have been evaluated and accredited by the Dutch Accreditation Council.”
