scope:

This European Standard specifies the minimum requirements for expertise services carried out by individual persons and/or group of such expert individuals for a customer.

The objective is to standardize expertise services thus enabling the delivery within a specified context of the most accurate and reliable answer to a raised query.

Specific requirements of this European Standard do not apply to expertise services where obligatory contractual and / or a legal framework and regulations exist; for instance in consulting, inspection and judicial litigation.