Partnership problems raised by certification bodies
(May.4w,2005)

1. Relation with Partnership and added value assessments
Many certification bodies in Japan propose gpartnershiph with clients. gPartnershiph is another word of value-added assessments. Therefore it has the same problems with value-added assessments (refer to gStill stick to gvalue-added assessment; Apr.3w, 2004h in Scenes of assessment corner on this web-site).

This also remind me Enron problems in U.S.A. (refer to gEx-ISO Secretary-General required for accreditation bodies to weed out malpractice: 2002, July.3wh in Scenes of assessment corner on this web-site).

2. A claim made by Company T
An assessor said in his assessment report of the company that it was a part of partnership between the company and his certification body.
But the content of the report was full of confusion between nonconformities and observations and it contained enforcement of heavy wasteful documentation for the company.
So the president of the company made a claim that he did not want such a partnership and instead he required assessment for conformity only would be satisfactory.