The “General Rules” systematically reshape certification agencies' qualification license examinations. The core adjustments can be summarized using “four enhancements”: the first is to strengthen the unification of examination procedures and implement a “trinity” substantive review. The admission review process has been unified, and it is clear that the qualification license review includes the three stages of material review, on-site inspection, and expert review. The material review was upgraded from a “formal review” to a substantive review of completeness, standardization, and compliance, clarifying the focus of on-site inspection and expert review when necessary. The on-site inspection focuses on verifying the consistency between the application materials and the actual situation, and verifying the conformity and compatibility of certification capabilities. The expert review focuses on independent evaluation of technical capabilities or key professional elements such as certification, testing, and inspection. The second is to strengthen personnel competency requirements and raise professional team standards. In evaluating employees' abilities, more emphasis is placed on professional work experience and professional qualifications. It is clear that there are no less than 4 full-time personnel engaged in key positions in certification and review, and must have valid official registration qualifications in the corresponding field. Key positions engaged in other certification businesses should have obtained official registration qualifications as certification auditors. By raising the threshold for practitioners, ensure that certification activities are carried out by people with real professional abilities. The third is to strengthen the implementation of quality responsibilities and establish mandatory key positions. Certification bodies are required to establish certification quality directors and project quality managers. The quality director must be a senior manager and bears the main management responsibility for the quality certification of the entire organization; the project quality manager must have obtained official registration qualifications in the corresponding field, have no records of major violations of laws and regulations during his career, and bear direct responsibility for the quality of specific certification projects. Through the establishment of key positions, the quality responsibility chain where “the head of the agency bears the overall responsibility and the project leader bears the main responsibility” is consolidated. Fourth, strengthen the control of entry conditions and make up for shortcomings in supporting capacity. Agencies are clearly required to have their own websites to provide inquiries about the validity of certification certificates to the public, establish and operate committees to ensure impartiality, formulate and publish model certification contracts to the public, and have the ability to independently formulate certification rules. For product certification bodies, it is clearly required that the scope of their testing capabilities must cover the specific product applied for, that the inspection and testing resources must be their own resources, or that they must sign a stable entrustment agreement of not less than 3 years with a qualified agency to ensure “inspection and recognition”.

The “General Rules” systematically reshape certification agencies' qualification license examinations. The core adjustments can be summarized using “four enhancements”: the first is to strengthen the unification of examination procedures and implement a “trinity” substantive review. The admission review process has been unified, and it is clear that the qualification license review includes the three stages of material review, on-site inspection, and expert review. The material review was upgraded from a “formal review” to a substantive review of completeness, standardization, and compliance, clarifying the focus of on-site inspection and expert review when necessary. The on-site inspection focuses on verifying the consistency between the application materials and the actual situation, and verifying the conformity and compatibility of certification capabilities. The expert review focuses on independent evaluation of technical capabilities or key professional elements such as certification, testing, and inspection. The second is to strengthen personnel competency requirements and raise professional team standards. In evaluating employees' abilities, more emphasis is placed on professional work experience and professional qualifications. It is clear that there are no less than 4 full-time personnel engaged in key positions in certification and review, and must have valid official registration qualifications in the corresponding field. Key positions engaged in other certification businesses should have obtained official registration qualifications as certification auditors. By raising the threshold for practitioners, ensure that certification activities are carried out by people with real professional abilities. The third is to strengthen the implementation of quality responsibilities and establish mandatory key positions. Certification bodies are required to establish certification quality directors and project quality managers. The quality director must be a senior manager and bears the main management responsibility for the quality certification of the entire organization; the project quality manager must have obtained official registration qualifications in the corresponding field, have no records of major violations of laws and regulations during his career, and bear direct responsibility for the quality of specific certification projects. Through the establishment of key positions, the quality responsibility chain where “the head of the agency bears the overall responsibility and the project leader bears the main responsibility” is consolidated. Fourth, strengthen the control of entry conditions and make up for shortcomings in supporting capacity. Agencies are clearly required to have their own websites to provide inquiries about the validity of certification certificates to the public, establish and operate committees to ensure impartiality, formulate and publish model certification contracts to the public, and have the ability to independently formulate certification rules. For product certification bodies, it is clearly required that the scope of their testing capabilities must cover the specific product applied for, that the inspection and testing resources must be their own resources, or that they must sign a stable entrustment agreement of not less than 3 years with a qualified agency to ensure “inspection and recognition”.