AS/NZS ISO 9000(INT):2000

Provides guidance on the fundamentals of quality management systems as described in the ISO 9000 family of Standards and specifies a vocabulary of terms for quality management systems. This Interim Standard is identical with ISO/DIS 9000:2000.

This International Standard specifies terminology for quality management systems, which form the subject of the ISO 9000 family, and describes the related fundamentals.
This International Standard is applicable to the following:
a) organizations seeking advantage through the implementation of a quality management system;

b) organizations seeking confidence from their suppliers that their product requirements will be satisfied;
c) users of the products;

d) those concerned with a mutual understanding of the terminology used in quality management (e.g. suppliers, customers, regulators);
e) those internal or external to the organization who assess the quality management system or audit it for conformance to the requirements of ISO 9001 (e.g. auditors, regulators, certification/registration bodies);
f) those internal or external to the organization who give advice on the quality management system appropriate to that organization;
g) developers of related standards

First published in Australia as part of AS 1057-1971.
Second edition 1982.
Third edition 1985.
AS 3900/ISO 9000 first published in Australia 1987.
First published in New Zealand as part of NZS 5604:1987.
NZS 5600.1 first published 1987.
AS 3900-1987/ISO 9000:1987 and NZS 5600.1:1987 redesignated in 1990 as Joint Standard AS 3900-1987/NZS 9000:1990/ISO 9000:1987.
Redesignated in 1992 as Joint Standard AS 3900.1-1987/NZS 9000:1990/ISO 9000:1987.
Jointly revised and redesignated AS/NZS ISO 9000.1:1994.
AS 1057-1985 and NZS 5604:1987 jointly revised, amalgamated and redesignated in part as AS/NZS ISO 8402:1994.
AS/NZS ISO 8402:1994 and AS/NZS ISO 9000.1:1994 revised, amalgamated and redesignated AS/NZS ISO 9000(Int):2000.