ISO 9000 management system can be certified is ISO 9001:2015 (ISO 9001:2008 will expire by around September 2018). Many countries have formed accreditation bodies to authorize ("accredit") the certification bodies. Both the accreditation bodies and the certification bodies charge fees for their services. The various accreditation bodies have mutual agreements with each other to ensure that certificates issued by one of the accredited certification bodies (CB) are accepted worldwide. Certification bodies themselves operate under another quality standard, ISO/IEC 17021, while accreditation bodies operate under ISO/IEC 17011. An organization applying for ISO 9001 certification is audited based on an extensive sample of its
State Committee for Standards and Product Quality Management for Standardization"; the "Committee for Standards, Metrology, and Measuring Instruments"; the "State Committee for Standards"; the "State Committee for Standards and Product Quality Management". The agency received its nickname, "Gosstandart", in 1970. After the dissolution of the USSR, "Gosstandart" was merged with "Gosstandart Rossii" and today its name is Rostekhregulirovaniye. In Ukraine, Gosstandart became Derzhstandart, an abbreviation for "Derzhavnyy standart". State Committee for Standards and Product Quality Management Gosstandart () was the Soviet government agency responsible for standardization, metrology, and quality management. The name is an abbreviation for "Gosudarstvennyy standart" (‘State Standard’). Established in 1925 as a committee for standardization