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Setup a project sponsor, a project manager and a project team. Ensure top management support, get training and as a first step perform a Gap analysis, to determine the amount of work to be done - comparing what your organization already has in place versus ISO 9001:2015 requirements. From that GAP Analysis you can develop your Project Plan, listing what needs to be done, by whom, until when.
Then, an important step is to design a model of how your organization work as a set of interrelated processes. For example:
Decide how to describe, procedures and/or work instructions, and monitor those processes. You can accelerate implementation by customizing a documentation set like our ISO 9001:2015 Documentation Toolkit - https://advisera.com/9001academy/iso-9001-documentation-toolkit/
From there it is implementation in order to close the gaps found. Then, perform an internal audit and the management review. There you can decide if your organization is ready for a certification audit.
This is a very short description of the journey but below you can find more detailed information:
In order to be compliant, you need to appoint a representative in the EU this is an obligation of the controller stated in Article 27 GDPR and you should appoint it in Ireland since you are going to store data in that country. In fact, according to Article 27 paragraph 3 GDPR “The representative shall be established in one of the Member States where the data subjects, whose personal data are processed in relation to the offering of goods or services to them, or whose behavior is monitored, are.”
You don’t need a representative if the processing:
Appointing a representative is not too difficult, you require a service contract with an individual, a company, or organization established in the EU, who must be able to represent you regarding your obligations under the EU GDPR (e.g. a law firm, consultancy or private company).
Of course, you need also to comply with all the GDPR requirements.
You can find more information here:
You can also consider enrolling in our free EU GDPR Foundations Course
EU GDPR Foundations Course: https://advisera.com/training/eu-gdpr-foundations-course//
The (E) complement at the end of the name of the standard means the language on which it was written was English. According to the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 1 Consolidated ISO Supplement, ISO official languages are English (E), French (F), and Russian (R): https://www.iso.org/sites/directives/current/consolidated/index.xhtml
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You can also present it in some chart, in the table or just in the text where you will describe the roles of a particular entity.
For more details on responsibilities among this entities, please see following articles in MDR 2017/745