(1) The function of a management system that provides confidence that specified requirements will be fulfilled. The IAEA is revising the requirements and guidance in the subject area of quality assurance as established in Safety Series No. 50-C/SG-Q (1996) for new safety standards on management systems for the safety of nuclear facilities and activities involving the use of ionizing radiation. The term ‘management system’ has been adopted in the revised standards instead of the terms ‘quality assurance’ and ‘quality assurance programme’. Planned and systematic actions are necessary to provide adequate confidence that an item, process or service will satisfy given requirements for quality; for example, those specified in the licence. This statement is slightly modified from that in ISO 921:1997 (Nuclear Energy: Vocabulary) to say ‘an item, process or service’ instead of ‘a product or service’ and to add the example. A more general definition of quality assurance and definitions of related terms can be found in ISO 8402:1994. (2) A systematic programme of controls and inspections applied by any organization or body involved in the transport of radioactive material which is aimed at providing adequate confidence that the standard of safety prescribed in these Regulations is achieved in practice. [] (3) All those planned and systematic actions necessary to provide confidence that a structure, system or component will perform satisfactorily in service. [ISO 6215:1980][]