Interested party / Stakeholder

Person or organization (3.2.1) that can affect, be affected by, or perceive itself to be affected by a decision or activity EXAMPLE:Customers (3.2.4), owners, people in an organization, providers (3.2.5), bankers, regulators, unions, partners or society that can include competitors or opposing pressure groups. Note 1 to entry: This constitutes one of the common terms and core definitions for ISO management system standards given in Annex SL of the Consolidated ISO Supplement to the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 1. The original definition has been modified by adding the Example.