As far as I am concerned, this registrar is in violation of bodies that the represent. If they do not cooperate and audit only to the standard itself, then I would report them to the appropriate governing bodies. This has nothing to do with Mgmt Review. It has everything to do with an objective and ethical audit process under the rules of the standard. What other registrar-imposed "shalls" will these clowns spring on you in the future ? Will they threaten your badge because they don't like the format of your process instructions ? Or your PM’s are not, in their opinion, frequent enough ?
If they can’t cite you verbatim from the standard itself, then you have zero obligation, period !
I don’t know about the rest of the gang, but it’s painful enough to struggle day in, day out for commitment from a pathetic and dimwitted management team. Now we will add more worthless tasks from an outside facsimile thereof ?
Another one of the many reasons why the registration process should be abolished, completely. Paying a lot of $$$ for more useless, opinion driven, busy-work, by a hapless auditor, yielding a negative return for YOU !
JMHO. Have a day !