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An ISO 9001 audit can be seen as an independent risk assessment on the business, where each 'Nonconformity" or "Opportunity For Improvement" is considered as a potential risk. Nevertheless, their actual impact on the business remains difficult to determine; as a consequence, the urgency of a mitigation plan at corporate level can sometimes be underestimated. This paper proposes a semi-quantitative risk assessment methodology on the ISO 9001 findings relying on a selected panel of experts. The experts' responses are analyzed and validated using a specific statistics test for inter-rater reliability. The proposed methodology has been applied on real findings coming from ISO 9001 internal audits, involving 10 subject matter experts of 7 different countries.