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The World Standards Cooperation (WSC)

The leading international standardization organizations

 Multi-discipline and cross-sector

 For electrotechnology

 For telecommunications

Collaborate to meet the challenges of converging

technologies
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The ISO System
161 national members As at 20 April 2010
98% of world GDP
97% of world population

Collection of 18 083 1 038 standards

ISO Standards produced in 2009
• IT tools
• Standards
development
procedures
195 active TCs • Consensus Central
3 238 technical building Secretariat
bodies • Dissemination in Geneva
50 000 experts 153 FTE staff

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 ISO and conformity assessment

 Non acceptance of test reports

and certificates one of the
biggest obstacles to trade

 International recognition and

acceptance to be based on
confidence and good practices

 The way forward: implementing

the ISO/IEC Standards and
Guides, with a double level of
consensus, amongst countries
and across stakeholders
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The 1-1-1 dream of Conformity Assessment

1 1
Standard Accepted Test
everywhere

1
Conformity
Assessment
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 ISO/CASCO structure

 109 ISO members are

represented in CASCO
(69 participating members
and 41 observers).

 16 international
organizations are liaison
members of CASCO: BIPM,
CEOC, CAC, EOQ, Eurolab,
IAF, IEC, IFAN, IFIA, IIOC,
ILAC, INLAC, IPC, IQNet,
ITU-T, OIML, UILI, UNFCCC.

 Both policy and technical

work

 Continual improvement cycle

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The ISO/CASCO Toolbox

 The CASCO toolbox consists of 27 documents covering:


 Vocabulary, principles and common elements of conformity
assessment

 Code of good practice

 Product, system, and persons certification

 Testing, calibration, inspection, marks of conformity

 Supplier’s declaration of conformity, accreditation, peer

assessment, and mutual recognition arrangements

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 The “CASCO Toolbox” relationships…

Terms and definitions – ISO/IEC 17000 (2001)

Requirements for accreditation bodies –ISO/IEC 17011 (2004)

Mutual Recognition ISO/IEC 17040 (2005)

Requirements for Certification bodies
Requirements Requirements Conformity
for for
assessments
Management Persons Products
of suppliers
testing & Inspection
Systems
calibration bodies
Revision ISO/IEC
laboratories Part 2 in Agreed
preparations 17050-1

ISO/IEC
ISO/IEC ISO/IEC ISO/IEC ISO/IEC ISO/IEC 17050-2
Guide 65
17025 17020
17021 17024 (2004)
(2006) (2003) (2006)
(2005) (1998)

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CASCO Standards in Progress
 ISO/IEC 17021 Part 2 (CASCO WG 21), Conformity
assessment — Requirements for 3rd party certification auditing
of management systems (DIS – Dec. 2010)
 ISO/IEC 17065 (CASCO WG 29), Conformity assessment —
Requirements for certification bodies certifying products,
processes and services (CD - 2010)
 ISO/IEC 17024 (CASCO WG 30), Conformity assessment —
General requirements for bodies operating certification of
persons (WD - 2012)
 ISO/IEC 17020 (CASCO WG 31), Conformity assessment —
General criteria for the operation of various types of bodies
performing inspection (WD - 2012)
 ISO/IEC 17067 (CASCO WG 32), Conformity assessment –
Fundamentals of product certification (Product scheme
development) (WD - 2012)
 ISO/IEC TS 17022 (CASCO WG 33), Conformity assessment –
Third party management system audit reports (WD - 2012)
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 CASCO Working Groups
 ISO/CASCO P Members nominate to the WG.

 A-Liaison members nominate to WG. D-Liaison can be established

between an organization and a WG.

 They are nominated as experts and required to input as experts. WG

group members act as independent experts not as national delegates.

 The WG develops a Working draft document (WD). It evolves into a

Committee Draft (CD) document.

 The CD goes to member bodies who distribute to NMC (NMC) for CASCO.

 At this stage no longer the experts but the national consensus comments.

 Responsible for the development of the document (Standard/Guide) (DIS

and FDIS and publication).
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 Topical issues related
to conformity assessment
 IAF-ILAC-ISO action plan on monitoring
the effectiveness of accredited
management system certification

 Harmonized sanctions
 Develop metrics to measure CB’s level
of activity
 AB Assessor competence
 Validation audits
 Market feedback

 Transfer of knowledge through

 workshops on topical issues at every
CASCO plenary:
 2010 plenary – Risk and conformity
assessment.
 982,832 ISO 9001 certificates in
176 countries (in 2008)

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Topical issues related to conformity assessment

 Market surveillance – develop an information

document on Good Practice for use by
developing economies and how to promote
existing standards to regulators
 Identifying best practice within successful
sectors (automobile, aeronautics, telecoms
railways etc) and determining if they can be
transposed to the CASCO toolbox
 Annual management survey on MSS
 Web conferencing to be used extensively
for WG meetings
 Developing countries and CASCO and
UNIDO/DEVCO/CASCO publications
– Most recent is publication of
“Building Trust”

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CASCO Newsletter

 CASCO has initiated a

newsletter (3 issues/year) to keep
the members and others well
informed

 Recent developments in
conformity assessment

 Progress with the work

program

 Policy issues

 General interest

www.iso.org/sites/eNewsletters/CASCO/archive.html
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Conclusions on Conformity Assessment

 A global framework for conformity assessment will increase

consumer
and regulator confidence by:

 Providing a common interpretation of test results

 Providing a mechanism for acceptance of certificates and

reports

 Achieving consistency and building confidence in products

and services

 Applying to International Standards a principle of neutrality

 Defining good practices for market surveillance.

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 Thank you

 http://www.iso.org/iso/resources/conformity_assessment.htm


 cas@iso.org
 maccurtain@iso.org
 marinkovic@iso.org
 bleeker@iso.org

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