Promoting consistency

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• Promoting consistency
• and efficiency in global
• rule-making
• Presentation by Kevin McKinley
• Deputy Secretary-General
• International Organization for Standardization
• UN/ECE Symposium on Trade Rules, Regulations and
  Standards
• Different levels of rule-making and their impact
• Geneva, 23 October 2007

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Outline of presentation

• The global context for consensus-based standards
• The contribution of ISO voluntary standards to
  international rule-making
• International and regional efficiency
• International Standards and public policies
• Using and referencing ISO Standards

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Increasing demand for consensus-based
International Standards

• Globalization of trade in products and services
• Delocalization of procurement and investment
• Deregulation of public services
• Response to climate changes and energy efficiency
• Public demand for consumer and environmental
  protection and security
• Need for international solidarity to face
  terrorism, epidemics and natural disasters
• Deployment of new technologies and innovation

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World Trade Report 2005
Exploring the links between trade, standards and
the WTO
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The World Standards Cooperation (WSC)
The leading international standards 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
At September 2007
157 national members

• IT tools
• Standards development procedures
• Consensus building
• Dissemination

193 active TCs 3 041 technical bodies 50 000
experts
Central Secretariatin Geneva 150 staff
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Some topical issues in ISO

• Food safety
• Security
• Environment and climate change
• Energy efficiency and renewable sources (energy
  management, bio-fuels)
• Services
• Social Responsibility
• Nanotechnologies
• Conformity assessment

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ISO and the international scene

• WTO observer status and collaboration
• UN and UN agencies CODEX, ILO, IMO, ITC, UPU,
  UN/ECE, UNIDO, WHO, WMO, WTO-OMT and other IGOs
  (e.g., OECD, Global Harmonization Task Force for
  medical devices)
• More than 600 liaisons with international and
  broadly-based regional organizations
• Key implementers and users Accreditors (IAF,
  ILAC), Consumers (CI), Standards users (IFAN),
  multinationals (WEF), etc

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ISO and the regional scene
EASC
PASC
CEN
AIDMO
ACCSQ
ARSO
COPANT
PASC
PASC
2005-09-07
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ISO Europe the Vienna Agreement

• New Approach for eliminating TBT in the European
  Economic Area
• European legislation and importance of European
  Standards
• Single European Market
• Integration of the European Single Market into
  the global market
• Vienna Agreement(signed in 1991)
• Facilitating the equivalence (whenever possible)
  of International and European standards

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Increasing number of CEN Standards corresponding
to ISO Standards
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International Standards and Public PoliciesISO
Open Session held 20 September 2007

• Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Director General, UNOG
• Jonathan Koppell, Yale School of Management, USA
• Supporting public policies for sustainable
  development
• Patricia Francis, Executive Director,
  International Trade Centre (ITC)
• Georg Kell, Executive Director, UN Global
  Compact (UNGC)
• Lord Lindsay, Chairman, United Kingdom
  Accreditation (UKAS)
• Harsha Singh, Deputy Director General, WTO
• Björn Stigson, President, WBCSD
• Masami Tanaka, Japanese Industrial Standards
  Committee (JISC)
• Public safety and security policies
• Marek Belka, Executive Secretary, UNECE
• Manfred Hennecke, German Institute for
  Materials Research
• Larry Kessler, Chairman, Global Harmonization
  Task Force
• Amb. Krister Kumlin, Chairman of ISO/TC 223,
  Societal security
• Richard Lloyd, CEO, Consumers International

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Some highlights of the Open Session

• "Internationally agreed standards help to build
  capacity, open up markets, facilitate trade and
  nurture technological innovation.
• Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Director General, UNOG
• Illustration of how ISO provides practical tools
  to support public policies and the three
  dimensions of sustainable world development
• Governments should pay attention to the emergence
  and growing impact of private standards on trade,
  especially on SMEs in developing countries
• New information document on Use of ISO and IEC
  standards for technical regulations acknowledged
  as a useful tool to assist regulators in making
  the best of the ISO and IEC systems

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Standards and RegulationsEfficient and
coordinated rule-making
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Benefits for regulators!

• ISO Standards
• allow products to be supplied and used across
  different markets
• facilitate regulatory compliance
• enhance market access for small enterprises
• reflect the state of the art
• disseminate new technologies/innovative
  practices

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Benefits for regulators!

• ISO standards
• consistent with expectations under WTO TBT
• can be used as a basis for national technical
  regulations
• are used for conformity assessment - confidence
• avoid duplication / complement the regulation.
• can become national standards

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How is it done?

• Success is achieved by
• mutual representation at each others' meetings
  formal liaison possible
• the acceptance of standards as a key element in
  the regulatory infrastructure
• regular communication
• regulator highlighting interest at earliest
  possible stage

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How is it done?

• Success is achieved by
• Using MOUs between appropriate groups
• Setting up a mechanism for formal requests for a
  standard
• Formal endorsement once it is published
• Synchronized publication of key documents
• Referring only to published ISO documents.

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How is it done?

• Each standard should be assessed by the regulator
  
• If the standard is not satisfactory, it can be
  rejected.
• ISO Committee may revise/improve standards based
  on regulatory input
• Regulators can receive drafts of standards and be
  involved in their development.
• enabling them to influence and avoid having to
  reject.

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Ships and marine technology

• Who?
• International Maritime Organization (IMO)
• ISO/TC 8, Ships and marine technology
• What?
• Long-term working relationship developed
• Over 80 formal links between IMO work and ISO
  standards

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Transport of dangerous goods

• Who is involved?
• United Nations Economic and Social Council's
  Committee of Experts on the Transport of
  Dangerous Goods
• ISO/TC 58, Gas cylinders
• ISO/TC 220, Cryogenic vessels

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Medical devices

• Who is involved?
• Global Harmonization Task Force (GHTF)
• ISO/TC 210, Quality management and corresponding
  general aspects for medical devices

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Road vehicles

• Who is involved?
• UN/ECE Working Party 29, World Forum for
  Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations
• ISO/TC 22, Road vehicles
• What?
• Of the 123 ECE regulations that exist on vehicle
  regulation, 56 of them now make reference to ISO
  standards
• 135 ISO standards are referenced in total

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Food products

• Who?
• CODEX Alimentarius Commission
• ISO/TC 34 Food products
• What?
• More than 100 standards by TC 34 have now been
  endorsed by Codex
• ISO/TC 34 published ISO 22000, Food safety
  management systems
• Based on a management systems approach as well as
  the Codex (HACCP) system
• The HACCP system is widely accepted worldwide but
  has been implemented in different ways

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In closing

• Many inter-governmental bodies using ISO
  standards effectively and efficiently
• Specific benefits for regulators
• Steps that governments can take to start
  successfully using ISO standards to support
  regulations and government initiatives
• Contact ISO for more information

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ISO International Standards for a sustainable
world
Thank for your attention!
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