The ISO/CASCO Toolbox

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The ISO/CASCO Toolbox

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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 98 of world GDP 97 of
world population
As at 20 April 2010

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

195 active TCs 3 238 technical bodies 50 000
experts
Central Secretariatin Geneva 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

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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
• Suppliers 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)
Conformity assessments of suppliers ISO/IEC
17050-1 ISO/IEC 17050-2 (2004)
Requirements for Certification bodies
Requirements for testing calibration
laboratories ISO/IEC 17025 (2005)
Requirements for Inspection bodies ISO/IEC
17020 (1998)

• Management
• Systems
• Part 2 in preparations
• ISO/IEC 17021
• (2006)

• Products
• Revision Agreed
• ISO/IEC Guide 65
• (2006)

• Persons
• ISO/IEC 17024
• (2003)

Mutual Recognition ISO/IEC 17040 (2005)
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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 CBs 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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