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
Collection of 18 083
1 038 standards
ISO Standards
produced in 2009
195 active TCs
3 238 technical
bodies
50 000 experts
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• IT tools
• Standards
development
procedures
• Consensus
building
• Dissemination
Central
Secretariat
in 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
1
Standard Accepted
everywhere
1
Test
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:
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 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…
Requirements for accreditation bodies –ISO/IEC 17011 (2004)
Requirements for Certification bodies
Requirements
Requirements
for
for
testing &
Inspection
calibration
bodies
ISO/IEC
ISO/IEC
17025
17020
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Persons
Part 2 in
preparations
laboratories
(2005)
Management
Systems
(1998)
Products
Conformity
assessments
of suppliers
Revision
Agreed
ISO/IEC
17050-1
ISO/IEC
17050-2
(2004)
ISO/IEC
17021
ISO/IEC
17024
ISO/IEC
Guide 65
(2006)
(2003)
(2006)
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Mutual Recognition ISO/IEC 17040 (2005)
Terms and definitions – ISO/IEC 17000 (2001)
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
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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
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 cas@iso.org
 maccurtain@iso.org
 marinkovic@iso.org
 bleeker@iso.org
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