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Standards and Conformity AssessmentStandards and Conformity Assessment

In The Arab Countries: An OverviewIn The Arab Countries: An Overview

Paper presented by Mr.Talaat Al-Dafer

Director GeneralArab Industrial Development and Mining Organization

(AIDMO)Rabat - Morocco

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Quality Assurance

Standardization

Enhance Trade

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Agreed upon Standards(Regional & International) Breaking

The Borders

Customs

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1960Permanent Tech

Standards Committ

Application ofSI system of units

Establishment of NSBs

19581st Conference on

standards

1967Activity of ASMO

WITH TEN MEMBER STATES

1990AIDMO

Standardization&

MetrologyMineral Resources

Industrial Development

Standardization at the

Arab regional level

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AIDMO MEMBER COUNTRIES

JORDAN

UNITED ARAB

EMIRATES

BAHRAIN

TUNISIA

ALGERIA

DJIBOUTI

SAUDI ARABIA

SUDAN

SYRIA

SOMALIA

IRAQ

OMAN

PALESTINE

QATAR

KUWAIT

LEBANON

LIBYA

EGYPT

MOROCCO

MAURITANIA

YEMEN

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Promoting the quality of products and the unification of standards to enhence commercial exchange and cooperation in the related activities through the following :

1. Unification of symbols, terms, definitions, types, testing, analysis and assessment methods, design basis and implementation in Arab States.

2. Issuing Unified Arab Standards for raw materials, goods, products, technical implementation systems in line with the international standards taking into account the Arab circumstances.

3. Development of skills of Cadres from member states in different fields of standards: quality control, and testing methods.

4. Issuing, and adopting of marks and symbols of conformity of goods and products to Arab Standards, and setting up systems related to terms of use and conformity Marks.

5. Assisting Arab States in the Establishment and or development of national standardization bodies to protect the consumer and to improve the quality of products

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The role of HCCS

Assisting AIDMO in the formulation of policies, elaboration of work programs for standards, Laboratories, quality, and the required surveys in this field.

Establishment of Arab Standards' Committees or their elimination, the adoption of their work programmes and the follow-up of their achievements.

Suggesting of training programmes for Arab cadres in the field of standardization and related activities.

Suggesting policies for assisting Arab member states to establish and improve their standardization bodies.

Undertaking studies on unified draft Arab Standards and considering their primary adoption so as to be submitted to the ministerial Council to be finally adopted.

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Technical working Guide for AIDMO Center of Standardization and Metrology

regulating paragraphs :

The center prepare draft annual plan to be submitted to the High Consultative Committee of Standardization (HCCS) for primary adoption.

The HCCS shall undertake the distribution of this plan to the secretariats of AIDMO Technical Committees.

In case a country wishes to prepare a certain standard, this should be done in coordination with the technical secretariat of the committee. Also the final version of this standard should be verified by the technical secretariat of the committee.

The technical secretariat shall prepare and distribute the draft standard to other standards' bodies for comments within three months as of the date of distribution. Also the center shall be given a copy of this correspondence.

Technical secretariat shall study the comments received and prepare new draft, noting that the standard body which does not return any comments after the deadline is considered agreed .

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In case of convincing technical comments, the draft shall be prepared again taking into consideration the new remarks and shall be redistributed to the member states for comments in two months' period.

If 75 % of NSBs agree on the draft project, the technical secretariat shall submit draft project to AIDMO center of standardization together with a report.

the center shall undertake preparing the draft standard in its final version and submitting it to the executive council of AIDMO.

The HCCS shall recommend, by majority of votes, the submission of adopted projects to the Executive council of AIDMO for their adoption. The project then becomes an Arab standard as of the date of its final adoption by the Executive Council.

The center shall undertake the printing of unified Arab standards and their distribution to national standards bodies.

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Number and Name of Committee Technical Secretariat

AIDMO TC 1 Fertilizers and Soil Conditioners Egypt

AIDMO TC 2 Aluminium products Syria

AIDMO TC 3 Processed food products Egypt

AIDMO TC 4 Non-Processed food products Sudan

AIDMO TC 5 Terminology Sudan

AIDMO TC 6 Plastics Egypt

AIDMO TC 7 Metrology Egypt

AIDMO TC 8 Application of Arabic Language in Informatics

Syria

 AIDMO TC 9 Solar Energy and its Application Egypt

AIDMO TC 10 Etectric and Telephone wires and cables

Palestine

AIDMO TC 11 Tobacco and Tobacco products  

AIDMO TC 12 Cement, lime and gypsum Lybia

AIDMO TC 13 Paints and varnishes Syria

AIDMO TC 14 Gypsum and its products Egypt

AIDMO Standards' Technical Committees

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AIDMO TC 15 Steel Saudi Arabia

AIDMO TC 16 Glass Algeria

AIDMO TC 17 Safety Egypt

AIDMO TC 18 Petroleum products and lubricants Syria

AIDMO TC 19 Packaging Syria

AIDMO TC 20 Technical drawing and limits and fits  

AIDMO TC 21 Paper and cardboard Egypt

AIDMO TC 22 Chemistry Yemen

AIDMO TC 23 Textiles Egypt

AIDMO TC 24 Leather Sudan

AIDMO TC 25 Soap and synthetic detergents Syria

AIDMO TC 26 Electrotechnicl safety requirements Egypt

AIDMO TC 27 Electrotechnical symbols and ratings Egypt

AIDMO TC 28 Steam boilers and pressure vessels Egypt

AIDMO TC 29 Electrical accessories Jordan

AIDMO TC 30 Building code Yemen

AIDMO TC 31 Cars, vehicles and their accessories Saudi Arabia

AIDMO TC 32 Environment protection from pollution Yemen

AIDMO TC 33 Roads and Axial Loads

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quality standards liable to change according to the following variables:

potential change in the consumer's demands which cover a whole range of sectors. The demands change according to the standard of living of the consumer.

technological progress changing social and economic circumstances difference in taste and culture of people difference in the designe of products 

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AIDMO and Arab countries noted with satisfaction the necessity of developing a national quality infrastructure according to the new international concepts.

conformity assessment has become an integral part of the world trade convention on technical barriers to trade

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conformity assessment covers the following activities :

preparation, adoption and implementation of standards Preparation, adoption and implementation of technical regulationsMetrologyTestingCertification and conformity assessmentInspectionAccreditaion

These activities verify that the product or service meets stated or implied requirements

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Total number of Unified Arab Standards adopted so far is

This include ISO 9000, and ISO 14000 series and are called AIDMO/ISO standards

1588

AIDMO translate into Arabic language 24 ISO/IEC Guides,

AIDMO is encouraging the development and/or establishment of national conformity assessment Bodies leading to mutual recognition agreements ,

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The celebration of the World Standards Day on the 14th of October every year.

The celebration of the Arab Standards Day on the 25th of March every year

AIDMO is planning to choose the first Ambassador of standardization to the Arab Region

AIDMO share with others:

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Director General

Industrial information

Center

Computer Section

Statistics and Information

Section

Library and Documentation

Section

Specification and Standardization

center

StandardizationSection

SpecificationSection

Quality Section

Printing Unit

Department of Mineral resourses

Mining section

Geology section

Department of consultancy and

Industrial Development

IndustrialConsultation section

Transfer of Technology section

Industrial Project’sPromotion section

Department of StudiesAnd Industrial

Integration

Economic StudiesSection

Small and mediumScale Industries

SectionIndustrial

Integration Section

Human ResourcesSection

Energy andEnvironment Section

Planning and Follow-up office

Department of Administrative and

Financial affairs

Personnel Section

Financial Affair’s Section

General Services section

Legal adviser

Co-ordinating Committee

Director General’s Office

General relations and Information office

Financial controller

Consultant

Regional OfficesRegional Office Cairo

Deputy Director General

AIDMO CHART

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Wishing your conference every possible success in Building Bridges of Peace, Hope and Prosperity between our nations through our dedication for harmonization of standards

Thank you.