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Sean Mac Curtain

UNECE WP6 meeting

Geneva 2012

The CASCO Structure and toolbox

Accepted everywhere

1 Test

1 Conformity

Assessment

1

Standard

The 1-1-1 dream of Conformity Assessment

119 ISO members are represented in CASCO (71 participating

members and 48 observers).

18 international organizations are liaison members of CASCO: BIPM, CEOC, CAC, EFAC, EOQ, Eurolab, IAF, IFAN, IFIA, IIOC, ILAC, INLAC,

IPC, IQNet, ITU-T, OIML, UILI, UNFCCC and IEC.

CASCO performs both policy and technical work (develops

standards)

Structure is based on a continual improvement and feedback cycle

ISO/CASCO membership and structure

Structure of CASCO

STAR - promotion of CA standards

The Strategic Alliance and Regulatory Group (STAR) is responsible to oversee the CASCO communication strategy by:

• Providing a mechanism for industry sectors and intergovernmental regulators to interact with CASCO

• Providing a forum to discuss conformity assessment concerns of industry sectors and regulators

• Giving CASCO advice on how to enhance and develop relationships with intergovernmental organizations and economic sectors

• Promoting the CASCO toolbox to international agencies (regulators) and industry/economic sectors and other interested groups

• Another major effort is the promotion of the CASCO toolbox to developing economies. CASCO in conjunction with DEVCO.

Conformity assessment Hierarchy

CASCO Standards in Progress

ISO/IEC 17021 Conformity Assessment Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of management systems (revision)

ISO/IEC 17024 -2 (CASCO WG 30) Conformity assessment — General requirements for bodies operating certification of persons Part 2 Terminology (1 st meeting July 2012)

ISO/IEC 17067 (CASCO WG 32), Conformity assessment – Fundamentals of product certification (Product scheme development) (DIS April 2012)

ISO/IEC 17021-3(CASCO JWG 35) Conformity assessment – Competence requirements for certification auditing of quality management systems (DTS August 2012)

ISO 22003 (CASCO JWG 36) Food Safety Management Systems (Audit and certification of FSMS) (WD stage)

ISO/IEC 17023 (CASCO WG 37) Audit duration (WDJuly 2012)

Other published documents in 2012

ISO/IEC 17020 Conformity assessment — Requirements for the operation of various types of bodies performing inspection

ISO/IEC 17021-2 (CASCO JWG 34), Conformity assessment – Competence Requirements for certification Auditing of Environmental Management Systems

(Published August 2012)

ISO/IEC 17024 -1 (CASCO WG 30), Conformity assessment — General requirements for bodies operating certification of persons (Published 2012)

ISO/IEC 17022 Conformity assessment — Requirements and recommendations for content of a third-party audit report on management systems

ISO/IEC 17065 (CASCO WG 29), Conformity assessment — Requirements for certification bodies certifying products, processes and services (Published 2012)

Possible WG’s in 2013

ISO/IEC 17000 Vocabulary and general principles (systematic review in 2013)

ISO/IEC 17007 Guidance for drafting normative documents suitable for use for conformity assessment (systematic review in progress)

ISO/IEC Guide 28 Guidance o 3rd party certifcation systems for products

ISO/IEC Guide 53 Guidance on the use of an organization quality management system in product certification:

• Both Guides to undergo NWIP to be converted into technical specification (TR or TS)

ISO/IEC 17050 P1 and 2 Suppliers Declaration of Conformity (systematic review scheduled for 2013)

ISO/IEC 17011 General requirements for accreditation bodies accrediting conformity assessment bodies (systematic review scheduled for 2013)

Double layer of consensus for

ISO standards

At the level of delegates/experts who participate in technical committees,

sub-committees, working groups, i.e. industry specialists, technologists,

users, consumers, etc.

Then, at the level of countries through their national standards

bodies (NSBs), involving all stakeholders in national mirror

committees

28th CASCO Plenary sessin October 3012 Bogota Colombia

• The ISO/CASCO Road Map, a plan where each document being processed within ISO/CASCO is referenced with targets for progressing the work;

• The CPC task group recommendations to improve the Management System Standards (MSS) complaints mechanism;

• The ISO/CASCO balanced scorecard, based on the ISO Strategic Plan that serves as a means of measuring progress and success of the conformity assessment (CAS) unit;

• To hold the next ISO/CASCO plenary meeting in Beijing.

The plenary

approved:

Topical issues in CASCO

Market Surveillance – Information booklet developed on regulatory Good Practice aimed to assist developing economies

Interpretation Panel – Completion of 8 requests for interpretation – process is functioning well.

Confirmed the CASCO interpretation process and undertook to review in 6 months

CASCO Newsletter developed and 3rd edition released.

Launched ISO Connect for CASCO news

IAF-ISO Action plan on monitoring the effectiveness of Accredited Management System Certification – progress is on schedule.

Also new strategic plan for the IAF-ILAC-ISO JWG

Making CASCO participation more accessible to developing regions a by meeting outside of Geneva and providing Web conferencing extensively for workshops and WG meetings.

Develop a brochure for use by the NMB in promoting the CASCO toolbox to national regulators.

Organize a regional workshop on the use of the CASCO toolbox by regulators

Task force on Management System Standards complaints and interaction with NMB and consumer organizationsen

The front cover of the recently published Guide to good practices in MS. This was published as a direct response to the developing country members of ISO/CASCO

Thank you Confidence has a nickname… iso.org

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