The ISO/CASCO Toolbox

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20th session of the UNECE WP 6
Modern Conformity Assessment Practices
Geneva
1-2 November 2010

Sean Mac Curtain

CASCO Secretary

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

Collection of 18 083 1 038 standards

ISO Standards produced in 2009
• IT tools
• Standards
development
procedures
195 active TCs • Consensus Central
3 238 technical building Secretariat
bodies • Dissemination in Geneva
50 000 experts 153 FTE staff

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The 1-1-1 dream of Conformity Assessment

1 1
Standard Accepted Test
everywhere

1
Conformity
Assessment
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 ISO/CASCO structure

 111 ISO members are

represented in CASCO
(69 participating members
and 42 observers).

 18 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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 CASCO Chairman’s Policy Group
 Gives recognition to the policy
role of CASCO and oversees
the internal coordination of the
CASCO subgroups
 Studies conformity assessment
issues
 Sets priorities for current and
future CASCO work items
 Creates possible
recommendations for
endorsement by CASCO on
conformity assessment
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Strategic and regulatory Alliance Group STAR

Provides mechanism for industry sectors and

regulators to interact with CASCO
Alerts CASCO of sector and regulator activity
in conformity assessment
Forum to discuss conformity assessment
concerns of industry sectors and regulators
Promotes the CASCO toolbox to international
agencies (regulators) and sectors
Responsible for issues related to workshops ,
market surveillance, monitoring the credibility
of certification of MSS

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Technical Interface group TIG

Focused on the technical

relationship between CASCO and
ISO/TC’s to ensure:
a. A harmonized approach by all
TC’s to conformity assessment
b. CASCO conformity assessment
policies are understood and
adhered to where relevant
c. The provision of advice
internally in ISO on conformity
assessment
d. The provision of advice to TC’s
on the design and development
of sector specific schemes
where justified
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 CASCO Interpretation Process
Provides a uniform consistent approach to
interpretation and maintenance of existing
standards and guides
Interpretations have been completed on
ISO/IEC Guide 65, ISO/IEC 17011 and
17021.
A total of 10 interpretations done to date

ISO/IEC 17021- clause 6 Impartiality –

completed
ISO/IEC Guide 65- clause 15 Complaints
to suppliers – completed
ISO/IEC 17011- a number of clauses
ISO/IEC 17021- clause 8.3 uncompleted
Responses are available on ISO website
http://www.iso.org/resources/conformity
_assessment/casco-interreptations.htm
Interpretations are NOT requirements
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 Topical issues related
to conformity assessment
1. Market Surveillance – Information booklet to be
developed on Regulatory Good Practice aimed
to assist developing economies.
2. Interpretation Panel – Completion of 8 requests
for interpretation – process is functioning well
3. IAF-ISO Action plan - on monitoring the
effectiveness of Accredited Management
System Certification – progress is on schedule.
4. Web conferencing - being used relatively
extensively for workshops and WG meetings.
Facilitates participation from developing
economies.
5. Identifying best practice within successful
sectors (automobile, aeronautics, telecoms
railways etc) and determining if they can be
transposed to the CASCO toolbox.
6. Annual management survey on MSS
7. Developing countries and CASCO and
UNIDO/DEVCO/CASCO publications.
8. Review of CPC composition to accommodate
A Liaisons

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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

 Supplier’s declaration of conformity,

accreditation, peer assessment, and mutual
recognition arrangements
 PAS documents (total of 5)
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CASCO common elements and structure
 The CASCO PAS documents represent a group of common elements
for application in all CASCO standards.

 All PAS documents are intended to apply to all CASCO standards on

conformity assessment and are currently being incorporated.

 In addition to the common elements (PAS documents) ISO/CASCO

has adopted a common structure.

 The common structure together with the common elements are

intended to give consistency to conformity assessments standards.

 Each WG developing or revising a CASCO Standard will incorporate

the Obligatory parts of the PAS documents into the standard

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 The “CASCO Toolbox” relationships…

Terms and definitions – ISO/IEC 17000 (2001)

Requirements for accreditation bodies –ISO/IEC 17011 (2004)

Mutual Recognition ISO/IEC 17040 (2005)

Requirements for Certification bodies
Requirements Requirements Conformity
for for
assessments
Management Persons Products
of suppliers
testing & Inspection
Systems
calibration bodies
Revision ISO/IEC
laboratories Part 2 in Agreed
preparations 17050-1

ISO/IEC
ISO/IEC ISO/IEC ISO/IEC ISO/IEC 17050-2
ISO/IEC
17021 17024 Guide 65
17025 17020 (2004)
(2006) (2003) (2006)
(2005) (1998)

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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 (FDIS – Dec. 2010)
 ISO/IEC 17065 (CASCO WG 29), Conformity assessment —
Requirements for certification bodies certifying products,
processes and services (CD 2 - 2010)
 ISO/IEC 17024 (CASCO WG 30), Conformity assessment —
General requirements for bodies operating certification of
persons (CD)
 ISO/IEC 17020 (CASCO WG 31), Conformity assessment —
General criteria for the operation of various types of bodies
performing inspection (DIS)
 ISO/IEC 17067 (CASCO WG 32), Conformity assessment –
Fundamentals of product certification (Product scheme
development) (WD)
 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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Conformity Assessment Standards
- Standards generation
 ISO Standard
 A normative document, developed according to consensus procedures,
which has been approved by the ISO membership
and P-members of the responsible committee in accordance with
Part 1 of the ISO/IEC Directives as a draft International Standard
and/or as a final draft International Standard and which has been
published by the ISO Central Secretariat
 ISO/PAS Publicly available specification
 A normative document representing the consensus within a
working group.
 ISO/TS Technical specification
 A normative document representing the technical consensus within
an
ISO committee
 ISO/TR Technical report
 An informative document containing information of a different kind
from
that normally published in a normative document.
 International Workshop Agreement (IWA)
 An IWA is an ISO document produced through workshop meeting(s)
and not through the technical committee process.
 ISO Guide
 Guides provide guidance to technical committees for the preparation
of standards, often on broad fields or topics
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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 Thank you

 http://www.iso.org/iso/resources/conformity_assessment.htm


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 maccurtain@iso.org
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