CASCO toolbox

Within ISO, CASCO is responsible for developing both International Standards and Guides produced as joint ISO/IEC publications covering the various aspects of conformity assessment activities and the organizations that carry them out. CASCO publications are available from the ISO member body in your country or from the ISO Store.

Standards and guides

CASCO has produced International Standards and Guides pertaining to conformity assessment practices, and the organizations and accreditation bodies that use them.

List of CASCO standards and guides covering the following conformity assessment topics:

• Vocabulary and general principles of conformity assessment
• The development of technical specifications suitable for use in conformity assessment
• Code of good practice for conformity assessment
• Operation of testing and calibration laboratories and activities
• Proficiency testing by interlaboratory comparisons
• Inspection bodies and activities
• Supplier's declaration of conformity (SDoC)
• Product certification bodies and activities
• Management system audit and certification bodies and activities
• Personnel certification bodies and activities
• Marks of conformity
• Accreditation
• Peer assessment
• Mutual recognition of conformity assessment results.

Other documents

This is a listing of other conformity assessment documents which contain valuable information and which can be accessed directly.

• Building trust – The Conformity Assessment Toolbox (PDF, 7.7 MB - Printed edition to follow by end 2009)
  A comprehensive, user-friendly handbook covering all aspects of conformity assessment and its role in international trade, and will be useful for business managers, regulators and consumer representatives.  It is the latest in a series of joint publications issued by ISO and UNIDO.
• ISO Focus, March 2008, Conformity assessment
• How ISO/IEC Guides add value to international standards (PDF, 515 KB)
• ISO and conformity assessment, 2005, 6 pages (PDF, 220 MB)
• Metrology, standardization and conformity assessment - Building an infrastructure for sustainable development, 2006, 4 pages (PDF, 95 kB)
• ISO Focus, March 2005: Trade and conformity assessment
• Certification and related activities: Assessment and verification of conformity to standards and technical specifications, 1992, 172 pages