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ISO Focus - March 2005

Trade and conformity assessment

ISO Focus, March 2005

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An exciting issue on useful and market-relevant documents not to be missed!

The issue looks at the new International Standards and Guides covering a number of conformity assessment subjects - from peer assessment and product certification to suppliers' declaration of conformity and management systems certification. It features the views of stakeholders on where and how ISO has contributed and is contributing to enhancing and facilitating conformity assessment practices, and what these partners are expecting of ISO in the times to come.

Comment

Mario Wittner, ISO/Chair of the ISO Committee on conformity assessment
Fostering participation and facilitating international trade

Guest Views  

Thomas Facklam, Chair, IAF
Richard Nelson, President, IFIA
Daniel Pierre, Chair, ILAC
Neil Reeve, President, IFAN
Fabio Roversi, President, IQNet
Trevor Smith, Chair ISO/TC 176
Andrew Wallard, Director, BIPM

Main Focus

Trade and conformity assessment

• Giving confidence to the market
• Continuous improvement in globally relevant conformity assessment
• Now we can all understand conformity assessment
• Suppliers' declarations given added weight by new ISO/IEC standard
• Principles of product certification
• Peer assessment – helping to remove international trade barriers
• Management systems certification : a new ISO/IEC standard emerges
• Europe's New Approach – 20 years of good regulatory practice

Developments and initiatives

• Security glazing test methods
• Standardization of inflatable liferafts for small leisure craft
• ISO present at World Economic Forum in Davos
• Identifying and describing digital items

New this month

• ISO prepares to launch development of standard on social responsibility

World Scene

• Highlights of events from around the world

ISO Scene

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