ISO Structure

International Organization for

Standardization
International Standards for Business, Government and Society











By: Abdul Qadeer
AE Mechanical
QAD



ISO Structure
CONTENTS
International Standards for Business, Government and Society
Preamble
International Standard
ISO Structure
General Assembly
Council
ISO Central secretariat
Member Bodies
Correspondent Members
Subscriber Members
Technical Management Board
Technical Committees
Strategic & Technical Advisory groups and REMCO
Policy development committees
Council Standing Committees





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CONTENTS (Cont..)
International Standards for Business, Government and Society
Ad hoc advisory groups
Standards Development
How ISO decides to develop a standard
Who develops ISO standards
How ISO standards are developed
Voting
Appeals
Development Stages of International Standards
Certification and Registration
Accreditation
Registration Authority
Questions





ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is the world's
largest developer and publisher of International Standards
ISO is a network of the national standards institutes of 162 countries,
one member per country, with a Central Secretariat in Geneva,
Switzerland, that coordinates the system
International Organizations, governmental and non governmental , in
liaison with ISO also take part in the work
Therefore, ISO enables a consensus to be reached on solutions that
meet both the requirements of business and the broader needs of
society
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Preamble
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The required characteristic of an International Standard is that it can be
used/implemented as broadly as possible by affected industries and
other stakeholders in markets around the world.

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International Standard
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Principal Officers
Delegates of:
Member Bodies
Correspondent Members
Subscriber Members



General Assembly

Council
Central Secretariat

Policy development
Committees
CASOCO
COPOLCO
DEVCO
Council Standing
Committees
Finance
Strategy
Ad hoc advisory
Group
Technical Management
Board
Strategic & Technical
Advisory groups and
REMCO
Technical
Committees
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The General Assembly is constituted by a meeting of the Officers and
delegates nominated by the member bodies
Correspondent members and subscriber members may attend as
observers
General Assembly meets once a year
The President is Chairman of the General Assembly
Its Agenda includes, Inter alia :
Actions relating to the ISO annual report
An ISO multi-year strategic plan with financial implications
Treasurer's annual financial status report on the Central Secretariat
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General Assembly



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The operations of ISO are governed by the Council
Council is consisting of the Officers and twenty elected member bodies
The Council is chaired by the President if he chooses to do so, or
otherwise by the Vice-President
In 2011, some of the member bodies elected to the Council are the
following:
SASO - Saudi Arabia (2012)
AFNOR - France (2012)
JISC - Japan (2011)
ANSI - USA (2012)
BSI - United Kingdom (2011)

Council

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Council appoints the fourteen members of the Technical Management
Board
Appoints the Chairpersons of the policy development committees
Appoints the Treasurer
Decides on the annual budget of the Central Secretariat
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Council (Cont)




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Member bodies
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A member body of ISO is the national body "most representative of
standardization in its country
Only one such body for each country is accepted for membership of ISO
Member bodies are entitled to participate and exercise full voting rights
on any technical committee and policy committees of ISO



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Correspondent members
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A correspondent member is usually an organization in a country which
does not yet have a fully-developed national standards activity
Correspondent members do not take an active part in the technical and
policy development work
They are entitled to be kept fully informed about the work of interest to
them



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Subscriber members

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Subscriber membership has been established for countries with very
small economies
Subscriber members pay reduced membership fees
Reduced membership `nevertheless allow them to maintain contact
with international standardization



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ISO Members

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Country Acronym Membership TC
Participation
PDC
Participation
Bangladesh BSTI Member body 20 02
China SAC Member body 706 03
Pakistan PSQCA Member body 147 3
United Kingdom BSI Member body 720 3
France AFNOR Member body 722 3
Afghanistan ANSA Correspondent Member 0 1
Tajikistan TJKSTN Correspondent Member 11 1
HONG KONG ITCHKSAR Correspondent Member 237 2
Cambodia ISC Subscriber Member 0 0
Burundi BBN Subscriber Member 0 0



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ISO Central secretariat

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The ISO Central Secretariat is located in Geneva, Switzerland
Secretariat is the body providing the administrative support to the work of
the committee
It coordinates the worldwide activities of more than 3200 technical
groups that develop the standards in collaboration with the ISO members
It also act as Secretariat to:
General Assembly
Council
Policy development committees (CASCO, COPOLCO and DEVCO)
Technical Management Board (TMB)
Committee on reference materials (REMCO)




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Technical Management Board
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To report & to advise Council on all matters concerning the organization,
coordination, strategic planning, and the technical work of ISO
To examine proposals for new fields of ISO technical activity, and to
decide on all matters concerning the establishment and dissolution of
technical committees
To appoint registration authorities and maintenance agencies for the
implementation of International Standards
To establish (and dissolve) Technical Advisory Groups (TAG) in order to
obtain expert advice, and to appoint their members and chairmen
To establish (and dissolve) committees on general standardization
principles and to appoint their chairmen



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Strategic & Technical Advisory groups
and REMCO
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Strategic advisory groups are established by the Technical
Management Board
To provide strategic oversight and advice in particular fields, and
also to explore standardization opportunities in new areas
To advise the Board on matters of basic, sectoral and cross-
sectoral coordination, coherent planning and the needs for new
work
REMCO is a specialized committee developing ISO Guides
concerning reference materials, in particular on associated
terminology
It provides guidance to ISO committees on making reference to
such generic issues in ISO's technical publications





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Technical Committees

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ISO Technical committees follow the development processes and
procedures for the development and drafting of International standard
Technical committees comprising experts from the industrial, technical
and business sectors
A project committee works on a topic that do not fall within the scope of
existing technical committee & works in the same way as technical
committee
Certain technical committees have no further work item under study, they
regularly review the ISO International Standards for which they are
responsible



Policy Development Committees
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Advisory committees called policy development committees are
established by General Assembly
They are open to all member bodies and correspondent members
Their management reporting line is to the Council
Following PDC are established
CASCO
Committee on conformity assessment
COPOLCO
Committee on consumer policy
DEVCO
Committee on developing country matters




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Council standing committees (Finance)

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To act in an advisory capacity to the Treasurer in relation to his
responsibilities
To be kept informed on the financial aspects of ISO/CS management
To advise the Secretary-General and Council on questions related to
assessing the value of the services provided by the ISO/CS to
All of the ISO members
The TCs and SCs, and to the governance bodies
Policy development committees of ISO
To provide advice to Council on other specific financial
questions when requested to do so
To report to Council as appropriate




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Council standing committees (Strategy)
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To advise Council on appropriate policy and strategic matters,
and to raise any related issues
To prepare annual strategy implementation plans for approval by
Council
To revise the ISO Strategic Plan every five years for endorsement
by Council and subsequent approval by the General Assembly
To report to Council at least once a year




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Ad hoc advisory groups
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Ad hoc advisory groups may be established by the President, with the
consent of Council
The purpose of the groups is advancing the goals and strategic objectives
of the Organization
Ad hoc advisory groups consists of external executive leaders from
organizations having a substantial interest in international standardization
Members of such groups shall be invited by the President to participate
as Individuals rather than as representatives of member bodies
Recommendations of such groups shall be made to the Council for any
subsequent action




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Standards Development
How ISO decides to develop a standard
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In response to demand & requirement of Sectors & Stakeholders
An industry sector or other stakeholder communicates for a standard to
one of ISO's national members
Proposal forwarded to Technical Committee
Verification of Global Relevance by Technical Committee
Standardization needs forwarded by PDC for DEVCO & COPOLCO
CASCO develop standards itself



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ISO standards are developed by technical committees,
(subcommittees or project committees)
Experts from government agencies, testing laboratories, consumer
associations, non-governmental organizations and academic circles
Proposals to establish new technical committees are submitted to
all ISO national member bodies, who may opt to be participating (P),
observer (O) or non-members of the committee
The secretariat is allocated by the Technical Management Board
usually to the ISO member body which made the proposal
The secretariat is responsible for nominating an individual to act as
chair of the technical committee


Who develops ISO standards



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Who develops ISO standards (Cont)
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Experts participate as national delegations, chosen by the ISO national
member body for the country concerned
The national member body is expected to take account of the views of
all parties interested in the standard under development
International and regional organizations from both business may apply
for liaison status to participate in developing a standard
They may comment on successive drafts, propose new work items or
even propose documents for fast tracking



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The national delegations of experts of a committee meet to until they
reach consensus on a draft agreement
The organizations in liaison also participate in this work
A document as a Draft International Standard (DIS) is prepared,
presented to all ISO's member bodies for voting and comment
If voting is in favour, the document is circulated to the ISO
members as a Final Draft International Standard (FDIS)
An average of seven ISO technical meetings world wide every
working day held on standards development work
The public can purchase International Standards through the ISO web
store or through ISO's national members




How ISO Standards are developed



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Voting
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Two third majority participating in development process needs to
approve the document to be accepted as an International Standards
Must not be disapproved by more than a quarter of all ISO members
who vote on it





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Appeals
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ISO national member bodies have the right of appeal on the
decision of the followings:
To a parent technical committee on the decision of subcommittee
To the Technical Management Board on a decision of technical
committee
To the ISO Council on a decision of the Technical Management
Board
Appeals may relate to procedural, technical or administrative
matters




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Development Stages of International
Standards
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International Standards are developed by ISO technical
committees (TC) and subcommittees (SC) by a six-step process
Stage 1: Proposal stage
Stage 2: Preparatory stage
Stage 3: Committee stage
Stage 4: Enquiry stage
Stage 5: Approval stage
Stage 6: Publication stage




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Certification and Registration

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Certification refers to the issuing of written assurance (the certificate) by
an independent external body that it has audited a management system
and verified that it conforms to the requirements specified in the
standard
Registration means that the auditing body then records the certification
in its client register. So, the organizations management system has
been both certified and registered
Certification is known in some countries as registration
ISO does not carry out certification and does not issue or approve
certificates








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Accreditation
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Accreditation means the formal approval by a specialized body - an
accreditation body - that a certification body is competent to carry out
certification in specified business sectors
Accreditation is like certification of the certification body
Certificates issued by accredited certification bodies - and known as
accredited certificates - may be perceived on the market as having
increased credibility
ISO does not carry out or approve accreditations




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ISO designate as Maintenance Agency or Registration Authority to a
competent body which has the requisite infrastructure for ensuring the
effective use of these international agreements.
For example:
ISO 4100:1980
Road vehicles -- World parts manufacturer identifier (WPMI) code
Registration Authority
c/o Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc.
400, Commonwealth Drive
Warrendale, PA 15096-0001 USA
Web: [Link]



Registration Authority



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Questions
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