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Guide To ISO 9001 Consulting Services

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By Lucia Weeks


General Assembly - a collection of officials and delegates nominated by the member bodies. Each member shall be entitled to no more than three delegates, but may be accompanied by observers. Correspondent members and members-subscribers participate as observers. The General Assembly of 2013 was held in St. Petersburg (ISO 9001 consulting services).

The operation of ISOS is the subject of criticism, particularly following strong pressure tactics or use of suspicions of corruption in some countries, such as Norway and Croatia by Microsoft in standardization process OpenXML office document format to bring voters to change their position in favor of interests of Microsoft6. It also criticized the ISOS to charge for access to a number of specifications, which is a problem for organizations or projects of limited means who would comply.

The ISOs Central Secretariat is located in Geneva, Switzerland. He assured members of ISOs technical and administrative support, coordinates the decentralized program standards development and proceeds to publication. ISOS is the largest standards organization in world. This is a non-governmental organization representing a network of national institutes of 165 countries, according to principle of one member per country.

The Soviet Union was one of founders of organization, a permanent member of governing bodies, the representative of State Standard of twice elected president of organization. Russia became a member as a successor to USSR. September 23, 2005 Russia joined the Council. When creating the organization and the choice of its name taken into account the need for the acronym names sound the same in all languages. To do this, it was decided to use the Greek word - equal, which is why in all the languages of world International Organization for Standardization is the short name "ISOS".

In 1921, the first American Standard Safety (American Standard Safety Code), to protect the eyes and heads of industrial workers is approved. In 1926, the AESC is a facilitator of movement orchestrated by English Charles Le Maistre (Secretary General of CIS) which leads to creation of International Standards Association (ISA). It is a federation of non-governmental standards organizations of fifteen countries, mostly European, with the participation of AESC for the United States and Japan. The French Association for Standardization (AFNOR), founded in 1926, plays a very active role. The ISA and shall, on French proposal, the first international standard on normal numbers.

Hull is also concerned with the creation of common requirements for auditors for accreditation of testing laboratories and Performance Evaluation of accreditation bodies; mutual recognition of certificates of conformity of products and systems. DEVCO (DEVCO - Committee on developing country matters) examines requests from developing countries in field of standardization and develop recommendations to promote these countries in this field.

At present, the ISOS includes 165 countries their national standardization organizations. Russia is the Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology as a committee. In total, more than 100 ISOS member bodies. In addition of member's membership in ISOS may have the status of corresponding members, which are the standards organizations in developing countries.

In these areas DEVCO cooperates with the UN. One of results of joint efforts was the creation and functioning of international centers of learning. COPOLCO - Committee on consumer policy) is studying the interests of consumers and opportunities to promote this through standardization; summarizes the experience of consumer participation in creation of standards and training programs for customers in field of standardization and bringing tom the necessary information on international standards. This is facilitated by periodical List of international and national standards, as well as useful guides for consumers, "Comparative tests of consumer goods", "Information about products to consumers", "Development of standard methods for measuring the performance of consumer goods" and others.




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