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Objectives and structure of CASCO

ISO/CASCO is ISO's policy development committee on conformity assessment, reporting to the ISO Council. CASCO, as it is commonly referred to, was established in 1970 to study means of conformity assessment, prepare documents concerning the practice and operation of conformity assessment, and to promote their use.

CASCO's terms of reference and objectives are to:

• Study means of assessing the conformity of products, processes, services and management systems to appropriate standards or other technical specifications
• Prepare standards and guides relating to the practice of testing, inspection and certification of products, processes and services, and to the assessment of management systems, testing laboratories, inspection, certification and accreditation bodies, and their operation and acceptance
• Promote mutual recognition and acceptance of national and regional conformity assessment systems, and the appropriate use of International Standards for testing, inspection, certification, assessment and related purposes.

CASCO membership is open to all ISO member bodies as participating (P) or observer (O) members, with both developing and industrialized countries well represented.

CASCO also assists in fulfilling objective 6 of the ISO Strategic Plan 2005-2010: Being the recognized provider of International Standards and guides relating to conformity assessment.

CASCO has a structure that reflects it's various roles of policy development, writing of

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ISO 26000

Keynote Speakers

Aron Belinky

Aron is a consultant for Social Responsibility and Sustainability, with academic background in Public Administration (at FGV-Fundacao Getulio Vargas) and Geography (at USP-Sao Paulo University). He is the Executive Secretary of “EcoPress”– the first Brazilian environmental news agency and of “GAO” (the Brazilian NGOs group at ISO 26000 - Social Responsibility. Also in ISO 26000 process, he is member of the Brazilian delegation and of the drafting task force at the international working group which is building that standard. In the academic field, he is a researcher at FGV, in the Public Administration program, Governments and Civil Society line.

As an expert, he performed in the last three years more than one hundred presentations in companies and universities, about the themes of social responsibility, sustainability and conscious consumption. In 2006, 2007 and 2008, at the Center of Sustainability Studies of Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV), he was one of the coordinators of the ISE/BOVESPA (Sao Paulo stock exchange corporate social responsibility index). He also acts as consultant for corporations in planning and implementing projects of community engagement and structuring private social investment programs.

Since september 2003, as a consultant for Akatu Institute for the Conscious Consumption, he have been responsible for many projects, such as the general coordination of the publications “Conscious Consumption of Money and Credit”*. Other projects he coordinated at the same organization are the Akatu Scale of Corporate Social Responsibility; the Akatu Indicators of Conscious Consumption and the series of eight surveys and studies in which those instruments are based. (all publications available at www.akatu.org.br)

He is involved with social and environmental causes since 1976, and during this period founded EcoPres and took part in the constitution of many other organizations and movements. He represented the Brazilian air conditioning industry in the international working group responsible for the implementation of Montreal Protocol in Brazil, and took part in the Rio’92 Earth Summit presenting the Brazilian initiative for CFC recycling. From 1986 to 1992, Aron worked mainly in his own family businesses.

* The series “Conscious Consumption of Money and Credit” is a group

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