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The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is
presently providing assistance to the Institute of Standards of
Cambodia (ISC) to introduce a new product certification scheme conforming to the
requirements of the ISO/IEC Guide 65. This new ‘Product Certification’ scheme
was launched in October 2004 and the ISC is presently engaged in promoting this
new scheme among the industries.
The ISC ‘Product Certification’ scheme is based on the ISO/IEC
Guide 28 which provides rules for a third party certification system of
determining conformity with product standards through testing and assessment of
the factory quality management system.
ISC offers 2 types of licensing as follows:
License for products related to health and safety conforming with
mandatory standards.
Licence for products conforming with voluntary standards.
For obtaining the ISC Certification mark an application has to be
filed in the ISC prescribed application form for a product covered within the
purview of a given Cambodian standard. The following additional documents are
required to be submitted with the application form:
- Location map of the factory and factory layout
- Documentation approving the premises for
manufacture
- List of manufacturing equipment and testing
facilities available
- Scheme of testing and inspection in use, or any
proposed to be used, together with an undertaking to follow the scheme approved
by ISC after grant of licence
- A flowchart indicating the sequence of production.
If application is found complete in all respects it is recorded
and assigned a registration number and preliminary inspections are carried out
during which the Scheme of Inspection and Testing (STI) are discussed. The STI
specifies controls over the production process, markings to be applied, levels
of control to be applied, frequency of sampling, testing etc.
A license is granted if the results of the preliminary inspection
and the independent testing are satisfactory. The initial validity of the
license is 3 years that can be extended for further periods of 3 years at a
time, subject to satisfactory operation of the license.
When the license is granted products can be marked with the ISC
mark provided that the STI is fully implemented, products conform to the
Cambodian standard and a record is maintained of tests carried out.
Post certification controls are exercised through periodical
surveillance inspections and testing of factory and market samples. The licence
can for a particular product can be suspended or cancelled if consistent
deficiencies are observed in conforming to the Cambodian standard.
Benefits
of ISC Mark
To the manufacturer of
product:
- Increased
market share due to ready acceptance of certified products by consumers
- Improvement
of product quality through continuous testing
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Enhancement of manufacturing techniques through good quality management system
and good manufacturing practices
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Recognition by the Government
To Consumers:
- Third
party guarantee by the ISC on quality and safety of products
- Assurance
of conformity of product quality to Cambodian standards.
  
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Certification Mark means assured consumers, accessible market
The
presence of this mark on any product indicates that the product is in conformity
with a Cambodian standard and that its quality and reliability are assured. This is where ISC can help you
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