Romanian National Working Group

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Romanian National Working Group on ISO 26000
Diana Iorga
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The national standardization body

• Initial legal framework, GO no. 39/1998 was
  finalized with its approval in the Law no.
  355/2002 on national standardization.
• The new ASRO Statute was approved by the General
  Assembly in February 2003.
• The process for ASRO assessment, performed by
  Ministry of Economy and Finance was deployed in
  December 2003 and had a positive result, as the
  Governmental Decision 985/2004 recognize ASRO as
  the national standardization body.

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The national standardization body

• Member in
• ISO International Organization for
  Standardization 1950
• IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
  1920
• ETSI European Telecommunications Standards
  Institute 1991
• Member in
• CEN European Committee for Standardization
  2006
• CENELEC European Committee for
  Electrotechnical Standardization
  2006

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ROMANIAN STANDARDS ASSOCIATION ASRO
FLOWCHART STRUCTURE OF THE ASSOCIATION





GENERAL ASSEMBLY
COMMITTEE OF CONSUMERS (COCON)
BOARD OF DRECTORS



PRESIDENT
COMMITTEE FOR ORIENTATION

COUNCILS OF


AND PROGRAMMS

(COP)
CERTIFICATION


DIRECTOR GENERAL

Committee for Orientation
by fields

(COF)


MARK

COMMITEES
(by fields)

PUBLICATIONS
ECONOMICAL DIVISION
STANDARDISATION






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FUNCTIONAL DEPARTAMENT


CERTIFICATION BODYS

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TECHNICAL COMMITTEE

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

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How we started ?

• Participation
• workshops Vienna/April 2006
• Lisbon/May 2006
• ISO/TMB/WG on SR meetings
• Lisbon/May 2006
• All of those participations were sponsored by
  ISO/DEVCO

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Follow-up of the participation in workshops and
meetings during 2006

• More then 150 letters and e-mails were sent to
  stakeholders between July and August 2006
• 22 responses received
• Outcome
• Establishing an Working Group on ISO 26000
  inside the National Technical Committee CT 332
  Lifelong learning for others in October 2006

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The composition of the NWG

• The NWG is covering 5 of the 6 stakeholder groups
  as follows
• Consumers 2
• Government 5
• Industry 6
• Labour 0
• NGO 1
• Service, support, research and
• others 9

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NWG meetings (1)

• 3 meetings in October November 2006
• 5/10/2006
• Introduction on ISO/TMB/WG SR work
• Romanian translation of draft_presentation_ver10
  (available on ISO website)
• 17/11/2006 and 24/11/2006
• We sent nominations for
• 6 experts
• The working group made comments to WD2 of
  ISO 26000 and sent them to the
  secretariat.

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NWG meetings (2)

• 3 meetings in 2007
• 22/05/2007
• We invited Mr Martin Neureiter (TG6 convenor)
  to attend one of our meetings and the
  participants ask him about the process of making
  ISO 26000, about how the standard will be
  implemented and some other issues.
• 20/08/2007 and 29/08/2007
• The working group made comments to WD3 of
  ISO 26000 and sent them to the
  secretariat.

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NWG meetings (3)

• 2 meetings in March 2008
• 19/03/2008 and 26/03/2008
• The experts sent comments to WD4 of
  ISO 26000 to stakeholder groups representatives.

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ISO sponsorship for participation to ISO/TMB/WG
SR meetings

• An Romanian expert have received support from
  ISO/DEVCO to attend the following meetings
• 3rd meeting of the ISO TMB WG/SR held in Lisbon,
  15-19 May 2006
• 4th meeting of the ISO TMB WG/SR held in Sydney,
  29th January-2nd February 2007
• 5th meeting of the ISO TMB WG/SR held in Vienna,
  5-9 November 2007
• and also to attend at the Developing Country
  Workshops
• Vienna 12-13 April 2006
• Lisbon 13-14 May 2006
• Sydney, 27-28 January 2007
• Vienna, 3-4 November 2007

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ISO Press releases translation

• We translated into Romanian language the ISO
  Press releases as follows
• Ref. 1010/2006-05-24 Drafting progresses of
  future ISO 26000 standard on social
  responsibility. This translation was included in
  the Standardization Magazine 2006 August issue,
  pages 22-23.
• Ref. 1039/2006-11-24 ISO and UN Global Compact
  reinforce cooperation on social responsibility
  standard
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• Ref. 1049/2007-02-13 Future ISO 26000 standard
  on social responsibility reaches positive turning
  point.
• These 2 translations were included in the
  Standardization Magazine February issue (pages
  16-17).
• Ref. 1062/2007 ISO's contributions to social
  responsibility and sustainable development
  highlighted at Global Compact Leaders Summit.
  This translation was included in the
  Standardization Magazine 2006 August issue,
  page 24.

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Other presentations on Workshops

• Bucharest
• Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility for
  Small and Medium Businesses and Advisory
  Institutions in Romania, Wednesday, 19 September
  2007 organized by UNIDO and National Council for
  Small and Medium Businesses in Romania (CNIPMMR)
• Iasi
• National Project Fair on Corporate Social
  Responsibility, 30-31 May 2007, organized by
  InfoGraphic Center, Near You Foundation,
  partners JSI, British Council, UNAIDS, AIESEC,
  ASRO

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More information about Romanian Standards
Association - ASRO you can find at
www.asro.ro
Thank you!