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Face CD - Laboratories and inspection bodies.indd 1 07.11.2008 14:11:04 Conformity assessment An important factor in both business and the regu- latory field is provided by conformity assessment – a range of activities including inspection, testing and certification. It has been estimated that standards and related con- formity assessment activities have an impact on 80 % of world commodity trade – so an understanding of laboratories and inspection bodies is useful for many customers. To assist them, ISO in 2009 published the ISO/IEC Pack : Conformity assessment – Laboratories and inspection bodies. The collection of standards and guides contained in the ISO/IEC Pack have been developed by the ISO Commit- e ISO/CASCO workshop participants included, notably : (from left to right) S. MacCurtain, ISO/CASCO Secretary ; I. Cleare, Moderator for the second session of the workshop ; S. Mauel, Head of Product Security, Merck Serono ; C. Agius, IECEX and IECQ Executive Secretary, IEC ; S. Marinkovic, ISO/CASCO Project Manager ; M. Schmid, Director Quality Management, Rail Division, Voith AG ; O. Peyrat, ISO/CASCO Chair. tee on conformity assessment (ISO/CASCO). In addition to its standards development programme, ISO/CASCO organized a workshop in November 2009 in Geneva on the theme of " The role of International Standards in managing the global supply chain and traceability ". The workshop was simultaneously broadcast via Inter- net – a first for this annual event. 19 Annual Report 2009