Working Groups




:: European group for the certification of constructional steel

Working Groups ................................................

WG 1	ISO 9000-standard series application	Work completed. Own application document
WG 2	Certification schemes	Enquiry. Work completed. Answers compiled in own document
WG 3	Traceability	Work completed. Own document
WG 4	Sampling Schemes	Work stopped due to ongoing work in ECISS/TC 19
WG 5	Bar Marking	Work stopped due to ongoing work in ECISS/TC 19
WG 6 WG 7	Mutual Agreements based on testing Mutual Agreements based on QS-assessments [ WG 6 and 7 have been joined ]	Model Agreement drawn up Reference documents Reporting structure Joint audits Financial matters Legal matters (arbritation) One established agreement between UK CARES and KONTROLLRÅDET (N) Necessary to have full agreement both between the CBs (Certification Bodies) and between the CBs and the producers in question Still work going on to establish more agreements
WG 8	QA for prestressing steels	Work completed. Own document
WG 9	CPD-Article 16 Application	Work stopped due to existing application documents drawn up in UK and Germany
WG 10	Structual steels	Still working
WG 11	Testing. Repeatability and traceability	Still working
WG 12	Product Certification against EN 10080 Application document	Work has just started