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Central Organization for Standardization and Quality Control

Introduction

The Central Organization for Standardization and Quality Control was established under Law No. (54) of 1979, as amended, with the aim of finding accredited Iraqi references for measurement standards, calibration methods, and issuing Iraqi standard specifications. for various products, where it contributed to developing and raising the production efficiency and quality level of national products through quality assurance activities, as well as limiting the flow of low-quality goods through examining imported goods and quality control of local goods and products for projects approved in accordance with the Industrial Investment Law, as well as marking jewelry and precious metals and the participation of various parties relevant in the field of consumer protection, support for local producers, and reduction of the phenomenon of industrial fraud, The organization organizes the activities of registering, granting and protecting patents and industrial models, providing technical advice in the field of quality management systems, and licensing qualification offices for these systems, as well as granting the Iraqi quality certificate to them. The organization also qualifies testing laboratories to reach the international level and enhances confidence in the results of testing these laboratories.

Since its establishment in 1979, the organization has been providing its services and technical advice to all official and unofficial parties, including consumers, producers and importers, and protecting them despite the difficult periods it is going through. Since the work of the organization is linked to the economic activity and the security situation in the country, And that any defect in them affects negatively or positively on its activities, In addition, some of its activities are linked to other institutions, where the role of the organization comes as a second link, and any defect in these institutions affects its work, as is the case in examining imported materials that are directly related to customs.

In spite of all the obstacles that faced the Central Organization for Standardization and Quality Control, it was and still is the party that leads the awareness process against industrial and commercial fraud and raises the slogan of quality in products and services through its activities that it provides to the community.

Duties and responsibilities of the departments, sections, and the Presidency of the organization

The device performs its tasks and activities through:

First: – Departments of the Presidency of the organization

Second: – Department of Standardization

Third: – Quality Control Department

Fourth: – Department of Technical and management Services

Firstly: Presidency departments

The following departments are linked to the presidency of the organization

1- Legal Department

2- Audit Department

3- Department of Informatics and International Cooperation

4- Directorate of Patents and Industrial Designs

5- Quality Management Division

It undertakes the following tasks

1- Initiating, following up and resolving lawsuits against the owners of industrial projects when they violate the specifications and against goldsmiths for violating the law of jewelry marking.

2- Attend pleadings in various courts on issues related to the work of the organization.

3- Organizing contracts to which the Agency is a party and following up on their implementation.

4- Providing advice on the laws of the organization and related laws.

5- Carrying out the affairs of preserving references, scientific sources, and approved technical documents.

6- Supervising external communications and everything related to the organization’s membership in international and regional organizations related to the organization’s work, and following up on the organization’s representation in relevant international conferences.

7- Checking what is related to matters of exchange, receipt, settlements, and what is received from the Financial Services Department and other departments.

8- Supervising the work of the warehouses and following up the warehouse assets.

9- Auditing financial reports (monthly, quarterly, annual) as well as the financial matters of inspection and examination companies.

10- Forming annual and continuous inventory committees and following up their work and the work of direct implementation committees.

11- The Directorate of Patents and Industrial Models in the Central Organization for Standardization and Quality Control is the only one at the level of Iraq concerned with the protection of intellectual property in terms of industrial property (patents and industrial models) in a way that protects inventions, innovations and industrial models submitted for protection and the issuance of patent certificates and industrial designs separately. Whether and play an important role in guaranteeing the right of the inventor within a legal and administrative framework in accordance with the Iraqi Patents and Industrial Designs Law No. (65) for the year 1970, as amended, which determined the work of the department to serve a wide segment of Iraq’s scientists and innovators from north to south and protect and preserve their scientific rights and innovations with legal protection of up to twenty The Directorate’s work is linked to the mechanisms and legislation of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), since the agency is a member of the organization and the Paris Convention on Industrial Property since 1976.

secondly: standardization department

The Standardization Department undertakes the affairs of specifications, metrology, and marking of gold and silver jewellery. The Department carries out its duties through its following technical departments:

1- Specifications section

2- Metrology Section

3- Jewelry section

The following are the tasks of these departments and agencies:

1- Preparing the Iraqi standard specifications for products and services, which are mandatory for application according to the organization Law No. 54 of 1979, in addition to laboratory specifications for local products for which an Iraqi standard is not available, and they are prepared, reviewed and modified through specialized technical committees consisting of representatives from the relevant authorities (consumers – producers – distributors – in addition to representatives from the public sector and universities)

2- Working on the basis of the governance guide approved by the International Organization for Standardization (Good standardization practice) (ISO) in addition to other documented evidence and instructions necessary to organize the work, including: (Procedure for preparing a specification – Procedure for answering inquiries and requests – Procedure for adoption – Procedure for canceling an Iraqi standard – Procedure for amending the Iraqi standard – Procedure for reviewing an Iraqi standard and other documents – Governance guide – Technical committees guide)

3- The Metrology Department, and based on the provisions of the Apparatus Law No. 54 of 1979, as amended, is the central authority in Iraq responsible for preparing the Iraqi measurement references and references, calibrating the references and measurement devices used in scientific, service and production facilities, and marking the weighing, measuring and measuring devices used for commercial purposes, based on the law of marking scales Commercial standards and measures No. 42 of 1978 amended.

4- The Jewelry Department is based on the provisions of the Law No. 54 of 1979 as amended and the Law of Jewelry Marking No. 83 of 1976 as amended. With the tasks of examining and marking gold and silver jewelry, in addition to granting, renewing and canceling a license to practice the profession of goldsmithing, inspecting goldsmiths’ shops, and expressing opinion and advice in the field of work of the department