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		National Quality Programme

National Quality Programme

Within the framework of restructuring the Egyptian conformity assessment as a decentralized system aligning with global norms and international agreements, a task force was formed including representatives from both the private and governmental conformity assessment organizations. More
than fifty Egyptian experts and a number of foreign experts participated in this task force in order to develop the National Quality Plan launched by the Minister of Trade and Industry in November 2003 including the following objectives:

Standards
Accreditation Scheme
Certification Scheme

The overall objective of the National Quality Programme (NQP) is to implement the National Quality Plan aiming at strengthening and upgrading the national quality infrastructure to reach international recognition and to sustain the operation of conformity assessment bodies.

Accreditation Scheme
In light of the Egyptian Exports Doubling Strategy, the National Quality Programme aims at accrediting the public and private laboratories.
Accreditation is considered to be the key of conformity assessment system, all accreditation authorities were merged under the umbrella of the Egyptian Accreditation Council (EGAC).
EGAC is the sole accreditation body that is financially and decision making independent, and representing the point of view of all the interested parties and stakeholders.
From this perspective, the National Quality Programme supports (EGAC) to be a full fledged member in International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and in International Laboratories Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC), in addition to create a database including a pool of assessors in various accreditation fields
(testing / calibration laboratories, inspection bodies and certification bodies) in accordance with the requirements of the ISO standards (17025, 17020, and 17021). As well as a database including all accredited testing and calibration labs in Egypt.

Standards Harmonisation of standards is defined as reviewing the national standards against the international ones, in order to assess technical equivalence, modernize of standards, and ensure that differences are not constituting technical barriers to trade, then this will be followed by voting and notification where applicable. National Quality Programme has supported the administrative and technical levels of the Egyptian Organisation for Standards and Quality (EOS) in implementing the harmonisation of 7000 national standards by the end of the year 2008 in line with the EU norms and international requirements, in addition to support the EOS in developing a strategy, manual of procedures and Strategic Sectoral Technical Committees (SSTC) to improve the links between EOS and industrial community. Issuance of Conformity Certificates Certification bodies for management systems The National Quality Programme supports these bodies to be accredited in the field of issuance of conformity certificates for management systems in line with international standards such as ISO 9000, ISO 14000 and ISO 22000 and other related international standards. Certification bodies for products This activity will gain importance over the next several years. Hence, the National Quality Programme supports these bodies for improving the utilization of accreditation and developing a few institutions already performing tasks such as prototype approval, laboratory testing, surveillance visits and product mark licensing schemes to the best international practice.

Industrial Excellence Awards 2010-2011 IMC will launch the Industrial Excellence Awards 2010-2011 to recognize the best performing companies Award details and eligibility criteria will be published for all IMC clients through IMC website, in addition to the IMC headquarter, BRCs, Industrial Chambers and Export Councils.