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ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING 2014
REPORT FROM
DIRECTOR GENERAL
About IFIA
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A federation of organisations that provide
testing, inspection and certification services,
internationally
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Established in 1982
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Current global membership of 48 testing and
inspection companies
-  A combined turnover of approximately €18 billion and
260,000 employees*
-  Approximately 44% of membership turnover in
Europe, 26% in Asia Pacific, 20% in North America
and 10% Rest of World*
* Data relates to year end 2013 membership Finances
•  Member subscriptions for 2015 will generate about
£600,000
•  Range of subscription £4,150 (C2) to £40,000 (A1)
•  Projected total income 2015: £1,100,000
•  Projected expenditure 2015: £1,180,000
•  Reserves at start of 2014: £388,878
IFIA Membership 2014
A1 (turnover >€800 Million) ALS Group Bureau Veritas Dekra Intertek SGS TŰV Rheinland TŰV Sud Underwriters Laboratories B2 (€100M -­‐ €300M) Canadian Standards Associa@on Cotecna Rina Saybolt C1 (€10M -­‐ €100M) Alex Stewart Alfred H Knight Amspec Bal@c Control Camin Cargo Control Cer@spec Control Union Geo Chem Mitra Overseas Merchandise Inspec@on (OMIC) PT Sucofindo SchuOer RoOerdam C2 turnover (<€10M) Almaty Exper@se Cargo Inspec@ons Group Coastal Gulf & Interna@onal Control Union Interna@onal Control Quality Inspecoes Cugnier Cer@ficadora CWM Survey & Inspec@on Engineering Bureau Franke E.QU.A Frey Rearq Helmsman QTS Inspekt RGH Maloney Commodity Services Na@onal Marine Consultants Oil Test Internacional P T Carsurin Ravi Energie Rechlin Russell Seatrans Consul@ng SGT Services (Thailand) SOEX Superinspect Universal Inspectorate & Services V-­‐Trust Committees
Agricultural & Vegetable Oils
Petroleum & Petrochemical
Metals & Minerals
Industrial Services
Government Services
Consumer & Industrial Products
Food
Social Auditing
Accreditation
Compliance
Legal
Programme of Codes of Practice
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Preshipment inspection
Consignment Based Conformity Assessment
Agricultural and Vegetable Oils Inspection
Mineral Commodities Inspection
•  Near Completion:
–  Petroleum and Petrochemical Inspection
–  Social Compliance Auditing
Agriculture & Vegetable Oils (18 members)
•  US grain export inspection project (7 members):
•  aimed at USDA re-authorisation of FGIS 2015 to
allow delegation to private sector
•  Inspector Certification for liquid cargo inspection:
• Programme launched August 2014
• first 66 inspectors registered
• One year trial before opening to non-IFIA members
• New bulletins
• Fit for animal consumption
• Issuance of health certificates
• Regular contacts: GAFTA, FOSFA, RSA/SAL, ANEC
(Brazil), ISO TC 34
Petroleum & Petrochemicals (9 members)
•  Inspector
Certification
• Globally managed programme with c. 2500 inspectors
taking the exam this year (including five yearly
renewals)
•  Set of bulletins (c 30) subject to management and review
• Safe access for cargo inspections subject to dialogue
with customers
•  Collection of safety data used to demonstrate good
record for inspection in this field
•  Regular contacts: EI, API
Metals & Minerals (10 members)
•  Working Groups:
Radioactivity testing
Flow Moisture Point/Transportable Moisture Limit testing
•  Regular contacts: London Metals and other Exchanges,
IMO, Intercargo, Intertanko
Industrial Services (5 members)
•  Working Groups:
–  CE marking in the Pressure Equipment field
–  Inter-Operability between Smart Grid components
•  Co-ordination with CEOC committees
Government Services (9 members)
•  Six IFIA members operating the new Code of Practice for
Consignment Based Conformity Assessment (CBCA)
have been audited, and are listed on the IFIA website
•  Six members active and subject to audit under the PSI
Code of Practice
Regular contacts: WTO, EU DG Trade, Ministries in
various countries
Consumer & Industrial Products (8 members) •  The Committee (with support from CEOC) has performed a third year of
surveys of consumer products carrying the CE marking, comparing those
tested by a third party with those based on manufacturer’s declaration
(SDOC). This year we have added testing of samples of the same
products (all subject to third party certification) on the US market. The
results strengthen the case in favour of third party
•  We are using these results to promote third party testing with the EU
authorities. The present intention is to give ammunition to other interested
parties to persuade the authorities no longer to allow the CE marking to
appear on consumer products, opening the way for a new European
Safety Tested Mark based on third party.
•  CIPC is also orchestrating IFIA lobbying both sides of the Atlantic on the
Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership proposals (TTIP). There are
threats to guard against for our industry, but also opportunities to attack
structural barriers to effective performance of TIC
•  Regular contacts: in EU: EU Commission, EU member State authorities,
ANEC, BEUC, ORGALIME, PROSAFE ; in US: OSHA, CIPC
Food (10 members)
•  Investigation into leveraging food fraud and food
waste for the promotion of members’ testing
services
•  Exploring unifying food auditor training and
certification
• Regular contacts: GFSI, IFS, BRC
Social Auditing (7 members) •  Group formed originally to address only integrity (SOPs) now
developing to be a full sector committee
•  Building from the Code of Practice defining the service
provided, now seeking to establish a professional association
for social compliance auditors within IFIA
•  Regular contacts: GSCP, major brand name and retailer
common customers
Accreditation (10 members)
•  Acts through EA Advisory Board (European Accreditation)
to drive European accreditation bodies to act as a network
and not do repeat national assessments
•  Project to challenge ILAC adding new requirements to
the ISO standards against which TIC companies are
accredited
• Regular contacts: EA, IAF, ILAC, ISO
Legal and Compliance (12 members)
•  The Legal Committee provides a forum for exchange of
experience between members’ Legal Counsels on
matters such as risk mapping/management and assuring
the compliance of business partners
•  It plans to host a seminar next year to expand these
discussions to the smaller members
•  The Compliance Committee has reviewed IFIA’s
requirements for third party reporting on members’
compliance programmes and has concluded that there
should be enough flexibility in the IFIA system to enable
applicants, both big and small, to fit their programmes
into the system
State Owned TIC Enterprises
•  The China Working Group is recommending that IFIA
builds on the dialogue, started following CCIC’s application
for IFIA membership, just to establish a regular channel of
communication between IFIA and the Chinese authorities
•  The immediate objective should therefore not be either
IFIA Membership for them (which would be against our
rules) or increased access to Chinese TIC markets for us
•  Both of these are only likely to follow from regular
engagement, which IFIA should seek to facilitate for the TIC
industry
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