As an actual example of SDoC Overview of JAPAN VCCI As an actual example of SDoC WTO ITA Workshop April 23, 2003 Haruyoshi NAGASAWA Researcher METI, Japan (Executive Board Director VCCI)

Pharmaceutical Affairs Law 1．EMC Control Scheme of Japan Emission Immunity Each Industry Each Industry Each Industry ITE VCCI Association's Computers, Computers, PDAs PDAs , , Standard Standard Standard Peripherals Peripherals TTE Facsimiles, Facsimiles, Radio Law Industry Industry Modems Modems Association's Radios, Radios, Standard Standard Standard Mobile Phones Mobile Phones Electrical Copiers Copiers Microwave Ovens Each Industry Appliance TVs, VCRs, Refrigerators, Association's Transformers, Electronic Wires, Transformers, Electronic Wires, Standard Standard Standard Fluorescent Lights, others Electrical Appliance and Material Safety Law ＭＲＩ　Equipment, X-ray Generator, others Medical Electrical Equipment JIS T0601-1-2(IEC 60601-1-1) Pharmaceutical Affairs Law Only Industry Guideline for Immunity except for Medical Electrical Equipment

2. What’s VCCI? VCCI Inauguration Membership Operation Exclusiveness Voluntary Control Council for Interference by Information Technology Equipment Inauguration 1985 (when CISPR 22 released) By Related Industry Associations - JEIDA (IT) - EIAJ (Electronic Devices, Home) - JBMA (Business machines) - CIAJ (Telecom) JEITA (Oct, 2000) Membership Operation No Restriction with Nationality More than 1,200 membership (as of Jan, 2003) Exclusiveness No other bodies controlling EMI of ITE in Japan

Technical specifications Well harmonized with CISPR 22 and CISPR 16 Self verification test with a filed test site Self Declaration Approach Filing a declaration (conformance report) with VCCI office More than 6,000 reports in 2001 e-filing started since 2002 Regular Market Sampling test practice More than 600 samples tested cumulatively Increasing annual sampling Products

Test Laboratory Filing Membership Ranks A to C for members to market their IT product in Japan A, B, or C depends on selling volume Now Rank A members are less than 3 % of all membership A > B > C in annual membership charge Rank D for members not to market their IT product in Japan Test Laboratory Filing Test lab to be used for VCCI compliance test must be filed to the VCCI prior to starting a VCCI compliance process Technical assessment required for the filing through either VCCI Measuring facility examination (document only) , or VLAC on-site assessment (ISO 17025 + VCCI technical specs)

Test Laboratory Filing Test Laboratory Filing (continued) - Certification through VCCI examination of site report (1993 Apr. - ) 　　Around 1,500 applications (1993 - 1998)    -  Accreditation through VLAC on-site assessment (1998 Apr. - ) 　　 Since 1998 April Since 1993 April Test Laboratory Filing VCCI Lab Accreditation VLAC Lab Certification  　　Accreditation or Certification is a member-option

VCCI Self-Declaration Process Flow example VCCI Members Test Lab Registration Conformance Test Conformance Report (SDoC) Product Shipment Sampling from Market Application Certification Notification Acknowledge Filing Filing Selection from the File Market Sampling Test VCCI

3. Current Status of Activity 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 Fiscal Year Members Oversea's D Oversea's C Oversea's Ｂ Ａ Japanese D Japanese C Japanese B Japanese A 141 179 235 303 341 392 441 473 545 612 703 849 927 1022 1093 1126 Growth of the Membership

Membership detail (Rank Based) JAPANESE D 6% OVERSEA'S B 2% JAPANESE B JAPANESE A JAPANESE C 39% OVERSEA'S Ｃ OVERSEA'S A 0% OVERSEA'S D 10% 1126 Category Membership Ratio (%) Japanese A 23 2.0 B 21 1.9 C 442 39.3 D 63 5.6 Overseas 1 0.1 26 2.3 433 38.5 117 10.4 Total 1126 100.0 As of March 31, 2002

Membership detail (country based) Ratio(%) A, B, C D Total USA 176 47 223 38.6 Chinese Taipei 161 20 181 31.4 Korea 68 11 79 13.7 Germany 9 3.5 UK 10 8 18 3.1 Israel 4 13 2.3 Canada 7 2 1.6 Singapore 1 5 0.9 China 3 0.5 Others 15 26 4.5 460 117 577 100 CHINESE TAIPEI KOREA ISRAEL CANADA C HAINA UK GERMANY U.S.A SINGAPORE OTHERS 577 As of March 31, 2002

Test Site Registration Application total (renewal included) 3000 2800 2600 2400 2200 2000 Conducted 1800 1600 1400 Anech 3m 1200 1000 Anech10m Open 3m 800 600 Open 10m 400 200 Open 30m 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 Year

Test Site Registration 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000 2200 2400 2600 2800 3000 6 9 12 3 net registration renewal 3 6 9 12 3 6 9 12 3 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 Year

Product Registration Fiscal Year # of Registration 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 7000 Other 6000 LAN Equipment Communication Equipment 5000 Modem Fax 4000 Terminal # of Registration I/O 3000 Display Printer Memory 2000 WS Personal Computer 1000 Computer

ORGANIZATION JEITA / JBMIA / CIAJ CHAIRMAN Members VICE-CHAIRMAN JEITA / JBMIA / CIAJ BOARD OF DIRECTORS STEERING COMMITTEE REGISTRATION COMMITTEE MEASURING FACILITY SECRETARIAT OFFICE Subcommittees EVALUATION WG PLANNING TECNICAL INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Committees and Subcommittees consist of 100 or more competent members from VCCI Member Companies, Independent Laboratories, Universities and National Laboratories. MARKET SAMPLING TEST COMMUNICATIONS EDUCATION & TRAINING Committees lead policy development and course of action

4. Implementation of SDoC and Post-Market Surveillance Product Ship Marketplace Sampling Conformity Reporting Request Acknowledge Market Sampling A-C Members VCCI Test (MST) SC Result Reporting MST Results Actions Request Designation Results Report Test by Designated Public Test houses VCCI Conformity Reporting to Sampling Test

Summary of VCCI Compliance Verification Process Time-to-market conscious ! Enhance Post-surveillance ! Technical Specifications: CISPR 22 / CISPR 16-1 Test Lab Registration (Filing): With No VCCI Technical Assessment for Site Report: ‘85 - ‘93 thru VCCI Technical Assessment for Site Report: ‘93 - thru VLAC Accreditation: ‘98 - Self-Verification Tests before Product Marketing Submission of Conformance Report (sort of DoC, not test report) to VCCI Self Marking on Product/Manual Periodical Market Sampling Tests by VCCI

Where VCCI Scheme located in the WW Regulations? SDoC zone CATEGORY GROUP1 GROUP2 TEST LAB. TESTING CONFORMITY KNOWN COUNTRIES ... Self- Verification Test Declaration Malaysia Singapore* Many Others Australia / NZ EU GROUP4 GROUP5 GROUP6 Accreditation Certification (Filing) Authorized- US(FCC PC’s) US(FCC) Canada (ICES) Korea Chinese Taipei GROUP3 VCCI (certification)* China PRESENTATION Restricted Russia LEGAL No Legal except VCCI REQUIREMENT (accreditation)* (TCB) Mexico Note: (*) - Certification is awarded through an application document examination by VCCI. - Accreditation by VLAC is only accepted for now Provided by VCCI (Reference only)

VCCI Sampling Test Record (7th - 19th) # of sample A B Ａ Ｂ Total 3 16 7 11 2 13 21 1 14 26 52 30 12 17 22 19 4 23 10 Pass 6 18 48 24 9 15 5 8 Fail 7th Telephone 8th FAX 82 9th Word Processor 10th Work Station 17th Overseas Members’ 18th PCs 15th PC 16th All 33 13th 19th Copier 25 14th 39 11th Printer 40 12th note A: Pass Judgment but Insufficient Margin and sending a caution letter. note B: Pass Judgment but Critical Margin and sending a warning letter to encourage review of Quality Process. with note B note A Class Products Product No. WP

5. Awareness Building Actions Results Reach out to Industry Associations ( in Japan and Overseas) Invite a number of competence people into the committee activities Take every opportunity to participate in various Computer and 　 Business Exhibitions Hold annual Technical Workshops / Seminars Run advertisement in Magazines and Newspapers / Ad. Posters Results VCCI standards incorporated into member companies’ standards as 　　essential as their quality standards VCCI compliance has become a de facto requisite for trades in Japan The Eco Mark Program adopted VCCI as a condition for PCs and Printers qualification Public recognition of VCCI mark steadily growing

The Eco Mark Program is administrated by the Japan Environment Association (JEA) under the auspices of the Ministry of Environment denotes: “This product is tender to the earth” http://www.jeas.or.jp/ecomark/english/

in the car of Tokyo Metro Ad. Poster displayed in the car of Tokyo Metro Ad. Poster displayed in the Japan Railway Station “AKIHABARA”

Exhibition EMC Japan 2002 CEATEC Japan 2002

6. Advantages of Industry Self-Regulation 1. Economic Advantages The policy of Government of Japan to honor industry’s voluntarism in controlling EMC was very successful as consumers and manufacturers have enjoyed saving amounting to as much as: US$ 204M since the establishment of VCCI (1985) (according to our calculation) It was very effective to foster IT industries 2. Technical Advantages Flexible in Operation Fast market access Up-to-date International Standards applicable

Compliance Reliability “Industry Self-Regulations” fulfill all the conditions for regulation Key Elements COST to Market TIME to Market Compliance Reliability Implementing International Standards timely-basis a - Providing Uniform interpretation of rules Creating Mind-set as “Our Rule”

VLAC For Facilitating MRA Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Center (VLAC) established by VCCI in 1998 April Now Independent of VCCI operation Operation complied with ISO Guide 58   Accrediting VCCI Rules / CISPR 22 / CISPR 24 with ISO Guide 25 Anyone can get assessment and accreditation The VCCI recognized accrediting organization Participation to APLAC planned for ISO 58 mutual approval

Immunity Handling of Immunity or Susceptibility - No plan to implement immunity requirements by VCCI - to be handled as a Quality issue legal quality Self Verification or SDoC Japan (Medical) EU (except for Medical) US AUS/NZ Chinese Taipei？ China? Others? Certification Korea --- World Wide Immunity Requirements

(Executive Board Director) Contact VCCI　Web　 http://www.vcci.or.jp Haruyoshi Nagasawa (Executive Board Director) nagasawa@vcci.or.jp