1. Title: ASEAN-Japan Cooperation on
Thirty Fourth APEC Transportation Working Group Meeting, Brisbane, Australia
13-17 June 2011
Title: ASEAN-Japan Cooperation on
Development of Technical Regulation
and Establishment of a Type Approval
System for Vehicle
Name: Hiroshi Morita
Organization: JASIC(Japan Automobile
Standards Internationalization Center)
Economy: Japan

2. Contents
1. ASEAN Harmonization Activity
2. ASEAN-Japan Cooperation

3. 1. ASEAN Harmonization Activity

4. ASEAN Economic Integration by 2015
1. ASEAN Harmonization Activity
ASEAN
Indonesia , Malaysia , Philippines , Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos , Vietnam
ASEAN Economic Integration by 2015
Elimination of technical barriers to trade in Automotives sector
Free Trade -Fair Market -Single Market
(As like one country)

5. 1. ASEAN Harmonization Activity
ACCSQ-APWG
ASEAN Leaders agreed to give a mandate to AEM to accelerate the integration of 11 priority sectors to achieve ASEAN Economic Integration
(Wood based products, Automotives, Rubber based products, Textiles and apparels, Agro based products, Fisheries, Electronics, e-ASEAN, Healthcare, Air Travel, dan Tourism)
Based on roadmap for ASEAN integration, ACCSQ Leaders agreed to establish new PWGs to accommodate the above mandate, in which one of them is PWG on Automotives (APWG).
ASEAN Economic Minister Meeting( AEM)
ASEAN Senior Economic Official Meeting (SEOM)
ASEAN Consultative Committee on Standards and Quality (ACCSQ)
ACCSQ Structure
APWG
Automotive
Product Working
Group
ASEAN is going to adopt UN ECE Regulations in order to harmonize technical regulations for Automotives among ASEAN countries
at ACCSQ-APWG

6. 1. ASEAN Harmonization Activity
Latest Status for acceding 1958 Agreement in ASEAN Countries
Country
1958 Agreement
Remark
Thailand
acceded
Malaysia
Indonesia
Plan to accede
Plan to Join at 2011?
Philippines
Singapore
Under consideration
Vietnam
Plan to Join at ?
Brunei ?
Myanmar
Cambodia
Laos
For the moment, only two ASEAN countries had joined 1958 Agreement.

7. ASEAN MRA 1. ASEAN Harmonization Activity < Objectives>
ASEAN is discussing establishment of MRA under ACCSQ-APWG
ASEAN MUTUAL RECOGNITION ARRANGEMENT ON VEHICLE TYPE APPROVAL FOR AUTOMOTIVE
< Objectives>
To enhance cooperation amongst Member States in ensuring the safety and quality of automotive products marketed in ASEAN
To create a single market and reduce restrictions to trade in automotive sector through the harmonization of technical and safety requirements for automotive products.
< Scope >
To facilitate mutual recognition of conformity assessment results of automotive products

8. 1. ASEAN Harmonization Activity
< Technical Regulations >
To use them based on UNECE Regulations issued by the designated conformity assessment bodies. NO
AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCT
UNECE REGULATION 1.
Seat belt anchorage
R14 2.
Seat belt
R16 3.
Pneumatic tyre – passenger
R30 4.
Safety glass
R43 5.
Noise emission
R51 6.
Pneumatic tyre - commercial
R54
<Discussing at ACCSQ-APWG>
ASEAN Automotive Committee
Apply
Competent Authority
AAC
Approve
Technical Services

9. 2. ASEAN-Japan Cooperation

10. Background 2. ASEAN-Japan Cooperation
Project Proposal for Technical Assistance for the Automotive Sector under the ASEAN-Japan Cooperation was presented to Japan during the ACCSQ-METI (JAPAN) meeting held in August 2010.
During the ACCSQ-METI Meeting, Japan presented a counter proposal for ASEAN on the automotive sector proposing that the activities should be carried out also as a part of activities by the Transport Ministers of ASEAN Member States and Japan last year.
It was agreed that Japan would consolidate the proposals.
note: "ASEAN-Japan Cooperative Program on Development of Technical Regulations and Establishment of a Type Approval System for Vehicle" was endorsed by the Transport Ministers of ASEAN Member States and Japan last November.

11. 2. ASEAN-Japan Cooperation
Japan proposal
Japan proposed the revised project proposal: ACCSQ-APWG WS (one-day workshop on UNECE regulations, VTA and COP )
for Technical Assistance for the Automotive Sector under the ASEAN-Japan Cooperation during the ACCSQ-APWG held in April 2011.
It was agreed that ACCSQ-APWG WS to be held back-to-back with the ACCSQ-APWG special task force meeting in July 2011.
Japan is preparing for the ACCSQ-APWG WS cooperating with ASEAN Secretariat.

12. 2. ASEAN-Japan Cooperation
Relation Map between ASEAN/ACCSQ-APWG and Japan

13. 2. ASEAN-Japan Cooperation
ACCSQ-APWG Workshop
One day in July 2011
Date
Jakarta, Indonesia
Place
Participants
ASEAN countries and Japan
Purpose
To give technical assistance for the understanding of member states on
1958 and 1998 Agreements.
Vehicle Type Approval (VTA).
Conformity of Production (COP) requirements and obligations under the 1958 Agreement.
Topics
History and contents of each version of ECE regulations
The latest information on IWVTA activity

14. 2. ASEAN-Japan Cooperation
A topic in the Workshop (1)
Example: History of ECE Regulation amendment
WP.29 minutes
WP.29/885
para 131
Final Document WP.29/895
Regulation No. ECE43-00
Series00 Supplement.7
Discussed in
128th WP29
ECE/TRANS/WP.29/343/Rev/19
Page 215
REGULATION No.43
Adopted by AC.1
Document
reference
E/ECE/324
E/ECE/TRANS
/505/Rev.1
Date of entry into force
Status of
Document
Session (date)
Report
TRANS/WP.29/…
Adopted
document
TRANS/WP.29/…
Add 42/Rev.2
Suppl.7
to 00
128
885, para 131
895
131
953, para 111
970
Add 42/Rev.2
/Amend.1
Suppl.8
to 00 …
Changing the technical requirement (impression on design)
Changing the certification mark
Including provisional revision
Series
Supplement
Clarification of test procedures, not imposing new requirements
Not changing certification mark
Corrigendum
A Corrigendum consists of corrections to previously issued texts
Date of entry into force of adoption by the Administrative Committee AC.1

15. 2. ASEAN-Japan Cooperation The informal group on IWVTA
A topic in the Workshop (2)
the latest information on IWVTA activity provided.
The informal group on IWVTA
Objective
To make a roadmap for establishing the common bases of IWVTA　and revising the 1958 Agreement
Chair
Chairman: Chairman of WP29
Co Vice-chairmen: EC and Japan
Schedule
17 June 2011 in Paris
Participation
Any country can participate in the meeting
excerpt of the report of the last WP29 [ECE/TRANS/WP.29/1089]:
The representative of France, chairing the informal group on IWVTA, … informed WP.29 about the intention of the group to identify the amendments necessary to the 1958 Agreement with possible solutions to be presented and endorsed by WP.29 at the November session.

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