1. 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)

2. 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 T (IEC )
Pharmaceutical Affairs Law
Only Industry Guideline for Immunity except for Medical Electrical Equipment

3. 2. What’s VCCI? VCCI Inauguration Membership Operation Exclusiveness
Voluntary Control Council for Interference
by Information Technology Equipment
Inauguration
(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

4. 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

5. 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 VCCI technical specs)

6. Test Laboratory Filing
Test Laboratory Filing (continued)
- Certification through VCCI examination of site report (1993 Apr. - )
　　Around 1,500 applications ( )   
-  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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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)

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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”

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

22. Exhibition
EMC Japan 2002
CEATEC Japan 2002

23. 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

24. 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”

25. 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

26. 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
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World Wide Immunity Requirements

27. (Executive Board Director)
Contact
VCCI　Web　
Haruyoshi Nagasawa
(Executive Board Director)