Bangkok, Thailand, 25 August 2014

Collaboration program with Brunei, Observation & Suggestion

Jongbong Park, Director,

TTA of Koreajongbong@tta.or.kr

ITU Regional Standardization Forum for Asia Pacific Region

(Bangkok, Thailand, 25 August 2014)

Areas Topics

Conformity Assessment

Legislation and policy for conformity assessment Framework for conformity assessment Best practice

Standardization Standardization framework - Mandatory standard vs Voluntary standard

Int’l Standardization

How to & why correspond to ITU activities How to set up national study group (secretariat) to

correspond to ITU activities

Discussion Topic

Main idea for Discussion

There is no right answer for policy and systemEvery country has to find their own way under their own circumstances Recommendations and suggestions by TTA are only reference to support AITI’s decision

In this regard, TTA shared best practices of various countries in related with standardization and conformity assessment

The cases include developed countries, developing countries, countries who are in lack of industry, to seek an optimal answer through comparing & analyzing those cases

Characteristics of Brunei

High GDP per capita (Approx. USD 40,000)High demands for new ICT products Rapid importing process demanded

Small size of economy (The size of population is approx. 400,000)

Relatively small volume of importing products The cost for getting test report could become a factor for increasing import cost

Technical regulations of Brunei are identical to those of Singapore

High possibility of utilizing ICT framework of Singapore

National Standard Committee under Ministry of Industry and Primary Resources has structured a well defined platformNo committee for communications

Brunei Specific : Need to harmonize with NSC

AITI is required to participate in the NSC activities as a secretariat and/or participants

(e.g) Singapore case

MICAMICA

11 Standards Committee

InformationTechnologyInformationTechnology ChemicalChemical ……

IDA SPRING SingaporeSPRING Singapore

TSAC

Special WGSpecial WGWG 1~NWG 1~N

MTIMTI

……

Support

MICA : Ministry of Information, Communication and ArtsMTI : Ministry of Trade and IndustryIDA : Infocomm. Development AuthorityTSAC : Telecommunication Standards Advisory Committee

Brunei Specific : Need to harmonize with NSC

Need a forum to coordinate views in int’l activities Not only ITU but also others, like APT

NSG 17

Responsible Agency

SecretariatNational Advisory Committee for ITU

Funding

(D)(D) (R)(R) National Advisory Committee for ITU-TNational Advisory Committee for ITU-T

NSG 2 NSG 3

NSG: National Study Group

Brunei Specific : Need for Working Platform

Functions

• Management of the national organization and processes

• Dissemination of information from ITU/APT/others

• Responses to ITU inquiries/consultations

• Development of national positions, strategies and

action plans for ITU/APT/others

• Leading international delegations

• Reviewing ITU recommendations to adopt them

as a Technical Specification or Standard

Brunei Specific : Need for Working Platform

Who makes Mandatory Standard?Regulator? Ministry?ICT technologies and services develop rapidly, accordingly, regulations on ICT services should keep up with the change (Government officer is not a superman)Small streams come together to form a river (Participation from various stakeholders makes Mandatory Standard more valid and it can lead self regulationWorking platform to develop/review the standard composed of the stakeholders is neededType of participation can be optional, writing a draft? Or only for review

Brunei Specific : Participation from stakeholders

On the 2nd stage, make regulation (mandatory standards) be minimum

Deregulation and privatization are global trendWorking platform is also needed for development / review of a voluntary standardExperts who are involved in activity for mandatory standards will be also participating in voluntary standardizationNature of a mandatory and voluntary standard is different, however, attribute of activities in developing/reviewing is similar

Brunei Specific : Participation from stakeholders

Mandatory Standard exists Test Technical Specification

No Voluntary Standard

Regulation should be minimum and the remaining things should be treated by standards

Easy to revise (In case that a regulation refers to an int’l standard and the int’l standard is revised regularly)Flexible to accommodate views from various stakeholders

Brunei Specific : Mandatory vs. Voluntary

Brunei Specific : Conformance Assessment

It has its own specific CA systemRequiring dealer license to facilitate and regulate the sale & import of telecom equipment and to make sure the equipment is safe for consumer

Levelling 3 type of equipment according to a risk of the equipment, and operating different processes in accordance with the level (level 1~3)

There is no testing laboratories so that it requires only brochure of equipment and/or test report and/or certificate from testing labs outside of the country

No way to verify the certificate, test report as well as the testing lab itself

Brunei Specific : Conformance Assessment

TTA made some suggestions to the CA system

Test reports could be produced by either in-house lab of manufacturer or accredited lab regardless of geographical location, domestic or abroad, with responsibility of response from AITI request

Since technical regulation in Brunei is identical to one in Singapore, TUV in Singapore could become a major resource for producing test reports for Brunei

AITI is recommended to drive signing-up MRA with many economies as possible,

(It is beneficial for Brunei to accredit test reports from MRA labs designated by Singapore)

Further Development of some suggestions for Brunei

Possibility for study visit to Korea will be reviewed

Continue to collaborate with AP countries for enhancing its standardization capabilities

Future Plan