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2016/TEL53/LSG/002 Agenda Item: 2

TEL52 Liberalization Steering Group Meeting Convenor’s Report

Purpose: Information

Submitted by: LSG Convenor

Liberalization Steering Group Meeting Tacna, Peru

16 June 2016

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APEC TEL 52 Liberalization Steering Group (LSG) Report October 22, 2015, Auckland, New Zealand

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The LSG meeting was held on May 15. The Convenor Mr. Mitsuhiro HISHIDA, from Japan was unable to join the meeting so LSG Deputy, Mr. Nguyen Duc Toan, from Viet Nam convened the LSG meeting. LSG Session I 1. Opening 1.1 Welcoming remarks from the LSG Convenor and Deputy Convenor

Deputy Convenor welcomed the delegates to the LSG TEL 52 meeting. 1.2 Adoption of the Agenda

The LSG draft agenda was reviewed and adopted by all economies. 2. Overview of the TEL51 LSG Report

The meeting noted the briefing on the TEL51 LSG Report by Deputy Convenor, Mr. Nguyen Duc Toan, from Viet Nam. 3. Workshop Outcomes and Project Updates 3.1 Regulatory Roundtable (New Zealand) The LSG Regulatory Roundtable was held on 20 October with 52 participants, , and chaired by Mr Brad Ward, General Manager, New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. The session included six speakers, two from New Zealand and four from other APEC economies. Five were from government, and one was from industry.

The topic of the roundtable was ICT connectivity, with public-private partnerships in broadband investment, and structural separation as strong subthemes. These topics contribute to the objective of ‘Enhanced physical connectivity’, specified under section 3.1 of the APEC TE Strategic Action plan 2016 - 2020.

New Zealand thanks all those who attended and participated in the success of this workshop.

Summary of proceedings:

Mr Aisharuddin Nuruddin from the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission spoke about Malaysia’s experiences of convergence under the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998. He outlined the history of Malaysia’s economic development goals and the desire of the country to move towards and innovation-led knowledge economy. The 1998 Act brought together the previously separate telecommunications, broadcasting and online services legislation in recognition of the

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impact of convergence. He noted that the challenges involved in facilitating convergence are simultaneously institutional, legal and sectoral. He also explained that Malaysia’s licencing system had to be updated to reflect the impact of convergence.

Mr Rizwan Chowdry of the Federal Communications Commission spoke about how his organisation had grappled with convergence issues, particularly with regards to the migration of consumers from copper based networks to modern IP-based networks. He noted that networks, devices and services are all evolving, and the FCC is working hard to make sure that in the transition to next generation networks no one is left behind. From an institutional design point of view, he pointed out that his organisation is a converged one, with both policy and regulatory functions.

Ms Chris Perera spoke from a commercial perspective about AT&T’s perspective on convergence. She outlined AT&Ts commercial history, and impact of the mega trends of globalisation and virtualisation. She also explored AT&T’s strategic investment in connectivity, being a fully-integrated solutions provider, and work on the Internet of Things. She noted that the company has been transforming their mobile and business solutions products, and has been investing heavily in software defined networking. She finished with some suggestions for regulatory modernisation.

Dr Lin Mao-shong, Senior Technical Specialist from the Chinese Taipei National Communications Commission spoke about Chinese Taipei’s experience of convergence. He particularly addressed three questions: what drives digital convergence, what can governments do for digital convergence, and what Chines Taipei has done. He outlined the large work programme he had been involved in a number of years, and noted that it was a time-consuming process. He finished by noting that convergence is a non-stop process and the scope is continuously getting wider all the time.

Mr Osmond Borthwick from the New Zealand Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment spoke about New Zealand’s experiences of convergence, and the work his team has been doing reviewing the Telecommunications Act. He noted that convergence involves the ability of a single network to provide previously distinct services, and also brings with it the rise of OTT services and new players in old markets. He noted that convergence can be good for consumers, but can present challenges to regulatory regimes – we need to make sure our laws are up to date and that there aren’t any gaps. In light of these changes, and structural separation, the Ultra-Fast Broadband and Rural Broadband Initiative programmes, his team is currently reviewing the telecommunications act with a view to getting settings right for the long term.

Ms Carrie Cooke from the New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage spoke about convergence, but with a particular impact on the challenges it poses for content regulation. She noted that NZ is a small market for technology, media and entertainment,

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and that very recently consumers had very little competition and choice. This has changed to some extent with shifts in market structures and new opportunities presented by the internet. She said that convergence is only one part of the disruptive technological change we are seeing in New Zealand and around the world. Her organisation has oversight of 10 pieces of legislation, and giving them a health check is a significant amount of work, and involves close collaboration with many agencies across government. . 3.2 Industry Roundtable (New Zealand)

The LSG Industry Roundtable was held on 20 October with 52 participants. The roundtable was organised by New Zealand, and chaired by Mr Osmond Borthwick. The session included six speakers, five from New Zealand and one from Australia. Five presentations were from industry, and one was from government.

The first speaker, Mr Graham Mitchell, CEO of Crown Fibre Holdings Ltd, talked about structural separation and the New Zealand government’s Ultra-Fast Broadband Fibre-to-the-Home initiative, which will ultimately see 80% of New Zealanders with access to fibre. He explored the institutional organisation of the UFB programme, and the progress New Zealand has made, as well as some challenges involved in the programme.

The second speaker, Mr Darren Mason, CEO of Northpower Fibre, talked about his

company’s experience participating in the Ultra Fast Broadband programme building fibre in New Zealand’s Northland area. He talked about the challenges involved in his company’s ambitious build programme, and how his company has engaged the community to make the most of the connectivity infrastructure. He noted that many of the lessons his company had learned were being picked up by other fibre companies.

The Third speaker, Mr Lindsay Cowley, General Manager International from Spark

Ltd, talked about the company’s experience of being structurally separated from the network provider Chorus. He noted that New Zealand has gone from a monopoly to a very competitive market with average connection speeds increasing fast. He explained that because open access fibre has opened the market to fixed-line competition, Spark views their mobile network as a key point of difference. He suggested that structural separation has helped to clarify the incentives of different organisations and has been largely beneficial, but that it also presented some challenges which the industry is still grappling with.

The fourth presentation was delivered jointly by Mr Tristan Kathage and Dr Dan

Tangri from the Australian Department of Communications and the Arts, and focused on the Australian experience of structural separation. They explained that the NBN was set up in 2009, as a wholly-owned Government company operating at arms length – with the aim ultimately to roll out infrastructure as fast as possible and at least possible cost to taxpayers. From a policy view, they noted that the NBN represents a new approach: with a wholesale only network and strong non-discriminatory provisions. New, competing high-speed networks are also subject to regulation.

The fifth speaker, Mr Ross Young from Google spoke about how his company views

the free flow of data across borders as driving innovation and growth. He noted that the internet is a huge driver of growth in all our economies, and that policy makers play a role in facilitating continued growth. He argued that regulation which prohibits the flow of data

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across borders is misguided, and that any benefits to the local industry is outweighed by higher costs for the rest of the economy. He also suggested that keeping data in one place makes it a target for hackers, and that the most secure and safest option would be to securely distribute content around the world.

The sixth presentation was delivered jointly by Ms Carolyn Stuart and Mr Chris South

of New Zealand Crown company Network for Learning Ltd. They explained that network for Learning is a managed network provider for schools around New Zealand – they work closely with schools to provide them with fast, reliable and predictable connectivity services at no cost to them. They also talked about ‘Pond’, an interactive media portal which allows New Zealand teachers to share educational resources which each other in the interests of increasing the quality of material and also reducing duplicated and unnecessary effort of teachers. 3.3 Workshop on Next Generation Broadcasting of Japan was postponed 4. MRA Task Force Meeting Report The CA&MRA Task Force (CA&MRA TF) Meeting was chaired by the Chair Mr. Roger Sheng from Chinese Taipei. CA&MRA TF Chair made the report at the LSG meeting. The MRA TF met over three sessions over two days with 26 delegates from 14 economies and had discussed xx contributions.

Regarding Project G, Guidelines for Market Surveillance were reviewed. The final draft of this document is done at this meeting. Also the Guide for Conformity Assessment Body to APEC TEL MRA, and the Guide for Industry to APEC TEL MRA are also finalized. These documents now were submitted to LSG for endorsement and The convenor mentioned to inform such documents to submit to TEL for approval.

Because FCC’s regulation change may be affected USA’s multilateral and bilateral

MRA partners, some economies hope that USA should support the partners to meet the requirement.

Mr Roger Sheng from Chinese Taipei will be retired in the next meeting. CA& MRA

TF asks for TEL approval that Mr Hj. Jailani Buntar (Brunei Darussalam), the vice chair of CA&MRA TF will be a chair of CA MRA TF.

Candidate from Japan for Vice Chair of CA MRA TF was sought the consensus and

The new Vice-Chair may be appointed at the plenary II. For the further information, refer to the appendix.

5. TEL Strategic Action Plan 2016-2020

Prioritization of TEL Strategic Action Plan 2016 – 2020 The Convenor informed the meeting that there was guidance from the TEL chair to clarify the prioritization of each action described in TEL Strategic Action Plan 2016 – 2020.

Chinese Taipei has commented the deputy convenor position in LSG that Vietnam

may become the first deputy convenor to Tel 53 and no economy have no objection. The Convenor noted that and reported to Tel.

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6. LSG Contributions to TEL Strategic Action Plan 2010-2015

Japan made a presentation on international roaming rates. In which they propose on how to reduce International Data Roaming Rate in domestic regulation and to include International Mobile Roaming Provision in Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).

Mexico introduced on their progress on telecommunications and media development

in the last 20 years in order to creating conditions for broadband services growth, supporting the right to access to ICT, Encouraging competition in the broadcasting and telecommunications sectors. And the first 20 months after the Reform, Mexico now had a new telecom and media market with many high-quality of services for everyone

United States (FCC) also shared their policies for broadband development in 2015

that 99% of the population has access to broadband speeds of 10 Mbps through either wired or wireless service and 93% has access to this speed through wired service alone, at the time of June 30, 2014. And there were also investment for broadband, challenges remaining and some current broadband initiatives. They also shared some spectrum policy that Incentive Auction will be in March 2016, TV white space and spectrum sharing

LSG session Ⅱ 7. Information Exchange

There are 4 presentations as bellows: Chinese Taipei shared their information on broadband for all in Chinese Taipei. That

they achieved success in implementing mobile broadband, fixed broadband and now is focusing on broadband universal service in remote areas, libraries and schools; also their principles, strategies and challenges. And their visions will deploy ultra-fast fixed broadband network, to accelerate the growth of mobile broadband, to upgrade internet access speed in remote areas all in 2018.

Russian Federation shared their goals of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass

Communication in the stage of the 2012-2018 targeted to Telecommunications, Postal services, Mass media, Information technologies, Providing of public services in electronic form.

United States (FCC) shared their Perspectives and accomplishments in improving

Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities. Following that, they have programs for peoples who are deaf or hard of hearing, peoples who are hard of hearing and use hearing aids or cochlear implants, peoples who are blind or visually impaired, and peoples who are deaf-blind. And also are FCC institutional actions in improving Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities.

New Zealand also shares some information on the Telecommunications policies. 8. Next Meeting and Future Work 8.1 Next Industry / Regulatory Roundtable

The subjects of Next Industry/Regulatory Roundtable will be still pending and the participants will send by email late for the LSG convennor.

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8.2 New project proposals No new project proposal was not submitted in LSG . 9. Closing Remarks from the LSG Convenor and Convenor

The Convenor and thanked all delegates for their kind cooperation and active participation. He also again thanked the host economy, New Zealand.

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[Appendix] APEC TEL 52

CA & MRA Task Force Meeting Report (Draft)

Auckland, NEW ZEALAND 19 October 2015 – 20 October 2015

14:00 to 17:30 - Opening Plenary, Monday, 19 October 2015 9:00 to 12:30 - Working Session, Tuesday, 20 October 2015 14:00 to 17:30 - Closing Plenary, Tuesday, 20 October 2015

1. Welcome and Introduction

1.1 The Conformity Assessment & MRA Task Force (CA & MRA TF) met over three sessions at TEL 52. The opening plenary session of 19 October 2015 (Day one) afternoon and closing plenary session of 20 October 2015 (Day two) afternoon were dedicated to the formal agenda items while the morning session of Day two was dedicated to a working session for training and documents revision.

1.2 The Meeting was attended by twenty-six delegates from fourteen economies –Brunei Darussalam, P.R. China, Hong Kong China, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Chinese Taipei, Thailand, USA and Vietnam. The full list of delegates is attached as Attachment 1.

1.3 The Meeting was chaired by the Chair Mr. Roger Sheng from Chinese Taipei.

1.4 The Chair gave welcome remarks to all delegates to the APEC TEL 52 meeting and mentioned about the tasks of this Task Force to meet market needs and to facilitate consumer protection. The Chair invited them to introduce themselves.

1.5 As there were a few new delegates in this meeting, the Chair recapped the major issues in the report of TEL 51. The final draft report on the APEC TEL 51 meeting in Boracay, Philippines was accepted. It was considered as the final and has been posted on the APEC TEL52 website.

1.6 The meeting adopted the draft agenda and timeline for the APEC TEL52 CA & MRA Task Force Meeting as presented by the Chair. The Chair announced the topics for the working session and invited all delegates to attend.

1.7 There were eleven contributions submitted and discussed at the meeting. All documents were uploaded to the APEC TEL52 website (https://aimp2.apec.org/sites/acs/TEL/APECTEL52/default.aspx) . The Chair assigned the contributions to the appropriate agenda items.

1.8 The Chair welcomed all delegates to the meeting and thanked the host economy New Zealand for hosting the meetings.

2. Economies’ Update on MRA

Five economies (Hong Kong China, Korea, Chinese Taipei, the United States and Vietnam) gave voluntary oral updates and one economy (Canada) provided an update report on the progress of implementation and/or recent regulatory changes. These updates provided by economies are available on APEC TEL 52 website in the section of CA&MRA TF.

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Mr George Tannahill of the FCC, the United States introduced FCC’s regulation update on “FCC Equipment Authorization Program Review”, including FCC 14-208 Equipment Authorization order process changes and KDB updates. A few questions, such as transition period and notifications to affected parties like accreditation bodies, were raised by delegates of Korea, Malaysia, Chinese Taipei and the United States.

As FCC’s regulation change has affected USA’s multilateral and bilateral MRA, economies, whether having MRA with USA or not, could invite FCC to explain the detail of regulation changes to the CABs and industry in their economies.

Mr. Roger Sheng, the Chair of the CA & MRA Task Force, introduced the “Mobile App vetting regulation in Chinese Taipei”, including the App vetting scheme, accreditation standards for three different levels of App testing laboratories and applications on Apps and smart phones.

Mr. Dinh Hai Dang of the MIC, Vietnam introduced “Standards and technical regulations for ICT equipments in Vietnam”, including the legal framework, system and future plans. Questions such as technical regulations for MRA and plan of MRA scope extension were raised.

Mr. Hyeong Bae Ahn of RRA, Korea introduced the “EMC Regulation of Multimedia in Korea” including Korea’s policy on and criteria for multimedia equipment. He also noted the abolishment of standards KN13, KN20, KN22 and KN24 as well as the effective date of new standards KN 32 and KN35.

3. Case studies on the use of MRA on Conformity Assessment by industry

This is a standing agenda item seeking industry input into their successes and failures in use of the MRA-CA. No presentation was contributed to this agenda item in TEL 52 meeting.

4. Task Force projects

4.1 Project E – MRA for Equivalence of Technical Requirements (MRA-ETR)

Although the MRA-ETR implementation guideline has been completed, no member economies officially adopted the MRA-ETR currently. Member economies are encouraged to inform Chair of the status of implementing it or using the concept of it while adopting the international standards.

4.2 Project F – Stock-take of MRA implementation and benefits

Mr. Nigel Jou, the Chair of APLAC, gave a presentation on “Conformity Assessment to Trade”. He introduced the structure of trade agreement at international and regional levels and at ICT sectors, explained the important role of conformity assessment procedures and accreditation in trade agreements, and shared experiences in promoting the success story of the APEC TEL MRA in international events like WTO/TBT and WTO ITA workshops.

4.3 Project G – Guidelines for Market Surveillance

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The working session on Day two was be dedicated to finalising the draft of the “Market Surveillance Guideline”. This guideline is based on Canada’s contribution presented at APEC TEL 41 and the discussion that took place on that subject. In TEL 46, Chair proposed “Guideline for market surveillance” which was discussed in TEL43. The document was intended to provide economies with best practice in terms of market surveillance, with results from survey done earlier. In TEL 48, task force decided to develop Project G to support the regulators in member economies on market surveillance issues. After TEL 49, a renewal survey of the market surveillance activities in APEC economies was performed inter-seasonally. With the inputs and help from the delegates, in particular Mr. George Tannahill, the draft of this document has been completed and will be submitted to the LSG for endorsement.

Mr. Nob Nakanishi of ICCJ, Japan presented “Another Approach of Market Surveillance”. He suggested employing post conformity assessment procedures “document check” and “compliance inspection” approach to check whether the submitted data are true or false. This new approach is less expensive than usual market surveillance, and could be of help in certain circumstances.

5. MRA joint Committee

5.1 Review and update of APEC TEL MRA documents, MRA TF

This session was conducted in the morning of Day two to review two documents: “A Guide for Conformity Assessment Body to APEC TEL MRA”, and “A Guide for Industry to APEC TEL MRA”. The Chair took into consideration the inputs received from the group discussion in the previous meeting in Boracay and the comments provided by all member economies. The Chair also requested all delegates to update the Websites of each member economy. With the help from the delegates, in particular Mr. George Tannahill, the revision of these two documents has been completed. They will be submitted to the LSG for endorsement.

Currently, official MRA documents are listed below:

MRA for Conformity Assessment

MRA Implementation Guide

MRA Guide for Manufacturers

MRA Guide for Assessment Bodies

MRA for Equivalence of Technical Requirements

All delegates can access them in the APEC TEL MRA website:

http://www.apec.org/Groups/SOM-Steering-Committee-on-Economic-and-Technical-Cooperation/Working-Groups/Telecommunications-and-Information/APEC_TEL-MRA.aspx

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MRA Guide for Manufacturers and MRA Guide for Assessment Bodies will be published officially by the APEC secretary on APEC TEL MRA website after the endorsement.

5.2 Scope of APEC TEL MRA and Missions of Task force

As endorsed and approved by the TEL WG in TEL51, this Task Force has been renamed as Conformity Assessment and Mutual Recognition Arrangement Task Force (CA & MRATF) to reflect its tasks and work.

Originally, the equipment scope of TEL MRA covers equipment subject to telecommunications regulations of each party. It may include radio equipment, telecommunications equipment, and telephone terminal equipment. As the emergence of new technologies, digital convergence and the development of IoT (Internet of Things), more and more equipment were covered in TEL MRA.

For the parameters covered in TEL MRA, originally they included Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and electrical safety regulations. Other parameters such as SAR may apply accordingly. In TEL 51, MRA TF discussed whether the regulations of new technology such as information security and third-party mobile Apps are covered in the TEL MRA and Task Force shall reach a consensus. With further discussion, in TEL 52, CA& MRA TF reach a consensus that information security and other technical regulations related to ICT products could be covered in APEC TEL MRA and regulators in each economy will decide which specific technical regulations shall be covered in their own MRA scope.

6. Training

TF participants are invited to identify any training needs relevant to either implementation of the existing MRA on conformity assessment or the new MRA for Equivalence of Technical Requirements (MRA-ETR).

In TEL 51, Indonesia requested to have training for CA schemes, technical regulations and testing standards in TEL 52. The CA&MRATF believes it would be necessary to hold training sessions on both MRA-CA and MRA-ETR for member economies in this TEL. Another training topic on “E-labelling”, also raised in TEL51, may be addressed in future CA&MRATF meetings.

The Chair, Mr. Roger Sheng of TAF, Chinese Taipei, gave a presentation on � “Conformity Assessment Models Worldwide”. He explained different models, the link between conformity assessment, accreditation and trade, and the benefits of a successful conformity assessment model for all aspects, such as conformity assessment bodies, regulators, accreditation bodies and consumers.

Dr. Llew Richards of International Accreditation New Zealand (IANZ), New Zealand introduced “New Zealand System for Accreditation”. He mentioned that accreditation is not a governmental function though IANZ is a part of the government. He also talked about different designating procedure of different levels of conformity. For instance, New Zealand government requests for declaration of conformity but not product registration for the EMC and radio equipment.

Mr. Andrew Cutler of the EMC Technologies Ltd., New Zealand shared the “EMC Testing and Accreditation in New Zealand”. He talked about its relationship with the IANZ, the deregulation of EMC and radio equipment and the levels of conformity, and raised an issue to the FCC on recognising IANZ as an overseas accreditation body.

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7. Review of projects for TEL approval

Member economies were invited to propose and discuss projects related to the work of the MRATF. There was no MRA project looking for APEC approval in this TEL.

8. Update on the Development of Regional MRAs

8.1 There was no updated information on ASEAN Telecommunications Regulatory

Council MRA (ARTC MRA).

8.2 Mr Nob Nakanishi gave an overview of the MIC MRA International Workshop, held in Tokyo on 4-5 March 2015. The Chair, Ms Ramona Saar of NIST, Mr George Tannahill of FCC and speakers from the MIC, ICCJ, JVLATE, TCB Council, R&TTE Directive, R&TTE-CA, US CABs, EU NBs & Japan CABs were invited to share their experiences.

8.3 Mr. Adam Gouker representing APLAC gave a report on APLAC liaison, including

APLAC updates since TEL51 and ISO/IEC updates on standards 17011 and 17025. A question about the terminology harmonisation in different ISO/IEC standards, such 17025 and 17065 was raised.

9. Web based information management

Member economies are invited to check whether their MRA web pages can be accessed via the APEC TEL MRA webpage at http://www.apec.org/Groups/SOM-Steering-Committee-on-Economic-and-Technical-Cooperation/Working-Groups/Telecommunications-and-Information/APEC_TEL-MRA.aspx and, if found necessary, provide the correct URL linkages to their websites to the TF Chair.

10. Other business 10.1 Point of contact of each member economy to CA&MRA TF

10.2 Nomination of next Vice Chair:

Mr Roger Sheng of TAF, Chinese Taipei concluded his term as the Chair of the CA&MRA TF, and Mr Jailani Buntar of AITI, Brunei will take over as Chair position. The Chair invited new Vice-Chair nominations from member economies, and Japan was nominated. The new Vice-Chair will be appointed at the Heads of Delegation meeting in TEL 52.

11. Next meeting

APEC TEL 53 will be hosted by Peru. It is proposed that the next MRA Task Force meeting be held in the first two days of TEL 53 as per the conventional APEC arrangements. The opening plenary session would be in the afternoon of Day one and the closing plenary would be in the afternoon of Day two. But the timeslot could be flexible per TEL 53 host’s arrangement. The size and arrangement of MRA TF meeting room are perfect to delegates for discussion and changing information.

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12. Adjournment

The Chair thanked all delegates from member economies and guests for their participation and contributions to the TEL 52 CA&MRATF meeting, and wonderful meeting arrangements of the host economy. He also thanked all delegates for their kind support in this and past four meetings chaired by him, and gave the best wishes for future work progress of the CA&MRATF.

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【Attachment 1】

Attendance list of CA & MRA Task Force at APEC TEL 52 was collected by the host economy. For those interested in the attendance list, please contact event host.

No NAME ECONOMY Organization E-MAIL

1. Nizam Othman Brunei Darussalam

AITI Nizam.othman@aiti.gov.bn

2. Yu Li P. R. China CATR yuli@catr.cn

3. Chi Keung Cheng Hong Kong China

OFCA chikeung_cheng@ofca.gov.hk

4. Rerry Aprillia Indonesia MCIT rerr001@kominio.go.id

5. Fayzan Riyadhan Indonesia MCIT dhani@gmail.com

6. Kiyohide Sameshima

Japan MIC k.sameshima@soumu.go.jp

7. Nob Nakanishi Japan ICCJ nob-nakanishi@dspr.co.jp

8. Yong Kyu Lee Rep. of Korea

CAU james@cau.ac.kr

9. Hyon-Jun Nah Rep. of Korea

RRA jpapa@msip.go.kr

10. Hyeong-Bae Ahn Rep. of Korea

RRA hban1@msip.go.kr

11. Aisharuddin Nuruddin

Malaysia MCMC aishdin@cmc.gov.my

12. Llew Richards New Zealand IANZ lrichards@ianz.govt.nz

13. Andrew Cutler New Zealand EMCT NZ Ltd.

auklab@ihug.co.nz

14. William Brydon New Zealand MBIE William.Brydon@mbie.govt.nz

15. Cabarros Edgordo Philippines NTC iguycabarros@gmail.com

16. Susana Panes Philippines NTC sopanes@yahoo.com

17. Rachelle Lee Singapore iDA Rachelle_Lee@ida.gov.sg

18. Wen-Fong Tsen Chinese Taipei

NCC wftsen@ncc.gov.tw

19. Nigel Jou Chinese Taipei

TAF nigel_jou@taftw.org.tw

20. Roger Sheng Chinese Taipei

TAF roger@taftw.org.tw

21. Wanji Yang Chinese Taipei

TAF wanjiy@taftw.org.tw

22. Autsanee Thailand MICT autsanee.s@mict.go.th ;

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No NAME ECONOMY Organization E-MAIL Suwannarat autsanee.st@gmail.com

23. George Tannahill USA FCC George.Tannahill@fcc.gov

24. Ramona Saar USA NIST ramona.saar@nit.gov

25. Adam Gouker GUEST APLAC agouker@a2la.org

26. Dinh Hai Dang Vietnam MIC dhdang@mic.gov.vn

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【Attachment 2】

APEC TEL 52 Conformity Assessment and MRA Task Force Meeting

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND

19 October - 20 October 2015

14:00 to 17:30 - Opening Plenary, Monday, 19 October, 2015 9:00 to 12:00 - Working Session, Monday, 19 October, 2015 14:00 to 17:30 - Closing Plenary, Tuesday, 20 October, 2015

The Conformity Assessment and MRA Task Force (CA & MRA TF) meeting will take place in two plenary sessions over two days. We also have a working session scheduled to revise and finalize the MRA guides for industry and CABs. The Market Surveillance Guideline for MRA TF will also be revised in this working session. Inter- sessional work on specific tasks can then be identified at the opening plenary session.

Draft Agenda

1. Welcome and Introduction

1.1 Roundtable Introduction

1.2 Finalization and recap of the report on MRATF meeting held in Boracay, PHILIPPINES on 12 and 13 May, 2015.

1.3 Review draft agenda and contributes for this meeting.

1.4 Discuss tasks of working session

Task1: Finalize MRA guides for industry and CABs

Task2: Revise the Market Surveillance Guideline

2. Economies’ Update on MRA

Economies are invited to give the Task Force an update on MRA developments since the last MRATF Meeting including:

2.1 Schedule for voluntary participation in APEC Tel MRA-CA by member economies

2.2 Technical regulations (Annex I of MRA) by member economies

2.3 Progress of Phase I implementation

2.4 Progress of Phase II implementation

2.5 Update of Progress of MRA-ETR implementation

Contribution presentation

FCC 14 208 Equipment Authorization Order Overview, USA, FCC, George Tannahill

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Mobile App vetting regulation in Chinese Taipei, Chinese Taipei, TAF, Roger Sheng

Standards/technical regulations system for ICT equi3pments in Vietnam. Vietnam, MIC, Dinh Hai Dang

3. Case studies on the use of MRA on Conformity Assessment by industry

This is a standing agenda item seeking industry input into their successes and failures in use of the MRA-CA.

Please advise the TF Chair or Vice-Chair of any potential presenters

4. Task Force projects

4.1 Project E – MRA for Equivalence of Technical Requirements (MRA-ETR)

This is a standing agenda item seeking member economies’ feedback on adoption of MRA-ETR. Although the MRA-ETR implementation guideline has been completed, no member economies officially adopted the MRA-ETR currently. Member economies are encouraged to inform Chair of the status of implementing it or using the concept of it while adopting the international standards.

4.2 Project F – Stock-take of MRA implementation and benefits

This is a standing agenda item seeking all stakeholders’ input on the benefit of implementation of APEC TEL MRA. Member economies are invited to share studies related to the impact of APEC TEL MRAs. We have Korea and Chinese Taipei’s contribution in previous meetings.

Contribution presentation

Conformity Assessment to Trade: WTO liaison, APLAC, Nigel Jou

4.3 Project G – Guidelines for Market Surveillance

This project is to draft market surveillance’s best practice guideline. This guideline is based on Canada’s contribution presented at APEC TEL 41 and the discussion that took place on that subject. In TEL 46, Chair proposed “Guideline for market surveillance” which was discussed in TEL43. The document was intended to provide economies with best practice in terms of market surveillance, with results from survey done earlier. In TEL 48, task force decided to develop Project G to support the regulators in member economies on market surveillance issues. After TEL 49, a renewal survey of the market surveillance activities in APEC economies was performed inter-seasonally. A working session will be dedicated to drafting the market surveillance guideline and discussion of the collected information about the market surveillance guideline.

Working session:

4.3.1 Finalize the market surveillance guideline, MRA TF

Contribution presentation:

Another Approach of Market Surveillance, Japan, ICCJ, Nob Nakanishi

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5. MRA joint Committee

A Joint Committee, consisting of representatives of each economy, will meet at the request of the APEC TEL WG to assist in the effective implementation of the Arrangement. All decisions of the Joint Committee will be made by consensus, unless the economies mutually decide otherwise. It is used to help resolve implementation issues and operation issues and can be very formal or less formal.

5.1 Revise finalize and approve APEC TEL MRA documents In previous TELs, MRA TF completed many guidelines for manufacturers, conformity assessment body, regulators and consumers. These publications provide information on the MRA and procedures for economies to follow to enable them to participate. Currently, official MRA documents are listed below:

MRA for Conformity Assessment MRA Implementation Guide MRA Guide for Manufacturers MRA Guide for Assessment Bodies MRA for Equivalence of Technical Requirements

All delegates can access them in the APEC TEL MRA website: http://www.apec.org/Groups/SOM-Steering-Committee-on-Economic-and-Technical-Cooperation/Working-Groups/Telecommunications-and-Information/APEC_TEL-MRA.aspx

Among these documents, MRA Guide for Manufacturers and MRA Guide for Assessment Bodies were reviewed and revised in previous meeting but have never been published officially. These two revised guides were viewed by MRA TF delegates in TEL 51. But as some delegates could not attend TEL 51, the revised guides were sent to all delegates before this tel. Some of the latest information of each economy are incorrect and need each economy’s update. The final version of these two guides will be sent to LSG for endorsement and Plenary for approval in TEL 52. APEC secretary will publish them officially on APEC TEL MRA website after TEL 52.

5.2 Scope of APEC TEL MRA and Missions of Task force

Originally, the equipment scope of TEL MRA covers equipment subject to telecommunications regulations of each party. It may include radio equipment, telecommunications equipment, and telephone terminal equipment. As the emergence of new technologies, digital convergence and the development of IoT(Internet of Things), more and more equipment were covered in TEL MRA.

For the parameters coverd in TEL MRA, originally they included Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and electrical safety regulations. Other parameters such as SAR may apply accordingly. In TEL 51, MRA TF discussed whether the regulations of new technology such as information security and third-party mobile Apps are covered in the TEL MRA and Task Force reach a consensus. CA& MRA TF believes information security and other technical regulations related to ICT products shall be covered in APEC TEL MRA. As many delegates could not attend the CA& MRA TF in TEL 51, this topic will be recapped to see if there is any objection.

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Economies are asked to advise the TF Chair of any matters they wish to have resolved prior to the TF Meeting.

6. Training

TF participants are invited to identify any training needs relevant to either implementation of the existing MRA on conformity assessment or the new MRA for Equivalence of Technical Requirements (MRA-ETR).

In TEL 51, Indonesia request to have training for CA schemes, technical regulations and testing standards in TEL 52. The CA&MRATF believe it would be necessary to hold training sessions on both MRA-CA and MRA-ETR for member economies in this TEL.

Contribution presentation:

Conformity Assessment models Worldwide, Chinese Taipei, TAF, Roger Sheng

New Zealand system for accreditation, New Zealand, IANZ, Dr Llew Richards,

New Zealand system for CABs, New Zealand, EMC Technologies Ltd, Andrew Cutler

and Andrew Cutler of EMC Technologies Ltd (one of New Zealand’s two main EMC CABs) have confirmed they would like to attend the and each make brief presentations on the New Zealand system for accreditation and CABs.

Please advise the TF Chair or Vice-Chair of any potential presenters

7. Review of projects for TEL approval

Member economies are invited to propose and discuss projects related to the work of the MRATF.

8. Update on the Development of Regional MRAs 8.1 The ASEAN Telecommunications Regulatory Council MRA (ATRC MRA) 8.2 APLAC update and ISO/IEC standards update , APLAC, Adam Gouker

9. Web based information management

Member economies are invited to check whether their MRA web pages can be accessed via the APEC TEL MRA webpage at http://www.apec.org/Groups/SOM-Steering-Committee-on-Economic-and-Technical-Cooperation/Working-Groups/Telecommunications-and-Information/APEC_TEL-MRA.aspx and, if found necessary, provide the correct URL linkages to their websites to the TF Chair.

10. Other business 10.1 Point of contact of each member economy to MRA TF 10.2 Appointment of new MRA Task Force Vice-Chair

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As Mr Jailani Buntar will take over as Chair at the conclusion of TEL 52, the Task Force will have a new Vice-Chair. New vice-Chair will be nominated in CA&MRA TF and appointed at the Heads of Delegation in TEL 52.

11. Next meeting

- APEC TEL 53

12. Adjournment

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【Attachment 3】

Update of MRA Activities and Changes to Technical Regulations

The Updates of MRA Activities and Changes to Technical Regulations of different economies were uploaded to the APEC TEL 52 website in the section of MRA TF.

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【Attachment 4】

Points of contact in APEC TEL CA &MRA TF

The points of contact of each economy in CA & MRA TF are listed below for information sharing and inter-sessional discussion.

No NAME ECONOMY Organization E-MAIL

1. Colin Payne Australia ACMA colin.payne@ACMA.gov.au

2. Jailani BUNTAR Brunei Darussalam

AITI jailani.buntar@aiti.gov.bn

3. Claude Beaudoin Canada IC Claude.Beaudoin@ic.gc.ca

4. Ma Xin China CTTL maxin@caict.ac.cn

5. Kim Lee Hong Kong China

OFCA kimlee@ofca.gov.hk

6. Sofi Soeria Atmadja Indonesia MCIT sofi@postel.go.id

7. Yu Tanaka Japan MIC y5.tanaka@soumu.go.jp

8. Nob Nakanishi Japan JVLATE nob-nakanishi@dspr.co.jp

9. Hyeong-Ban Ann Rep. of Korea

RRA Onean2000@naver.co.kr

10. Edgardo V. CABARIOS

Philippines NTC EgayCABARIOS@gmail.com

11. Edwin LOW Singapore iDA Edwin_kf_low@ida.gov.sg

12. Jr-Chang Shie Chinese Taipei

NCC jcchang@ncc.gov.tw

13. Roger Sheng Chinese Taipei

TAF roger@taftw.org.tw

14. Artprecha Rugsachart

Thailand NBTC artprecha@gmail.com

15. Alexander Lutokhin Russia NIIR 070@niir.ru

16. George Tannahill USA FCC George.tannahill@fcc.gov

17. Ramona Saar USA NIST ramona.saar@nist.gov

18. Dinh Hai Dang Vietnam MIC dhdang@mic.gov.vn

As job rotation, some economies need to designate new contact.

Totally 14 Economies