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NRCS Automotive: Ensuring Safety and Compliance for South Africa

This document provides an overview of the mandate, structure, and activities of the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications (NRCS) Automotive Division in South Africa. It discusses the process of applying ECE regulations as compulsory requirements, challenges faced, and the powers of NRCS inspectors. The document also highlights the approval process for automotive components and new/used vehicles, along with contact information for relevant managers.

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NRCS Automotive: Ensuring Safety and Compliance for South Africa

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  1. SOUTH AFRICASignatories to the UNECE1958 and 1998 AgreementsPresented by : Dries van Tonder

  2. CONTENTS • Technical Infrastructure in RSA • NRCS Mandate • Structure Overview • NRCS Business Process • NRCS activities • Powers of NRCS Automotive Inspectorate • NRCS Automotive Overview • History – NRCS/SABS • Process of applying ECE Regulations as Compulsory requirements in RSA • Challenges

  3. NRCS MANDATE NRCS is mandated to Administer compulsory specifications/ technical regulations in the interests of public safety and health or for environmental protection and thus ensuring fair trade. These mandates derives from three primary Acts: • National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications Act • Act 5 of 2008 • Legal Metrology Act • Act 9 of 2014 • Building Regulations and Building Standards Act • Act 103 of 1977 • And for the purpose of the Automotive Division – National Road Traffic Act No 93 of 1996. (Added mandate)

  4. STRUCTURE OVERVIEW NRCS CEO

  5. NRCS ACTIVITIES • Pre-market approval of NRCS regulated products (see later) • Before regulated commodities enter the market, approval granted based on test reports, certificates of conformity. • The NRCS Automotive issues certificates (Letters of Authority, Homologation or Type Approval certificates) • NRCS Automotive conducts Market Surveillance Inspections and POE • Inspectors visit manufactures, importers, builders and retailers to inspect and if needed sample products • Inspections are meant to eradicate non-compliances • POE/Border Control/Container Inspections • Automotive operate same as other areas of NRCS related to profiling etc • Automotive will further also assist SARS and SAPS on inspections. • Sanctions • If non-compliance is proven, enforce corrective action and/or recall and/or return to country of origin and/ or destruction and/or notify the media and public as defined within the NRCS Act No 5 of 2008. Embargos.

  6. POWERS OF AN NRCS INSPECTOR • Enter any premises/structure during reasonable hours suspected of storing, importing, manufacturing or selling a commodity which falls under a compulsory specification/ technical regulation • Visually inspect products to verify compliance • Sanction products if found to be non-compliant • Seize or quarantine non-compliant products • Request any records with regards to imports, manufacture or sale of an article which falls under the scope of a compulsory specification/ technical regulation- this include information on financial matters related to the NRCS activities.

  7. OVERVIEW OF NRCS - AUTOMOTIVE Related to Automotive Components The approval of the products mentioned below are done prior to such products being offered for sale. Hydraulic brake and clutch fluid. Replacement brake lining assemblies. Safety helmets for motorcycles. Child Restraints (baby seats). Replacement light sources for use in motor vehicles. Replacement Headlights for motor vehicles. Replacement secondary lights for motor vehicles. Automotive Safety glass. Pneumatic Tyres for Passenger and Commercial vehicles and their Trailers. Ball type Couplings. Elastomeric Brake rubbers and seals. All the above products except tyres requires an LOA prior to import.

  8. OVERVIEW OF NRCS – AUTOMOTIVE CONTINUE Related to new vehicles and certain used vehicles Approval of Category M,N,O,L and Agricultural Vehicles. (New).All these vehicles must have an LOA prior to entering the country. The approval of vehicles that are in the possession of individuals that have lived outside of the country and is returning to RSA. Specific requirements which has to be clarified with the NRCS Automotive prior to such a vehicle entering the country.All these vehicles must have an LOA prior to entering the country. The importation of vintage and special collectors vehicles. In cases of the importation of these vehicles again the importer has to ensure that they interact with the NRCS prior to such vehicles being imported. All these vehicles must have an LOA prior to entering the country.

  9. Manager Approvals Components – Mr Alex Mkondo. E-mail alex.Mkondo@nrcs.org.za • Manager Approvals Vehicles – Mr Themba Kaula. E-Mail Themba.kaula@nrcs.org.za • Thank You Dries van Tonder Automotive Technical Specialist Dries.vantonder@nrcs.org.za

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