Bangkok, Thailand, 25 August 2014

1. ITU Regional Standardization Forum for Asia Pacific Region (Bangkok, Thailand, 25 August 2014) Collaboration program with Brunei, Observation & Suggestion Jongbong Park, Director, TTA of Korea jongbong@tta.or.kr Bangkok, Thailand, 25 August 2014

2. Discussion Topic

3. Main idea for Discussion • There is no right answer for policy and system • Every 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

4. 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

5. National Standard Committee under Ministry of Industry and Primary Resources has structured a well defined platform No committee for communications Brunei Specific : Need to harmonize with NSC

6. AITI is required to participate in the NSC activities as a secretariat and/or participants (e.g) Singapore case Brunei Specific : Need to harmonize with NSC MICA MTI SPRING Singapore IDA Support 11 Standards Committee TSAC Information Technology Chemical … … MICA : Ministry of Information, Communication and Arts MTI : Ministry of Trade and Industry IDA : Infocomm. Development Authority TSAC : Telecommunication Standards Advisory Committee WG 1~N Special WG

7. Need a forum to coordinate views in int’l activities Not only ITU but also others, like APT Brunei Specific : Need for Working Platform Funding • Responsible Agency Secretariat National Advisory Committee for ITU (R) (D) National Advisory Committee for ITU-T NSG 17 NSG 2 NSG 3  NSG: National Study Group

8. Functions Brunei Specific : Need for Working Platform • 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

9. 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 regulation Working platform to develop/review the standard composed of the stakeholders is needed Type of participation can be optional, writing a draft? Or only for review Brunei Specific : Participation from stakeholders

10. On the 2nd stage, make regulation (mandatory standards) be minimum Deregulation and privatization are global trend Working platform is also needed for development / review of a voluntary standard Experts who are involved in activity for mandatory standards will be also participating in voluntary standardization Nature of a mandatory and voluntary standard is different, however, attribute of activities in developing/reviewing is similar Brunei Specific : Participation from stakeholders

11. 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

12. Brunei Specific : Conformance Assessment • It has its own specific CA system • Requiring 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

13. 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)

14. Future Plan • 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