The Hong Kong Council for Testing
and Certification (HKCTC), Hong Kong
Accreditation Service (HKAS) and Trade and Industry Department (TID) co-organized a seminar named “Latest
Development of Testing and Certification under CEPA” held on 31st Jan 2018. Two liberalization measures related to
certification were introduced under the CEPA Agreement on Economic and
Technical Cooperation signed in June 2017.
The Implementation Guide for the Articles Relating to Certification and
Accreditation in the CEPA Agreement on Trade in Services promulgated in Sep
2017 included new liberalization measures in the areas of China Compulsory
Certification (CCC) and factory inspection.
In the beginning, Prof. Albert Yu (Chairman, HKCTC) gave a welcoming
remark. He said CEPA related to T&C industry to open T&C market in
China since 2010. More and more agreements were signed to extend the scope so
as to achieve one certificate and one test in Mainland China.
Mr. Chen Haiyang (陳海洋巡視員) (Director General, Department
for International Cooperation, Certification and Accreditation Administration
of the People’s Republic of China (CNCA)) gave an opening speech. He said the part related testing and
certification in CEPA could help the industry development and enhance made in
China quality as well as convenience for trade.
Then all guests took a group
photo.
(Left: Mr. KW Chen (HKAS), Ms.
Bella SW Ho (Executive Administrator, HKAS), Ms. Jane Lee (Secretary-General
(Test & Certification), HKCTC). Mr. Liu Xin (CQC), Mr. Chen Haiyang (CNCA),
Prof. Albert Yu (Chairman, HKCTC),M. Wang Yali
(CNCA) and TID representative)
Mr. Wang Yali (王亞力先生) (Department for Certification Supervision,
CNCA) was the first speaker and his topic named “New Liberalization Measures
introduced under the Implementation Guide for Articles Relating to the
Certification and Accreditation of the CEPA Agreement on Trade in
Services. He firstly introduced the
history of the CEPA arrangement since 2003.
Until 2010, the supplementary VII was signed and Hong Kong T&C
industry was allowed to join CCC task in Mainland China under limited
scope. Then the supplementary VIII
(2011), IX (2012) and X (2013) were also signed to enhance the scope of CCC for
Hong Kong T&C industry.
Mr. Wang said the CEPA Agreement on Trade in Services was signed on 27th Nov 2015 and the guideline for implementation was issued on 17th Sep 2017 that guideline included implementation scope, qualification of certification body and monitoring requirement, factory inspector qualification requirement, procedures and surveillance management, etc.
According to the implementation
procedure, Hong Kong Certification Body and CCC specified Certification Body
cooperation under business agreement.
Hong Kong CB inspector needed to be nominated to apply the CCAA
qualification for CCC product certification.
Mr. Liu Xin (劉鑫副處長) (Deputy Director, Department for International
Cooperation, China Quality Certification Centre (CQC)) was the second speaker
and his presentation entitled “CQC and HKSAR organization cooperation
experience sharing”. Mr. Liu briefed
some cooperation with different T&C industries in Hong Kong such as HKSTC (Jun
2012), CDICHK (Sep 2012), Intertek (Feb 2013) and UL(HK) (Jan 2015), etc.
The following diagram showed the
cooperation content under CCC scope.
The following diagram
demonstrated the voluntary certification area cooperation. Voluntary product certifications are
separated into two categories and they were government promoted and market
driven (CBs implemented). Those
certification included “energy saving certification”, “water saving
certification”, “new energy certification” and “low-carbon certification”, “China
RoHS” and “Organic product certification”.
Lastly, Mr. Liu mentioned their
next steps were to continue the voluntary certification service and
cooperation, focused on CCC factory inspector training and registration, as
well as, extended service to international level followed One Belt One Road.
During the tea break, I met
T&C friends and took a photo for memory.
(Left: I, Mr. KW Chen, Dr. John
Ho and Mr. SL Mak)
I also met Mr. Wilman Chan
(HKQAA).
Mr. Wang Yali was also the third
speaker and his topic named “Articles Relating to Testing and Certification in
the CEPA Agreement on Economic and Technical Cooperation”. He said the articles signed on 28th
Jun 2017 was included OBOR establishment, regional economic cooperation such as
finance, culture and trade, etc.
In the article clause 23 of the
chapter 6, they promoted laboratories in Hong Kong to join National Mutual
agreement system such as IECEE/CB scheme. (Remark: Operated by the IEC System
of Conformity Assessment Schemes for Electrotechical Equipment and Components
(IECEE), the IECEE CB Scheme is an international system for mutual acceptance
of test reports and certificates dealing with the safety of electrical and
electronic components, equipment and products.)
It was also studied if Hong Kong
CBs established in Mainland China and fulfilled CCC specified CB requirement. The application to be CCC specified CB
condition was shown as following diagram. 
Mr. KW Chen (Senior Accreditation
Officer, HKAS) was the last speaker and his topic was “Procedures and
Requirements for Accrediting Hong Kong’s Testing Organizations to the China
Compulsory Certification (CCC) System”.
Firstly, Mr. Chen briefed the
background and summarized the scope from CEPA supplementary agreements as
follows table. After that he briefed the
HKAS requirements on CCC.
Then he mentioned the application
procedure and continuous surveillance in the following diagrams.
At the end, Mr. Chen said 11
laboratories got the HKAS CCC accreditation but only 6 of them were registered
in the CCC list.
Q&A
I asked two questions. First one was how long to wait for CCC product certification based on only 25 CCC specified CBs in Mainland China. Mr. Liu said they had service pledge within a specific time. For some IT or innovation product, time to market was very important. Those product could be issued CCC certificate first and then audit within 3 months. My second question was that could Hong Kong product identified Hong Kong CB for CCC certificate so as to reduce the communication time. It seems not possible in this time because the application should be submitted to CCC specified CBs in Mainland China first.
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