Resolutions ofthe 12th Northeast Asia Standards Cooperation Forum
1-4 July 2013, Kitakyushu, Japan

A. General

The 12th Northeast Asia Standards Cooperation Forum (hereinafter referredto as “The Forum”), hosted by JISC (Japanese Industrial StandardsCommittee) and JSA (Japanese Standards Association), was held during 1-4
July 2013 in Kitakyushu, Japan. The Forum was attended by 81 delegates
representing government agencies in charge of standardization, private
standards organizations and experts in this field from China, Japan and Korea.

B. Cooperative Works
1. The Opening of the Forum
Heads of Delegation of the three countries’ governments addressed theopening remarks and expressed their hope that the Forum be successful andto strengthen the cooperation amongst the three countries.
Mayor of City of Kitakyushu addressed welcome remark.
2. Presentation of Country Updates of Standardization
SAC, JISC and KATS made presentations and shared information on thecurrent status of their standardization policies and activities.
3. The remarks of CJK-SITE
Heads of Delegation of CJK-SITE addressed the opening remarks andexpressed importance of cooperation between the CJK-SITE and the Forum.
4. Report on the Ongoing Cooperative Items and Proposal of New
Cooperative Items
CAS, JSA and KSA made presentations of ongoing cooperative items led byeach country to review the progress of cooperative items since the last1

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Presentations of four new cooperative items adopted in the Forum weremade by proposers. The Forum recognized the progress of ongoing and newcooperative items.
4.1 Ongoing cooperative Items
The Forum agreed to continue close cooperation on the following items. The
contact information, if not yet well-confirmed, shall be provided via respective
secretariats of the three countries to the leader of each item as soon aspossible. And the parentheses shall make a status report on each item to the13th Forum in 2014:
4.1.1. Studying Procedure for more efficient operation of the Forum (C-J-K)
4.1.2. Reinforcement of information exchanges, such as those on national
mirror committee of ISO/IEC TC/SCs of each country (C-J-K)
4.1.3. Joint response to the new business of ISO and IEC (C-J-K)
4.1.4. Accessible Design (J)4.1.5. Cooperation in ISO/TC 171 (Document management applications)of evaluation and preservation of 2-byte font design (J)4.1.6. Test Method for Fibrous Activated Carbon (J)4.1.7. Standardization of Thermal Conductivity of Thermal Spray CoatingLayers in Ceramics (K)4.1.8. Cooperation on the International Standardization of Products forSeniors (K)4.1.9. Cooperation for Standardization of Eco-friendly Electroplating (K)4.1.10. Cooperation on Smart Grid amongst three countries including newwork item in IEC of common interest (C-J-K)
4.1.11. Information exchanges and cooperation on standardization onSewer System Maintenance (J)4.1.12. Freight container (C-K)
4.1.13. Information exchanges and cooperation on Graphical Symbols (K)4.1.14. Standardization cooperation of Printed Circuit Board (C-J-K)
4.1.15. Information exchanges and cooperation on standardization
Nuclear Energy and Instrumentation (K)4.1.16. Determination of thermal conductivity for thermal barrier coatings(J)2

4.2. New Cooperative Items
The Forum agreed to cooperate in the following new items and requested
the respective secretariats to provide the detailed contact information to theproposers.
- Measurement of Young’s modulus of thermal barrier coating (Japan)- Common Standardization on Test Method of Photo catalysis (Korea)- Improving global supply chain efficiency by RTI (Returnable TransportItems) standards and guidelines (Korea)- Design, fabrication, characterization and standardization of 3D digital
functional reference nano-structure (China)
4.3 Completed items
The Forum agreed that cooperation on the following items were successfullycompleted in the Forum :The Forum resolved to disband the following items:- Information Exchanges on the Activities of ISO/TC 164(Mechanical Testingof Metals)(Japan)- Information exchanges and cooperation on Reclaimed Wastewater Use inUrban Areas (Japan)- Standardization cooperation of Smart City Infrastructure (Japan)- Cooperation in ISO/TC130/WG12 (Post press of Printing) (Japan)
5. Report on Working Group Activities
The Forum held two WG meetings as follows:
5.1 Reports from WG 1-Freight Container
Mr. Park Andres, on behalf of the WG 1 - Freight Container, reported theresults of activities of WG 1. They discussed development of ISO standard
developed in ISO/TC122, TC104,and potential three new work item proposals.
5.2 Reports from WG 7-Printed Circuit Board
Mr. Takahara Kunio, on behalf of the WG 7- Printed Circuit Board, reported
the activities of WG 7. They discussed 5 technical items and others.
5.3 Approval of reports
The reports from these two WGs were approved by the Forum.
The Forum expressed its deepest appreciations to WG 1 and WG 7 for their
excellent activities.
36. Cooperation between the CJK-SITE and the Forum
The Forum noted that CJK-SITE Plenary meeting was held in parallel at thesame time and venue. CJK-SITE introduced its activities, and its four Ad-Hocconveners reported current status to the Forum.

.C. Next Forum

Korea made a proposal to host the 13th Forum in 2014 in Korea. Detailed
schedule and venue will be announced later.

D. Closing of the Forum

The Forum expressed its appreciations to Japanese Industrial Standards
Committee (JISC) and Japanese Standards Association (JSA) for their
hospitality and well-organized management of the Forum.

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On behalf of the Chinese Government
Mr. Yin Minghan

On behalf of the Japanese Government
Dr./Mr. Yasunaga Yuko

On behalf of the Korean Government
Mr. Ahn Chong il

On behalf of the China Association forStandardization
Mr. Gao Jianzhong

On behalf of the Japanese Standards
Association
Mr. Ueno Yoichi

On behalf of the Korean Standards
Association
Mr. Kim Chang Ryoung

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