13th Northeast Asia Standards Cooperation Forum (NEAS Forum)

30 June - 3 July 2014
Gyeongju, Korea

Resolutions
The 13th NEAS Forum was held from the 30th June to 3rd July 2014, Gyeongju, Korea,
which was hosted by KATS and KSA. The NEAS Forum was attended by 121 experts frompublic and private sectors of China (21 participants), Japan (25), and Korea (75).

Acronyms
NEAS Forum- WG- PM
CJK-SITE

North East Asia Standards Cooperation Forum- Working Group (of NEAS Forum)- Project Meeting (of NEAS Forum)
China, Japan, Korea – Standards Cooperation on IT and Electronics

SACCAS
JISC
JSA
KATS
KSA

Standardization Administration of China (Chinese government)
China Association for Standardization (Chinese Secretariat)
Japanese Industrial Standards Committee (Japanese government)
Japanese Standards Association (Japanese Secretariat)
Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (Korean government)
Korean Standards Association (Korean Secretariat)

1. Opening
The Heads of Delegation from governments of the Korea (Mr. Ahn Chongil, KATS), China(Mr. Yin Minghan, SAC), and Japan (Dr. Yasunaga Yuko, JISC) addressed the opening
remarks by reaffirming their support for the successful 13th NEAS Forum to strengthen thetrilateral cooperation amongst China, Japan, and Korea.
2. Country Updates
KATS (Mr. Kim Hongjun), SAC (Mr. Duan Baotong) and JISC (Mr. Konno Takashi) gave
their respective presentations to share information on their recent important standardization1

policies and activities.
3. Report from the CJK-SITE
The Korean Head of Delegation of the CJK-SITE, Dr. Park Sekwang, summarized recent
activities of the CJK-SITE, and emphasized the importance of cooperation between the NEAS
Forum and the CJK-SITE.
The Forum noted that CJK-SITE Plenary meeting was held in parallel with the NEAS
Forum.
4. Ongoing Cooperative Items
KSA(Mr. Ko Sangjin), CAS(Ms. Xia Weijia) and JSA(Mr. Okamoto Yutaka) presented
ongoing cooperative items led by each country to review the progress of cooperative items
since the last meeting. After presentations and interactive discussion, the NEAS Forum agreed
to continue close cooperation on the following twenty items:
4.1. Studying Procedure for more efficient operation of the Forum (C-J-K)
4.2. Reinforcement of information exchanges, such as those on national mirror
committee of ISO/IEC TC/SCs of each country (C-J-K)
4.3. Joint response to the new business of ISO and IEC (C-J-K)
4.4. Accessible Design (J)4.5. Cooperation in ISO/TC 171 (Document management applications) of evaluation andpreservation of 2-byte font design (J)4.6. Test Method for Fibrous Activated Carbon (J)4.7. Standardization of Thermal Conductivity of Thermal Spray Coating Layers inCeramics (K)4.8. Cooperation on the International Standardization of Products for Seniors (K)4.9. Cooperation for Standardization of Eco-friendly Electroplating (K)4.10. Cooperation on Smart Grid amongst three countries including new work item in IECof common interest (C-J-K)
4.11. Information exchanges and cooperation on standardization on Sewer System
Maintenance (J)4.12. Freight container (C-K)
4.13. Information exchanges and cooperation on Graphical Symbols (K)4.14. Standardization cooperation of Printed Circuit Board (C-J-K)
4.15. Information exchanges and cooperation on standardization Nuclear Energy andInstrumentation (K)4.16. Determination of thermal conductivity for thermal barrier coatings (J)4.17. Measurement of Young’s modulus of thermal barrier coating (J)4.18. Common Standardization on Test Method of Photo catalysis (K)4.19. Improving global supply chain efficiency by RTI (Returnable Transport Items)
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standards and guidelines (K)4.20. Design, fabrication, characterization and standardization of 3D digital function
al reference nano-structure (C)The secretariats of the three countries shall identify, if not confirmed yet, and update
contact information for the ongoing cooperative items. The country indicated in theparenthesis is the proposing or responsible country, and the country shall present a status
report on each item in the plenary meeting of the 14th NEAS Forum in 2015.
5. New Cooperative Item Proposals
Nine new cooperative item proposals were considered, and the NEAS Forum adopted thefollowing three items:
5.1 Test Methods for Thermal Conductivity of Electronic Circuit Board for High-Brightness
LEDs Guidelines(J)
5.2 Electrical Scanning Probe Microscopy(K)5.3 Testing Procedure for Deck Equipment of Vessel Intended for Cold Climate Region(K)And, the NEAS Forum noted the following one item as pending approval depending on thevote by Japan.
5.4 Industrialization of Residential Interior Decoration and the Application Technology ofBuilding Component(C) (pending approval with Japanese vote by the end of August2014)
The three Secretariats shall provide the detailed contact information to the proposers of thefour new items by the end of August 2014.
6. WG Reports
Four WG meetings were held as a part of the 13th NEAS Forum as follows:
6.1 WG 7 Report - Standardization cooperation of Printed Circuit Board
Mr. Takahara Kunio, on behalf of the WG 7, reported the activities of WG 7. They
discussed 4 technical items and others.
6.2 Report from WG 9- Common Standardization on Test Method of Photocatalysis
Dr. Lee Taikyu, on behalf of the WG 9, reported the activities of WG 9. They discussed 3technical items and others.
6.3 WG10 Report — Improving global supply chain efficiency by RTI (Returnable Transport3Items) standards and guidelines.
Dr. Kim Jongkyoung, on behalf of the WG 10, reported the activities of WG 10. They
discussed 5 technical items and others.
6.4 WG12 Report - Test methods for fibrous activated carbon
Mr. Uyama Toyoki, on behalf of the WG 12, reported the activities of WG 12. They
discussed 5 technical items and others.
6.5 Approval of reports
The NEAS Forum noted and adopted the four WG reports. The NEAS Forum expressed
its deepest appreciations to WG 7, WG 9, WG 10 and WG 12 for their excellent activities.

7. Next Meeting
China made a proposal to host the 14th NEAS Forum in 2015 in China. Detailed scheduleand venue will be announced later.

8. Adjournment
The NEAS Forum expressed its appreciations to KATS and KSA for their hospitality andoutstanding management of the Forum.

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On behalf of the Chinese Government
Mr. Yin Minghan

On behalf of the Japanese Government
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. Ibi Toshio

On behalf of the Korean Standards
Association
Mr. Chun Jinsu

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