Details of Entering into a Memorandum of Cooperation with theChina Association for Standardization (CAS)

1. Overview
On November 11, 2019, President & CEO Toshio Ibi of the Japanese Standards
Association (JSA) and Secretary General Gao Jianzhong of the China Associationfor Standardization (CAS) signed an agreement at the CAS office in Beijing that
promotes mutual cooperation in a wide range of fields related to international
standardization.

2. BackgroundWe are seeing the globalization of economies and societies, the innovations of the 4th
industrial revolution, the arrival of the Internet of Things, and the aging of populations
around the world. As the need for global standards development in new arenas such asservices and social systems increases, and the speed of global change increases, it isbecoming more and more apparent that individual countries have limitations on theirability to respond accordingly. JSA and CAS, the leading organization on
standardization in China, are in full agreement that strengthening collaboration between
leading standardization organizations will be even more important in the future, andhave jointly entered into a cooperative agreement for purposes including: compiling awide range of information related to standardization, strengthening the dissemination ofthe information to stakeholders, and promoting specific cooperation in the developmentof such international standards as those of the ISO/IEC (International Standards
Organization/International Electrotechnical Commission).
JSA, in a continuing effort to construct a system for coordination and cooperation withmajor European standardization organizations, entered into memorandums ofcooperation in 2018 with the British Standards Institution (BSI), the world's largest
standards organization, the German Institute for Standardization (DIN), the German
Commission for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies of DIN and VDE(DKE), and the French Standardization Association (AFNOR). The cooperationagreement with CAS is the latest of these compacts.

3. Rationale
JSA established a system in June 2017 to develop and publish JSA Standards andSpecifications: non-governmental standards that ensure transparency, fairness andobjectivity. Through collaboration with CAS, we expect that cooperation of standards
development not only in Europe but also in Asia will be strengthened; it will be possible

to collaborate in a wide range of fields from non-governmental standards tointernational standards such as the ISO/IEC; and it will be easier to respond specificallyand flexibly to various standardization needs.
JSA, the national center for standardization in Japan, has finalized a cooperationagreement with CAS in continuation of agreements already made with BSI, DIN, DKEand AFNOR. By entering into agreements with major standardization organizations not
only in Europe but also in Asia, we expect that collaboration on global standardization
development will be strengthened, the possible range of solutions will be expanded, andthe various standardization needs of customers will be provided. In addition, we are
currently working on entering into cooperative agreements with other major
standardization organizations around the world.

4. Cooperation Agreement Overview
Collaborative activities described in the cooperation agreement with CAS:
① Exchange of standardization information, activities to promote standardization② Collaboration on international standardization activities, technical research andhuman cooperation