The meaning of international harmonization

- Resolve the technical trade barrier between vehicle trade countries through international harmonization of the vehicle safety standard
- Grow nation��s competitiveness due to a reduction of vehicle development cost and time for manufacturers

Background of international harmonization

- Each country in the world establishes and manages the safety standard that is suitable with own country state for securing vehicle safety
- Occur the technical trade barrier on promotion of trade liberalization because of increasing amount of vehicle trade
- Solve the problems and in order to secure own vehicle industrial competitiveness, international harmonization of the safety standard is global trend

Need of international harmonization

- Solve the barrier elements of increasing of vehicle development cost and global trade caused by different safety standard between countries
- Need to promote international harmonization of national dimension in order to improve the global level of vehicle safety.

Effect

- Protect customers due to improvement of vehicle safety - Protect life and property of citizens with safe vehicle operation
- Reinforce export competitiveness
- Improve safety through international harmonization on safety standard, reciprocal approval and reinforce export competitiveness due to cost reduction and a reduction of the term of development
- Reinforce status as the world automobile main product country
- Reinforce status of nation, which actively participates to establish and manage the global standard as a member of WP29
- Solve international trade friction
- Prevent trade friction with international harmonization of safety standard