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Rules of Origin and Other Aspects of

Implementation of Tariff Commitments

• Developing a Regional Approach to Monitoring Utilisation of AANZFTA Tariff Preferences

• Development of Training Modules and Training for Trainers on AANZFTA Rules of Origin

• Enhancing SMEs Awareness and Participation in AANZFTA — Capacity Building for Cambodia, Lao PDR and Myanmar

• Transposition of AANZFTA Tariff Reduction Schedules and Product Specific Rules from Harmonized System Codes (HS) 2012 into HS 2017

• Training on Tariff and Trade Data Analysis for Government Officials

• Chemicals and Plastics Production Process Rules for the AANZFTA Rules of Origin

• Collecting Data on the Usage of the AANZFTA Crtificate of Origin Form

• Streamlining of Certificate of Origin Application and Issuance Procedures

• AANZFTA Self-Certification of Origin

• Policy Dialogue on Future Transposition of Harmonised System of the AANZFTA Tariff Reduction Schedules and Rules of Origin Product Specific Rules

• Joint Session to Discuss Implementation of the First Protocol to Amend the AANZFTA Agreement

Sanitary & Phytosanitary

Measures

• ASEAN Import Health Standard

• ASEAN Regional Diagnostic Network

• ASEAN Regional Diagnostic Network - Phase 2

• Sanitary and Phytosanitary Regulatory Cooperation in Dairy

Standards, Technical Regulation and

Conformity Assessment Procedures

• STRACAP Work Plan Implementation Program (Stream 1): Good Regulatory Practice

• AANZFTA Parties' Participation in the APEC Workshop on Harmonised Electrical Equipment Regulatory Risk Assessment Tools

• Best Practices on International Standards Development

• Priority Setting for AANZFTA Standards, Technical Regulations and Conformity Assessment Procedures

Customs

• Review of Non-Tariff Measures

• Advance Rulings on Rules of Origin, Tariff Nomenclature and Customs Valuation

• Capacity Building on Risk Management

Services

• Referencing National Qualifications Framework to the ASEAN Qualifications Reference Framework

• Enhancing ASEAN Logistics and Transport Services: Policy, Institutional and Regulatory Review

• Case Study on the Benefits of Services Liberalisation

• Education and Health Services Policy Review

• Capacity Building for National Qualifications Frameworks - Phases I, II, and III

• Capacity Building on Collection and Management of Statistics of International Trade in Services - Phases I and II

• Capacity Building in Data Compilation of Statistics of International Trade in Services through Pilot Surveys in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar.

• Technical Assistance: ASEAN Logistics ort Services Sector

• Enhancing Domestic Regulations in Services

Investment

• Investment Policy Review of Cambodia

• Investment Policy Review of Lao PDR

• Investment Policy Review of Myanmar

• Investment Policy Review of Viet Nam

• Two-Annex Approach in the Scheduling of Reservation List under the Investment Chapter

• Investment Policy Review for Malaysia

• Investment Policy Review of the Philippines

• Investment Commitments in International Agreements

• Investment Disputes, Resolution, and Prevention

• Non-Mode 3 Investment in Services

• Investment Trends, Issues, and Prospects in AANZFTA

• Increasing Foreign Investment Flows

• Investment Facilitation and Technical Assistance for Newer ASEAN Member States

Intellectual Property

• Regional Patent Examination Training

• Ideal Training Model for Patent Examiners

• Intellectual Property Public Education and Awareness Phase II

• Accession to the Madrid Protocol Phase III

• AANZFTA Intellectual Property Crime Conference

• Workshop on Accession to the Madrid Protocol

• IP Training for Small to Medium-Sized Enterprises

• Accession to the Madrid Protocol - Phases I and II

• IP Public Education and Awareness - Community of Practice and Strategy

• Policy workshops on IP and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge, and Traditional Cultural Expressions

Competition

• Competition Law Implementation Program - Phase II

• 7th ASEAN Competition Conference

• Workshops on Competition Policy and Law

• Competition Law Enforcement Capability through Investigation Skills Training

• Competition Regulatory Experts Secondment to Malaysia and Viet Nam

• 1st to 6th ASEAN Competition Conference

• Competition Law Implementation Program Phase I

AANZFTA Support Unit

• Rapid Response: Training on AANZFTA Rules of Origin for Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Philippines

• Rapid Response: Training on Trade and Tariff Analysis for Cambodia and Indonesia

• Rapid Response: Training on Transposition of AANZFTA Tariff Reduction Schedules from Harmonised System 2007 to 2012 for Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Viet Nam

• AANZFTA Intellectual Property Expert

• Project Design and Proposal Development for Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and the ASEAN Secretariat

Goods

Ongoing Legend:

Completed

Assisting Countries to Maximise the Benefits of the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement

PROGRAM BREAKDOWN 2010 – 2017 As of May 2017

83%

17%

Breakdown of AECSP Disbursement as of March 2017

Economic Cooperation

Work Program

AANZFTA Support

Unit

Economic Cooperation Support Program (AECSP) At A Glance

Total Projects across 8 Economic Cooperation Work Program (ECWP) Components

Number of ECWP Projects by Initiating Party as of May 2017

ASEAN Member States & ASEAN Secretariat 27

ASEAN Member States

Australia & New Zealand 05 Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Myanmar

AANZFTA Committee/Sub-Committee 15 ASEAN Secretariat

43 Successfully Completed as of May 2017

Budget Allocation by Component (as of May 2017)

ROO, 12%

SPS, 14%

STRACAP, 2%

Customs, 2%

Investment, 17%

Intellectual Property, 17%

Services, 15%

Competition, 21%

Goods,

Rules of Origin and Other Aspects of Implementation of

Tariff Commitments

Lines of

AANZFTA product specific rules of origin agreed in effect of the transposition of Harmonised Codes from 2012 to 2017.

- Languages that the AANZFTA

Rules of Origin training modules have been translated into: Indonesian, Laotian, Thai, Vietnamese, Khmer and Myanmar.

- ASEAN Member States using

the AANZFTA Rules of Origin training modules in their respective in-house training programs for customs officials.

- Number of frontline

actors, end-users, and exporters in Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam who received training from government officials trained under the AANZFTA ROO training of trainers activiy.

Sanitary & Phytosanitary Measures

- ASEAN Member States

using pest status information from the ASEAN Regional Diagnostic Network project in protecting its key agricultural exports from pests and in gaining new market access.

- ASEAN agricultural

products, namely fresh salacca/salak fruit, drinking coconut, and dragon fruit, able to enter the New Zealand market owing to assistance from the ASEAN Import Health Standards project.


who received microscopy diagnostic equipment to bolster their diagnostic capacity for plant pests and diseases affecting trade.

- Number of

officials from ASEAN Member States trained on diagnosing pests and diseases belonging to 20 of the 30 priority groups identified by ASEAN National Plant Protection Organisations.

- Number of

farmers reached by local seminars on biological control conducted by the Department of Agriculture of an ASEAN Member State. The seminars were based on knowledge obtained under the ASEAN Regional Diagnostic Network project.


that have developed short-term work plans on risk-based regulation based on international sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) standards and guidelines in dairy processing under the SPS Regulatory Cooperation in Dairy project.

Services

- The year the ASEAN

Qualifications Reference Framework Governance and Structure Document was endorsed by the ASEAN Labour, Education, and Economic Ministers.

- ASEAN Member States have

expressed interest in referencing their national qualification frameworks to the ASEAN Qualifications Reference Framework.

- ASEAN Member States where

pilot surveys on the compilation of statistics on international trade in services were completed. AECSP support provided sound methodological templates for countries' planning, development, and conduct of future full-scale surveys to collect trade in services statistics.

Investment

- comprehensive Investment

Policy Reviews conducted for Cambodia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, and Viet Nam. These reviews serve as effective tools for policy considerations on investment climate issues, stimulating inter-governmental agency and public-private dialogues.

- ASEAN Member States who had

used recommendations from OECD Investment Policy Reviews in reducing domestic restrictions on foreign investment and in eliminating minimum capital requirements for investors under a new draft Investment Law.


- ASEAN Member States, namely

Cambodia and Lao PDR, who successfully acceded to the Madrid Protocol in 2015 and 2016, respectively with contributions from the AECSP.

- ASEAN Member States, namely

Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Viet Nam, who received information technology training in 2016 to enhance their trademark registration systems under the Madrid Protocol.

- Intellectual Property Offices

from ASEAN Member States participating in the Regional Patent Examination Training Program (e.g. Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam).

- Total expected number of

patent examiners from ASEAN Member States who will graduate from the Regional Patent Examination Training Program by June 2018. This cohort will be competent in conducting patent examinations based on Patent Cooperation Treaty standards.

- The number of Regional Patent

Examination Training (RPET) graduates in an ASEAN Member State who are now training and mentoring new patent examiners. These RPET graduates also developed training content and curriculum to inform their institution's in-house training program for newly hired patent examiners.

- An Ideal Patent

Examination Training Curriculum was created as an open source electronic Learning Management System for storing training materials. This will enable ASEAN Intellectual Property Offices to conduct standard online training and to create, store, and update training materials.

Competition

- ASEAN Member States who have

met the ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint target of having a national competition policy and law in place by December 2015, with support from AECSP.

- ASEAN Member State receiving

technical advice from AECSP in drafting and finalising its national competition law.

- ASEAN Member States who are

receiving technical advice from AECSP in establishing their respective competition commissions.

- Officials from ASEAN Member

States that were seconded to either Australia or New Zealand to learn and exchange information on competition-related issues.

- Number of officials from

Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, and Viet Nam who received cartel investigation skills training in 2016.

- Number of people from

competition agencies, the academe, law firms, and the private sector reached by the ASEAN Competition Conferences from 2013 to 2017.


- Estimated number of

regional and in-country Economic Cooperation Work Program events provided with direct implementation support from 2013 to March 2017.

- Total number of AANZFTA

FTA Joint Committee and Ad Hoc Economic Cooperation Sub-Committee meetings supported and serviced from 2010 to March 2017.

- Estimated number of

officials from Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Philippines, and Viet Nam who received rapid response training on the AANZFTA Rules of Origin, on Trade and Tariff Analysis, and on Transposition of AANZFTA Tariff Reduction Schedules from HS 2007 to 2012.

Enhanced promotion and public outreach of AECSP through the AANZFTA website, media releases, and AECSP factsheets. Quarterly updates are also provided to the broader ASEAN Economic Department since early-2017.

Established an integrated database sytem to effectively monitor utlization of Contributions and and evaluate implementation progress of each ECWP component against AECSP objectives.

Faciliated technical assistance and capacity building on monitoring and evaluation for key AECSP flagship projects and on project design and implementation to Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and the ASEAN Secretariat.

AANZFTA Intellectual Property (IP) Expert contracted to support the work of the AANZFTA IP Committee on economic cooperation activities (2012 to 2015).

Economic Cooperation Support Program (AECSP) At A Glance KEY RESULTS 2010 – 2017 As of May 2017

Goods


Key Activities (August 2016 to August 2017)

Rules of Origin and Other Aspects of Implementation of

Tariff Commitments

September 2016: In-‐‑country training on transposition of AANZFTA tariff reduction schedules from Harmonised System (HS) Code 2012 to HS 2017 was conducted in Viet Nam.

August 2017: In-‐‑country training on transposition of AANZFTA tariff reduction schedules from HS 2012 to HS 2017 and in-‐‑country seminar on data collection and processing on the utilisation of tariff preferences organised for Lao PDR and Myanmar.

Sanitary & Phytosanitary Measures

August 2016: Activities under the ASEAN Regional Diagnostic Network project were completed. Key activities in 2016 included pest diagnostic workshops across participating ASEAN Member States on identification of weed seeds, identification of families of pest diptera, and on DNA extraction and barcoding.

Standards, Technical Regulations and Conformity Assessment Procedures

May 2017: A workshop on good regulatory practice in the food and beverage products areas under the STRACAP Work Plan Implementation Program held in Auckland, New Zealand.

Customs January 2017: In-‐‑country interviews were conducted with the private sector in Indonesia and Thailand for the review of AANZFTA non-‐‑tariff measures.

Services

February 2017: The ASEAN Qualifications Reference Framework (AQRF) Committee held its first meeting and technical workshop to discuss work plans and priorities for national qualification referencing process for the next two years.

July 2017: The 2nd AQRF Committee Meeting held in Manila, Philippines alongside a second technical workshop on quality assurance in the referencing process to AQRF and experience sharing on comparative analysis to Regional Qualifications Framework.

Investment July 2017: Launching of the OECD Investment Policy Review for Lao PDR.


September 2016: Attachment training of trademark examiners from Cambodia and Myanmar to the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines was conducted to facilitate technical exchanges on Madrid Protocol Operations.

October to November 2016: Information Technology training on Madrid Protocol operations were conducted for Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Viet Nam to enhance their trademark registration systems. An IP expert mission was also held in Myanmar to support the development of its trademark law.

Competition Policy and Law

August 2016: Cartel investigation skills training for Malaysia and Viet Nam were conducted under the Competition Law Implementation Program (CLIP) Phase II. A workshop on enforcement strategies and concepts was also conducted in Viet Nam to share international best practice in institutional design of a competition authority and competition law.

October 2016: ASEAN competition officials were seconded to Australia and New Zealand to receive on-‐‑the-‐‑job experience and training at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. Cartel investigation skills training were also provided to Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, and Viet Nam.

February 2017: A regional workshop on competition economics in practice was held to explore how competition agencies could apply economic analysis in competition matters. ACCC also provided an expert to work with the Ministry of Industry and Commerce in Lao PDR on institutional considerations in establishing the Lao Competition Commission and Secretariat.

March 2017: The 7th ASEAN Competition Conference “ASEAN@50 – Managing Change in a Competitive ASEAN ” was held in Malaysia attended by participants from competition agencies, the academe, law firms, and the private sector. The conference discussed issues such as: emerging technologies; advocacy to micro, small, and medium-‐‑sized enterprises; and a regional cooperation framework on competition.

May 2017: ACCC officers commenced short-‐‑term placements to work with Philippine Competition Commission officials on investigation and with the Ministry of Commerce and CamControl staff in Cambodia on the country’s draft competition law and a project framework for drafting the explanatory note to accompany the law. An evidence and interview skills workshop was also held for competition officials from Indonesia and the Philippines.

June 2017: A regional workshop on leniency programs under CLIP held in Auckland, New Zealand to promote greater understanding and sharing of experience across AANZFTA Parties, including guidance and recommended practices for designing and applying leniency programs. An investigation masterclass workshop was also held in Ho Chi Minh City for competition officials from Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, and Viet Nam.

July 2017: Secondment of ASEAN competition officials to the ACCC. A module 1 investigation skills training was also scheduled for Thailand.


February 2017: A sub-‐‑regional capacity building workshop on project design and proposal development for Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and the ASEAN Secretariat was held for representatives from the various AANZFTA Committees and Sub-‐‑ Committees. The workshop provided participants with tools and guidance on key principles and best practices in project proposal development and project management.

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