INGENIEUR
expended to include CPC 8673 – on top of 8672;
the MRA will be seen as inclusive and nondiscriminating ~ stakeholders in all AMS will then
have a level playing field and will be prepared to
compete.
Besides revisiting the MRA on Engineering
Services to expand its scope and coverage,
AMS should set about negotiating other sector
specific engineering and construction type MRA,
for example the industry proposed Electrical
Engineering Works MRA (E2WMRA).
To realise this additional MRA, for example;
besides the Engineering Team being dealt with in
the ASEAN MRA on Engineering Services, the MRA
will have to deal with the substantive equivalence
for the certification and/or licensing of skilled or
competent tradesmen, operators and/or testers
working in the regulated electricity/power supply
industry and related energy sub sectors. These
can either be employed in project delivery teams;
or as skilled and competent operators and
maintenance personnel of electrical networks and
facilities of all voltages, capacities and types.
In the context of TPPA, MRA on Engineering
Services (carried out on either bilateral or plural
lateral basis, or multi lateral even) should, at
on the onset cater to both CPC 8672 & 8673;
and APEC Engineer in the grade of Professional
Engineer authorised for cross border mobility – the
entry level of which is the WA. Because TPPA is
the starter of the larger FTAAP (being foot-printed
by APEC centre for ASEAN); it should be the
aspiration of stakeholders within the prospective
economic grouping to adopt the APEC E&E MRA
and to reproduce an E2WMRA equivalent in TPPA/
FTAAP.
ACRONYMS
ACCSQ
ACPECC
AEM
APEC
BEM
CCS
CIE
Conclusion
CPC
In the context of the AEC, for any AMS to gain
a “First-mover advantage” in ASEAN/AEC (post
2015) when the 1-G ASEAN MRA on Engineering
Services (specifically for CPC 8672 only) will be
finally operationalised:
The PRA for Professional Engineering
●●
Services (of the 10 respective AMS),
should promote domestically and at both
the ACPECC/CCS; the expansion of scope
of the MRA to also include CPC 8673.
To introduce the other two grades of ESPs
●●
to complete the Engineering Team, such
that WA will be the benchmark to measure
the entry level for Engineers on route
to becoming ACPE (SA for Engineering
Technologists; and DA for Technicians).
and
Move to promote the cross-border mobility
●●
of all grades of Engineering Services
Professionals (ESPs) that will encourage
inclusiveness and trade.
DA
EPCC
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GATS
IEA
IEC
JSC
JV
NTB
NTM
PMC
PRA
SA
SEOM
TBT
TPP
WA
WIP
WTO
ASEAN Coordinating Committee on
Standards & Quality
ASEAN Chartered Professional Engineer
Coordinating Committee
ASEAN Economic Ministers’ Meeting.
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation.
Board of Engineers Malaysia.
Coordinating Committee on Services.
French Acronym for: International
Commission on Illumination.
Central Product Classification (in UN/
WTO).
Dublin Accord
Engineering, Procurement, Construction
& Commissioning.
Government to Government.
General Agreement on Trade in Services.
International Engineering Alliance/
Agreements.
International Electrotechnical
Commission
Joint Sectoral Committee
Joint Venture
Non-Technical Barrier
Non-Technical Measure
Programme or Project Management
Consultancy/Consultant
Profession Regulatory Authority.
Sydney Accord
Senior Economic Officers’ Meeting.
Technical Barrier to Trade.
Trans Pacific Partnership.
Washington Accord
Work in Progress.
World Trade Organisation.