China Compulsory Certificate

[2] The CCC mark is required for both Chinese-manufactured and foreign-imported products; the certification process involves the Guobiao standards.

The mandatory products include, among others:[3] Apart from the GB Standard, the implementation rules are the second important component that form the basis of CCC certification.

In view of the security measures taken by China, there was a seemingly high likelihood that they would request the full disclosure of all source codes running on any and all devices, imported or otherwise.

The divulgence of such source codes is of great concern to countries like the U.S., Japan, the EU, and South Korea; all four asked China to reverse this decision and objected to the implementation of the Chinese plan.

Instead of administering broad and stringent encroachments upon the relevant categories of imports (primarily, computer technology), they decided to engage in an alternate regulatory action solely affecting government procurement projects, while simultaneously postponing the enactment of the policy programme to May 1, 2010.