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2.2 Details agreed by all countries<br />
The session began with a report from the ASEAN Secretariat, outl<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g positive feedback from<br />
AHSOM with regard to the pilot study result<strong>in</strong>g from the third session of EAMS and NSIC<br />
development <strong>in</strong> CLM as part of the ERIA Capacity Build<strong>in</strong>g <strong>Project</strong>.<br />
(1) Approval of EAMIC Ver.1.0<br />
The ma<strong>in</strong> aim of the session was to obta<strong>in</strong> approval from all member countries with regard to the<br />
draft version of an official EAMIC classification, compiled primarily by the countries <strong>in</strong>volved <strong>in</strong><br />
the pilot study (pilot study countries).<br />
Dur<strong>in</strong>g the session, the EAMS Secretariat provided a summary of the pilot study carried out last year<br />
and described the process of complet<strong>in</strong>g the draft version. Act<strong>in</strong>g on behalf of the pilot study<br />
countries, Ms. Jirawan Boonperm, Deputy Secretary General of the Thai National Statistical Office,<br />
then spoke about the process and significance of compil<strong>in</strong>g a common <strong>in</strong>dustrial classification across<br />
all ASEAN+3 countries and thanked METI <strong>for</strong> its support <strong>in</strong> compil<strong>in</strong>g the EAMIC and ECMAT.<br />
This was followed by <strong>in</strong>dividual reports from pilot study countries Indonesia, the Philipp<strong>in</strong>es and<br />
Thailand, outl<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g issues faced whilst convert<strong>in</strong>g manufactur<strong>in</strong>g data from their respective national<br />
classifications to four-digit level EAMIC. Vietnam, which is also a pilot study country and is the<br />
only member country to have already compiled a national classification compliant with ISIC Rev. 4<br />
VSIC2007), then gave a report on the experience of produc<strong>in</strong>g an EAMIC conversion table.