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Global New Car Assessment Programme
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Mission statement:
(i) Support New Car Assessment Programmes (NCAPs) in emerging markets by offering technical support guidance and quality assurance. (ii) Provide a cooperation platform for NCAPs and like organisations around the world to share best practice, to further exchange information, and to promote the use of consumer information to encourage the manufacture of safer cars across the global automotive market. (iii) Promote vehicle safety technologies with proven effectiveness and encourage their accelerated use across the globe by increasing consumer awareness and where appropriate by supporting mandatory application. (iv) Support training initiatives in vehicle safety regulatory and rating systems to promote policy making capacity particularly in emerging markets. (v) Promote the use of safer vehicles and technologies by fleet managers in both the public and private sector. (vi) Recognise achievement in vehicle safety, innovation in safety related technologies, and products through a global awards scheme. (vii) Support the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the target to halve road deaths and injuries by 2020, and the full implementation of the Global Plan for the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety especially the recommended activities for vehicles. (viii) Support improvements in vehicle emissions reduction and fuel efficiency and evidence based consumer information to inform consumers about the environmental performance of motor vehicles.
Year established:
2011
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