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FLEETDRIVE Audio Podcast: Hear more from Rhianne now in our latest podcast of AfMA’s Interview Series ANCAP obviously receives funding from different places. How does it receive that funding? And has that changed over the years? ANCAP is an independent consumer information organisation. Going back to our roots we were originally established by the Queensland, New South Wales, Victorian and South Australian governments, as well as the Australian Automobile Association and its motoring club members. Today that membership base has expanded. We now have 23 member organisations and each of them contribute and are integral to the work that ANCAP does. In addition to member organisations, ANCAP also shares common test and rating protocols with Euro NCAP like I mentioned earlier. We’ve got reciprocal arrangements in place where the test results of vehicles that are assessed in European labs are also able to be used for the ratings of vehicles that are supplied to us here in Australia and New Zealand. So if it’s a 5-star Euro NCAP rating and a 5-star ANCAP one, does that mean they are exactly the same? Or are there slight differences there in what those scores mean? ANCAP shares common test and rating protocols with Euro NCAP, and that’s been the case since January 2018. Prior to that, our relationship dates back to 1999 when we were making use of Euro NCAP test results achieved through European testing at that point. Our ANCAP ratings and Euro NCAP ratings are aligned and the only very minor difference between the two programs is the standard of the child restraints that are used in our testing. The beauty of our common protocols is that they encourage the same level of safety to be fitted by the Australasian and European markets. So where vehicle specifications may differ, the specs of the locally supplied models is what we assess and rate here at ANCAP. ISSUE 23 2020 / WWW.AFMA.ORG.AU 11