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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.
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