en.Wedoany.com Reported - DEKRA Shanghai Automotive Lighting Laboratory has obtained witness approval qualification from the Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI), enabling it to provide one-stop services for Chinese automotive lighting and vehicle component manufacturers, covering EU UN ECE certification and Indian ARAI witness certification. This reduces compliance barriers for overseas expansion and facilitates product entry into the European and Indian markets.

Europe and India are major overseas markets with high demand for automotive lighting, governed by UN ECE and CMVR/AIS regulations respectively. Previously, companies had to set up separate sample tooling for each region and conduct independent tests across both locations, leading to lengthy certification cycles, high testing costs, significant rework risks, and cumbersome approval processes due to cross-border sample transportation, dual-site audits, and corrective retesting. With the new witness certification cooperation between DEKRA and ARAI, after completing UN ECE automotive lighting tests and obtaining ECE Emark certification, companies can simultaneously acquire ARAI certification through the ARAI witness verification process, eliminating the need for duplicate testing and sample submission. This one-stop certification model offers five core competitive advantages: dual recognition with a single test, where the same set of samples and tooling meet the access requirements of both markets; comprehensive cost reduction, cutting expenses on cross-border transportation, on-site guidance, retesting, and rework; controlled risk, as a single test aligns with two regional standards, reducing parameter deviations and rework risks; local testing, allowing companies to manage samples and coordinate with engineers nearby; and accelerated approval, streamlining review processes, eliminating cross-site audit cycles, and shortening certification time.

Founded in 1966, ARAI is directly under the Ministry of Heavy Industries of the Indian government and serves as the core authority for formulating motor vehicle access regulations and issuing certifications in India. It has long focused on four key areas: vehicle safety, exhaust emissions, vehicle engineering, and advanced technology research and development. Its certification qualifications are valid across the entire Indian market. DEKRA Shanghai Automotive Lighting Laboratory possesses full-category ECE testing capabilities for automotive lighting, covering high and low beam headlights, turn signals, daytime running lights, fog lights, and more. With the addition of ARAI witness approval, the laboratory has enhanced its cross-border compliance service capabilities for automotive lighting, meeting the needs of Chinese automakers expanding into European and South Asian markets. In the future, DEKRA will continue to collaborate with authoritative automotive certification bodies worldwide, iterating one-stop cross-border compliance solutions to provide automotive lighting and vehicle component manufacturers with a full chain of services, including regulatory interpretation, sample pre-testing, witness certification, and qualification filing.