New NAP to be presented to Cabinet next week

By REUTERS | 30 October 2019


KUALA LUMPUR: The National Automotive Policy (NAP) 2019 may be presented to the Cabinet next week for approval to enable it to be launched by end-2019.

Minister of International Trade and Industry Datuk Darell Leiking said today the public would have the chance to go through the NAP after the Cabinet has given its approval.

"What is more important is that work is in progress because we wanted to add a lot of things," he told reporters after launching the Industry4WRD Summit.

The summit was held in conjunction with the one-year implementation of the national policy on Industry 4.0 or Industry4WRD.

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Darell said the draft of the new NAP has been finalised.

"Don't look at the time, look at the content, that is what matters."

Automotive, Robotic and IoT Institute (MARii) chief executive officer Datuk Madani Sahari had in September said NAP will be implemented in three phases till 2030 and will also include efforts to make Malaysia a hybrid and energy-efficient vehicle (EEV) manufacturer.

He said the first phase of NAP is expected to run until 2023-2024.

NAP 2019 will also see MARii shift its EEV focus to the"next-generation vehicle”.

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