Chemical Management
- Act on Confirmation, etc. of Release Amounts of Specific Chemical Substances in the Environment and Promotion of Improvements to the Management Thereof (PDF:91.2KB)
(May 30, 2007)
- Results of report on amount of fluorocarbons destroyed pursuant to the Law for Ensuring the Implementation of Recovery and Destruction of Fluorocarbons concerning Specified Products in FY 2005 (Joint press release with the Ministry of the Environment) (PDF:63KB)
Released in Japanese on June 30, 2006 (July 19, 2006)
- Launch of the “Japan Challenge Program” (Program for Gathering and Disseminating Safety Information on Existing Chemical Substances) and opening of applications for sponsors to collect information on safety of high-priority substances (PDF:21KB)
(July 25, 2005)
Outline
Outline of the Japan HPV Challenge Program (A Joint program among the private and the public sectors for collecting and releasing safety information of Japan HPV existing chemical substances.) (PDF:128KB)
(April 2, 2007)
- Measures to Cope with By-product Hexachlorobenzene under the Chemical Substances Control Law

"Report on BAT Levels concerning By-product HCB in TCPA and Solvent Red 135" (November, 2006) (PDF:628KB)
"Report on BAT Levels concerning By-product HCB in Other Pigments Derived from TCPA and Phthalocyanine Pigments" (April, 2007) (PDF:816KB)
- Act on the Evaluation of Chemical Substances and Regulation of Their Manufacture, etc. (April 28, 2005)
Revision of the Cabinet Order of the Act on the Evaluation of Chemical Substances and Regulation of Their Manufacture, etc. (PDF:60KB)
(October, 2007)
- Execution Status of Act on the Evaluation of Chemical Substances and Regulation of Manufacture, etc. (PDF:440KB)
(2006) (July 20, 2007)
- Comments by the Government of Japan on the draft consultation document concerning the new chemical legislation - the REACH system (July 11, 2003)
Comment (Japan) (Word file: 48KB)
Additional questionary (Excel file: 27KB)
- Future Policy Direction in Japan concerning Evaluation and Regulation of Chemical Substances (May 9, 2003)
- Risk Assessment of Endocrine Disrupters (METI) (February, 2002, Revised May, 2003)
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