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Publishing the names of companies that established their Internal Compliance Program (ICP) voluntary and registered them to METI
2 February, 2005
Security Export Control Inspection Office, METI
1. METI has been publishing the names of companies that established their ICP voluntarily,
self-audited them themselves, and registered them to METI for their sufficient security export control complying with the METI’s note “Establishment or revise of an internal compliance program to secure the export control laws and regulations corresponding to the export control aiming at the non-proliferation” (24 Jun., 1994/No.604), on the METI homepage since 31 Oct., 2003.
2. METI has been encouraging exporters to establish and revise an ICP heretofore, however, after implementation of the catch-all controls on weapons of mass destructions in Apr., 2002, the items of the target of the export control were vastly expanded, and most companies have been required to confirm the end-user and end-use of their export, , which makes self-control of each company more important. In addition, the METI’s letter “Circumvention export of items related to weapons and mass destructions” (26 May, 2003) also asks export-relating companies to strengthen internal export control compliance such as a) to strengthen internal export control systems by carefully confirming the end-users/end-uses bearing circumvention exports in mind, and b) to implement internal-review pursuant to the self-export-control system when it is clear that the items are to be sold in Japan, and will be exported afterwards. In these backgrounds METI expects to promote effective export control in each company by publishing the names of companies that established their ICP.
3. For your notice, publishing the company names is conducted based on voluntary establishment of their ICP, self-audit, and register to METI by companies, and shall not give any legal status nor judgment by the Security Export Control Inspection Office. Therefore, METI would like you to understand that we do not treat preferentially in the operation of the export control laws and related regulations based on the fact that a company is published on the homepage.
4. Duration of publication is basically one year, and renews annually, and the names of the companies are added quarterly. If you have an interest, please consult with us.
NOTICE: -- The Security Export Control Inspection Office continually support each company to implement internal export control properly taking the condition of self-control and export activities of each company into account..
Reference: -- See the “Guidance for the Security export control” (Japanese) and the “Company Summary and Self-administration Check List” (Japanese) when you establish an ICP and conduct self-audit of your ICP implementation.
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