The guidance of special procedure to submit the notification of imported quantity under CSCL

As a rule, manufacturers and importers in Japan are legally obliged to submit annual notifications of manufactured and/or imported quantities of the previous fiscal year of substantially all chemical substances by themselves under CSCL.

However, if a notifier (manufacturers and importers in Japan) has extreme difficulties in identifying a certain chemical substance or its concentration rate in mixture (e.g. because an exporter claims the chemical identity as confidential), the notifier is currently allowed to notify the annual volume of General Chemical Substances jointly with a chemical supplier etc. (hereinafter “chemical supplier(s)”), for example, the foreign exporter or manufacturer of the chemical substances under the consent of METI. (This notification method is not acceptable for Specified Chemical Substances, Monitoring Chemical Substances, and Priority Assessment Chemical Substances.)

This procedure does not intend to exempt the notifier from its legal obligations as a notifier. Therefore this procedure may not be used without the consent of the notifier.