G/TBT/N/JPN/451  
 
18 February 2014  
(14-0999)  Page: 1/3  
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
NOTIFICATION 
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Notifying Member:  JAPAN  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare 
Name and address (including telephon e and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above :    
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [X], 5.7.1 [   ], other:   
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  
1) Powered Air-Purifying Respirator (PAPR) (HS 9020) and  
2) Machines listed in Appended Table 1, 3 or 4 of Industrial Safety and Health Law 
excluding construction lift (machines which are required to undergo manufacturing 
inspection, performance inspection, individual examination or type examination under the 
Law) (HS 6506, 8402, 8403, 8404, 8419, 8426, 8428, 8431, 8462, 8466, 8501, 8504, 8505, 8515, 8517, 8535, 8536, 8537, 8539, 8541, 8543, 8547 and 9020). 
Other headgear, whether or not lined or trimmed. (HS 6506), Steam or other vapour 
generating boilers (other than central heating hot water boilers capable also of producing low pressure steam); super-heated water boile rs. (HS 8402), Central heating boilers other 
than those of heading 84.02. (HS 8403), Auxiliary plant for use with boilers of heading 
84.02 or 84.03 (for example, economisers, super-heaters, soot removers, gas recoverers); condensers for steam or other vapour power units. (HS 8404), Machinery, plant or laboratory equipment, whether or not electric ally heated (excluding furnaces, ovens and 
other equipment of heading 85.14), for the treatment of materials by a process involving a 
change of temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilising, pasteurising, steaming, drying, evaporating, vaporising, condensing or cooling, other than 
machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes; instantaneous or storage water 
heaters, non-electric. (HS 8419), Ships' derricks; cranes, including cable cranes; mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers and works trucks fitted with a crane. (HS 8426), Other 
lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery (for example, lifts, escalators, conveyors, 
teleferics). (HS 8428), Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machinery of headings 84.25 to 84.30. (HS 8431), Machine-tools (including presses) for working metal by forging, hammering or die-stamping; machine-tools (including presses) for working 
metal by bending, folding, straightening, flattening, shearing, pu nching or notching; 
presses for working metal or metal carbides, not specified above. (HS 8462), Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of headings 84.56 to 
84.65, including work or tool holders, self-opening dieheads, dividing heads and other 
special attachments for machine-tools; tool holders for any type of tool for working in the hand. (HS 8466), Electric motors and generators (excluding generating sets). (HS 8501), 
Electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors. (HS 
8504), Electro-magnets; permanent magnets and articles intended to become permanent magnets after magnetization; electro-magnetic or permanent magnet chucks, clamps and similar holding devices; electro-magnetic couplings, clutches and brakes; electro-magnetic 
lifting heads. (HS 8505), Electric (including electrically heated gas), laser or other light or G/TBT/N/JPN/451 
 
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  photon beam, ultrasonic, electron beam, magnetic pulse or plasma arc soldering, brazing 
or welding machines and apparatus, whether or not capable of cutting; electric machines and apparatus for hot spraying of metals or cermet's. (HS 8515), Electrical apparatus for 
line telephony or line telegraphy, including line telephone sets with cordless handsets and 
telecommunication apparatus for current-carrier line systems or for digital line systems; videophones. (HS 8517), Electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical circuits, 
or for making connections to or in electrical circuits (for example, switches, fuses, lightning 
arresters, voltage limiters, surge suppressor s, plugs, junction boxes), for a voltage 
exceeding 1,000 volts. (HS 8535), Electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical 
circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical circuits (for example, switches, relays, 
fuses, surge suppressors, plug s, sockets, lamp-holders, junction boxes), for a voltage not 
exceeding 1,000 volts. (HS 8536), Boards, panels, consoles, desks, cabinets and other bases, equipped with two or more apparatus of heading 85.35 or 85.36, for electric control 
or the distribution of electricity, including those incorporating instruments or apparatus of 
Chapter 90, and numerical control apparatus, other than switching apparatus of heading 85.17. (HS 8537), Electric filament or discharge lamps, including sealed beam lamp units 
and ultra-violet or infra-red lamps; arc-lamps. (HS 8539), Diodes, transistors and similar 
semiconductor devices; photosensitive semiconductor devices, including photovoltaic cells whether or not assembled in modules or made up into panels; light emitting diodes; 
mounted piezo-electric crystals. (HS 8541), Electrical machines and apparatus, having 
individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter. (HS 8543), Insulating fittings for electrical machines, appliances or equipment, being fittings wholly of insulating material apart from any minor components of metal (for example, threaded 
sockets) incorporated during moulding solely for purposes of assembly, other than 
insulators of heading 85.46; electrical conduit tubing and joints therefor, of base metal lined with insulating  material. (HS 8547). 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Overview of 
Amendment of Industrial Safety and Health  Law. (1 pages, in English).     
6. Description of content:  The Industrial Safety and Health Law is to be amended as 
follows: 
1) To add PAPR to the list of machines wh ich shall not be transferred, leased or 
 installed without undergoing type examination, and 
2) To allow foreign bodies to be registered as a body which conducts inspections or 
 examinations required for machines listed in Appended Table 1, 3 or 4 of the Law 
 excluding construction lift. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  The Industrial Safety and Health Law is to be amended in order to ensure 
the safety and health of workers in workplac e by assuring the performance of PAPR, and 
in order to facilitate inspections and examinations of machines by establishing a scheme 
to register foreign inspection or examinat ion bodies. Protection of Human health or 
Safety. 
8. Relevant documents:   The Industrial Safety and Health Law. The amendment is to be 
publicised in "KAMPO" (Official Government Gazette) when adopted. The Construction 
Standard of PAPR. The establishment is to be published in "KAMPO". 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    To be determined. To be determined. 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification G/TBT/N/JPN/451 
 
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  11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresse s, if available of the other body:    
Japan Enquiry Point 
International Trade Division, Economic Affairs Bureau 
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Fax: (+81 3) 5501 8343 
E-mail: enquiry@mofa.go.jp  
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