G/TBT/N/JPN/494  
 
6 July 2015  
(15-3472)  Page: 1/2  
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 Economy, Trade and Industry 
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 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applic able, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Gas Equipment and 
Appliances, Liquefied Petroleum Gas Equipment and Appliances  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Revision of the 
"Ministerial Ordinance for Technical Requirements of Gas Equipment and Appliances" and the 
"Ministerial Ordinance for Technical Requirements of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Equipment and Appliances" (2 pages, in English). 
6. Description of content:  
1.  Revision of the Ordinances (i.e. abolishing detailed technical requirements for each 
designated product and stipulating necessary  safety performances which are uniformly 
required through all the designated products) 
2.  Revision of the circular notices for interpretations of the Ordinances in order to show 
exemplified specification standards satisfying the necessary safety performances stipulated 
in the revised Ordinances (The exemplifie d standards are basically identical to the 
technical requirements shown in the current Ordinances)  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: 
 In order to improve protection for human safety and to utilize public standards for more prompt and flexible response  to technological advance. 
8. Relevant documents:   
Gas Business Act: 
http://www.japaneselawtranslation.go. jp/law/detail_main?id=39&vm=4&re=  
Act on the Securing of Safety and the Optimization of Transaction of Liquefied Petroleum 
Gas: http://law.e-gov.go.jp/htm ldata/S42/S42HO149.html , in Japanese 
Cabinet Order for Enforcement of the Gas Business Act: 
http://law.e-gov.go.jp/htm ldata/S29/S29SE068.html , in Japanese 
Cabinet Order for Enforcement of the Act on the Securing of Safety and the Optimization of 
Transaction of Liquefied Petroleum Gas:  G/TBT/N/JPN/494 
 
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  http://law.e-gov.go.jp/htm ldata/S43/S43SE014.html , in Japanse 
Draft Ordinance for revision of the Ministeria l Ordinance for Technical Requirements of Gas 
Equipment and Appliances (comparison table) (80 pages, in Japanese): 
http://search.e-gov.go.jp/servlet/PcmFileDownload?seqNo=0000129886  
Draft Ordinance for revision of the Ministerial Ordinance for Technical Requirements of 
Liquefied Petroleum Gas Equipment and Appliances (comparison table) (142 pages, in 
Japanese): 
http://search.e-gov.go.jp/servlet/PcmFileDownload?seqNo=0000129890  
Draft Operation and Interpretation of the Gas Business Act (86 pages, in Japanese): 
http://search.e-gov.go.jp/servlet/PcmFileDownload?seqNo=0000129887  
Draft Operation and Interpretation of the Act on the Securing of Safety and the 
Optimization of Transaction of Liquefied Pe troleum Gas and Related Cabinet Orders and 
Ministerial Ordinances (155 pages, in Japanese): 
http://search.e-gov.go.jp/servlet/PcmFileDownload?seqNo=0000129892  
9. Proposed date of adoption: 1 October 2015 
Proposed date of entry into force: 1 April 2016 
10. Final date for comments: 60 days from date of notification 
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [ X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:   
Standards Information Service 
International Trade Division Economic Affairs Bureau Ministry of Foreign Affairs 
2-2-1 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku 
Tokyo 100-8919, Japan  Tel: + (81) 3 5501 8344  
Fax: + (81) 3 5501 8343  
E-mail: enquiry@mofa.go.jp  
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