. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/JPN/401 
9 July 2012  
 (12-3662) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Notifying Member:  JAPAN  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)  
Name and address (including telephone 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 applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  All of the residential heat 
pump water heaters using CO 2 as refrigerant, except products equipped with a function to use 
the heat generated by the heat pump for both wa ter heating or heat-reten tion of bath water and 
other heating such as fl oor heating (HS: 84.18). 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Revision to 
Notification of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) for the Act on the 
Rational Use of Energy (1 page, in English)      
6. Description of content:  Revision of the standards of judgement under the Act on the 
Rational Use of Energy, the target fiscal year for meeting the standard, and the standard energy consumption (the energy consumption effi ciency) of the products listed in column 4.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
To promote the rationalization of overall ener gy consumption in Japan through popularization 
of machineries and equipments with high en ergy consumption efficiency, which could 
contribute to cope with the r ecent increase of energy consumption in commercial/residential 
sector, with the global warming problem and so forth.  
8. Relevant documents:    
- The Act on the Rational Use of Energy; 
- This revision is to be publicised in the Official Government Gazette "KAMPO" when 
 adopted; 
- http://www.meti.go.jp/commit tee/summary/0004683/pdf/003_03_01.pdf  (in 
Japanese) 
- http://www.meti.go.jp/commit tee/summary/0004683/003_haifu.html  (in Japanese) G/TBT/N/JPN/401 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    Spring in 2013 
The target fiscal year for meeting the standard: 
FY2017 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from the date of circulation 
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addres ses, if available of the other body:    
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  
And at: (URL of laws before  amendment, in Japanese) 
http://law.e-gov.go.jp/htm ldata/S54/S54HO049.html  
http://law.e-gov.go.jp/htm ldata/S54/S54SE267.html  
http://law.e-gov.go.jp/h tmldata/S54/S54F03801000074.html   
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2012/tbt/JPN/12_2545_00_e.pdf