. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/JPN/304 
25 June 2009  
 (09-3125) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  JAPAN
  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry 
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):  Electronic appliances
printed wiring boards, appliance inlet, the au tomatic neck oscillating, copper-iron type 
ballasts of luminaires, capacitor for electric  equipment used for air-conditioner, washing 
machines, refrigerators and freezers, power of refrigerators and freezer s, washing machines, 
dryers for bathroom, diodes for input control elec tric room heaters, floor heating, heaters with 
outdoor camera protecting from condensation and freezing, magnet-type couplers, and 
electric wire tube.  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Ministerial Ordinance 
under the Electrical Appliances and Materials Law (the Law)  (4 pages, in English).  
6. Description of content:   
(A) Revision of technical requirements on a basis of accident case etc.  
1. Smoke and ignition accident m easures to printed wiring boards; 
2. Smoke and ignition accident measures to sold ering part of appliance inlet (Entry of power 
supply connector);  
3. Ignition accident measures to internal wiring breakage in the automati c oscillating electric 
room heaters; 
4. Smoke and ignition accide nt measures to copper-iro n ballasts of luminaries; 
5. Smoke and ignition accident measures to capacitor for electric equipment used for air-
conditioners, washing machines, a nd refrigerators and freezers; 
6. Smoke and ignition accident measures to plugs  with not sufficient tracking proof index of 
refrigerators and freezers; 
7. Finger losing accident meas ures to  the dewatering bin of  electric washing machine; 
8. Burnout accident measures to dryers for bathrooms; G/TBT/N/JPN/304 
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  9. Burnout accident measures to diodes for input  control of electric room heaters (halogen 
heaters); 
10. Control measures to VOC emissi on from electric room heaters; 
11. Scorching accident meas ures to floor heating. 
(B) Accommodation of new technology 
1. Adoption of test method that considers the ac tual conditions for use of heaters with outdoor 
camera protecting from condensation and freezing; 
2. Adoption of test method that considers the characteristic for the magnet-type appliance 
couplers. 
(C) Alignment  of the technical criteria to the latest JIS  
1. The electric wire tube (material, the strength test etc.)  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Human safety  
8. Relevant documents:   This revision will appear in  “KAMPO” (Official Government 
Gazette) when adopted.   
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    September 2009 
1 year after the promulgation (except (A) 7; limited to business-u se models, and (C)) 
After 1 April 2011 ((A) 7; limited business-use 
models) 
3 months after the promulgation ((C)) 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from date of  circulation    
11. Text available from: National enquiry point [  ], or address, telephone and fax numbers, 
e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the 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 83 44  Fax: + (81 3) 5501 83 43  E-mail: enquiry@mofa.go.jp