. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/JPN/159 
22 December 2005 
 (05-6251) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
 
  
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circulat ed in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   JAPAN
 
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Ministry of Land 
Infrastructure and Transport (MLIT) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site 
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):         
− Microwave oven (HS:  8516.50 ); 
− Heavy duty vehicle (HS:  8701, 8702, 8704) (Freight vehicles which are fueled by diesel 
oil with a gross vehicle weight of 3.5 tons  over.  And Passenger vehicles which are 
fueled by diesel oil with a gross vehicle weight of 3.5 tons over and a riding capacity of 
11 persons or more) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Revision to 
Enforcement Ordinance and Enforcement Regu lation for the Law Concerning the Rational 
Use of Energy, Ministerial Ordinance Regard ing Determination of Motor Vehicle Energy 
Efficiency, and Ministerial Notification of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (in 
case of motor vehicles, Ministerial Notificati on of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and 
Industry, and the Ministry of Land Infrastructure and Transport )(2 pages, in English). 
6. Description of content:   Under the Law Concerning the Rational Use of Energy, the 
products listed in 4 above will be designated as "Designated machinery and equipment", and 
the methods of measuring the performance of the products with regard to the amount of 
energy consumption defined as numerical values  (the energy consumption efficiency), as 
well as the standards for judgement by manuf acturers or importers, will be established. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
To promote rationalization of use of energy through prevalence of machinery and equipment with high energy consumption effi ciency, in order to cope with the recent 
increase of energy consumption in commercial/residential and transport sector, global 
warming problem and so on. G/TBT/N/JPN/159 
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8. Relevant documents:   The basic law is the Law Concerning the Rational Use of Energy.  
This revision will appear in "KAMPO" (Offi cial Government Gazette) when adopted. 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    March 2006 
April 2006 (a grace period for labelling:  about 
one year) 
10. Final date for comments:   60 days from date of circulation 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses,  if available of the other body:   
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry 
Energy Efficiency and Conservation Division 1-3-1 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku  
Tokyo 100-8986 JAPAN 
 
Telephone: (+81) 3 3501 9726 
Facsimile: (+81) 3 3580 8439   
E-mail address: shouene-pub@meti.go.jp