Invitation to tender / “survey of environment-related developments in Europe”
22 April 2014
Japan Machinery Center for Trade and Investment
1. Objective of the survey
Rising concern for the environment in recent years has led to the formulation of various
environmental policies and regulations in all parts of the world—including those targeting global
warming, energy, hazardous chemicals, recycling and resource circulation—as well as toincreasingly strict approaches by private businesses. Particularly a trend has been seen as
follows, when the European Union implements a particular environmental regulation, the othercountries in the world implement a similar regulation.
Thus, for Japanese companies that engage in global business, ascertaining trends concerning
environmental regulations in the EU market, which far surpass those in the US market, isextremely important and an activity that is essential to prediction of future developments ininternational environmental regulation.
Trends surrounding the environmental regulation of products have a significant impact onmembers of the Japan Machinery Center for Trade and Investment (JMCTI). Accordingly, thissurvey project will seek to regularly gather timely and useful monitoring information on
environmental policy, deliberations concerning product-related environmental regulations, andconditions of enforcement in the EU and major Member States. Gathered data will serve as aresource that will help Japanese companies cope with EU environmental regulations.
2. Survey content(1) Survey content- The survey shall examine environmental policies; interpret and analyze developments
surrounding the establishment of product-related environmental regulations (recycling,energy-savings, chemicals contained in products, etc.); and study approaches by industry,
local enterprises, NGOs, etc., in the European Union (European Commission, EuropeanParliament, Council of the EU, etc.) as well as major Member States (Germany, the United
Kingdom, France, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, etc.).
(2) Survey items and main points- Recycling regulations pertaining to waste electrical and electronic equipment, used batteries,packing materials, end-of-life vehicles, etc.
- Regulations pertaining to chemicals contained in products- Regulations pertaining to energy-savings and energy efficiency- Labeling regulations- Environmental steps taken by administrative authorities, industry, US-affiliated companies,1

-NGOs, etc.
Moves toward international regulation and standards (ISO, IEC, etc.)
Other relevant items(3) Criteria- Applicants shall possess knowledge and know-how necessary to execute the survey.
- Proposal content (Survey Plan) shall be in accordance with the objectives of the survey andhave clearly and concretely described methods.
- Proposal content shall fulfill the objective of the survey and be highly economical.
- The execution framework, execution schedule, details of cost estimation, and other details
shall be clearly presented and be within a scheme that is capable of efficiently executing thesurvey.
4. Conditions of contract- Contract amount: Maximum of 4,000,000 yen (including consumption tax)
- Contract period: From the day of the signature of contract to March 31, 2015
- Items to be submitted:(1) Regular reports to be submitted six times during the year
- mid-June (developments of April and May)- mid-August (developments of June and July)- mid-October (developments of August and September)- mid-December (developments of October and November)- mid-February (developments of December and January)- late March (developments from February up to mid-March)* Reports shall be submitted in electronic form in either Japanese ([40 characters × 40lines] × approx. 60 pages) or English ([45 letters × 50 lines] × approx. 40 pages).
Related materials shall be submitted in electronic form or as hard copy.
5. Qualifications for application
Corporations or individuals who meet all of the following conditions are considered qualified toapply to undertake the survey:- The corporation/individual possesses know-how pertaining to the survey project and has
experience of similar surveys, and has the in-house system necessary to complete thesurvey.
- The corporation/individual has the necessary management foundation and sufficientmanagement capability to smoothly execute the survey.
- The corporation/individual is competent to consent to the content of the contract to bepresented by the Japan Machinery Center for Trade and Investment.
6. Application period
23 April to 30 April, 2014 (Applications must be received by the final day of the application period.)2

7. Application procedure
Please download the application documents (Application Document and Survey Plan) (downloadthe documents in MS Word format by clicking here, and in PDF format by clicking here), fillin the necessary items, and send them by e-mail or post together with the attached materials
described below.
The JMCTI may conduct interviews with applicants concerning the content of their applications.
Please note that no documents that the JMCTI receives shall be returned. (When handlingsubmitted application documents, the JMCTI shall give full consideration to the protection of
personal information and confidentiality in accordance with JMCTI regulations.) No payment
shall be made to cover costs associated with preparation of submitted application documents.
Attached materials
Brief description of the corporation or individual record of past surveys and research,background/history, etc. (if these items are provided on a website, please provide the website’sURL)
8. Results of screening
The JMCTI shall notify all applicants of screening results and post the results on its website by
the end of May 2014
9. Please send application documents and direct inquiries to:
Japan Machinery Center for Trade and Investment
Room 401, Kikai Shinko Bldg., 3-5-8 Shiba Koen, Minato-ku,
Tokyo 105-0011, Japan
Attn: Mr. Hideaki Asada, Environment & Safety GroupE-mail: asada@jmcti.or.jp

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