Invitation to tender / “survey of environment-related developments in Europe”
24 April 2023
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 and climate change, energy, hazardous chemicals, recycling and resource
circulation—as well as to increasingly strict approaches by private businesses.
Under the European Green Deal, which is at the top of the EU's policy priorities, moreproduct-related environmental measures are being developed, such as climate action,
circular economy, sustainable chemicals strategies, sustainable product initiatives and thecohesion of green and digital transitions.
Particularly a trend has been seen as follows, when the European Union implements aparticular environmental regulation, the other countries in the world implement a similarregulation.
Thus, for Japanese companies that engage in global business, ascertaining trends
concerning environmental regulations in the EU market, which far surpass those in the USmarket, is extremely important and an activity that is essential to prediction of future
developments in international 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,
this survey project will seek to regularly gather timely and useful monitoring information
on environmental policy, deliberations concerning product-related environmental
regulations, and conditions of enforcement in the EU and major Member States.
Gathered data will serve as a resource 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 relating
to machinery industry (energy-savings, chemicals contained in products, waste/recycle,sustainability, circular economy, climate change etc.); and study approaches byindustry, local enterprises, NGOs, etc., in the European Union (European Parliament,Council of the EU, European Commission and related agencies such as ECHA, etc.) as
well as major Member States (France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, etc.)
and the United Kingdom.
(2) Survey items and main points- Waste related acts (Batteries Regulation, Packaging Directive, WEEE, ELV Directive, etc.);
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Acts on use of substances in products and Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability (REACH
and RoHS Review);
Circular Economy (Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation and related acts suchas Digital Product Passport, Right to Repair, energy labeling, environmental labellingand claims, Critical Raw Materials, etc.);
European Green Deal and climate change (Carbon border adjustment mechanism,Carbon Foot Print, etc.);
Plastic strategy and related regulations affecting the machinery industry;Moves toward international regulation and standards (ISO, IEC, etc.);
Other relevant items
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
and have 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 otherdetails shall be clearly presented and be within a scheme that is capable of efficiently
executing the survey.

4. Conditions of contract-Contract amount: Maximum of 3,500,000 yen (including consumption tax)
Contract period: From the day of the signature of contract to March 31, 2024
Items to be submitted:(1) Regular reports to be submitted four times during the year
- Middle of June 2023 (developments from April to mid-June 2023)- Middle of September 2023 (developments from mid-June to mid-September2023)- Middle of December 2023 (developments from mid-September tomid-December 2023)- Middle of March 2024 (developments from mid-December until mid-March2024)* Reports shall be submitted in electronic form in either Japanese ([40 characters× 30 lines] × approx. 45 pages) or English ([60 letters × 40 lines] × approx. 30pages). Related materials shall be submitted in electronic form or by
specifying the URL.

5. Qualifications for application
Corporations or individuals who meet all of the following conditions are considered
qualified to apply to undertake the survey:- The corporation/individual possesses know-how pertaining to the survey project andhas experience of similar surveys, and has the in-house system necessary to complete2-the survey.
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
April 24 to May 2, 2023 (Applications must be received by the final day of the applicationperiod.)
7. Application procedure
Please download the application documents (Application Document and Survey Plan)(download the documents in MS Word format by clicking here, and in PDF format byclicking here), fill in the necessary items, and send them by e-mail or post together withthe attached materials described below.
The JMCTI may conduct interviews with applicants concerning the content of theirapplications. Please note that no documents that the JMCTI receives shall be returned.
(When handling submitted application documents, the JMCTI shall give full consideration
to the protection of personal information and confidentiality in accordance with JMCTIregulations.) No payment shall be made to cover costs associated with preparation ofsubmitted application documents.
Attached materials
Brief description of the corporation or individual record of past surveys and research,background/history, draft table of contents for the first report, etc. (if these items areprovided on a website, please provide the website’s URL)
8. Results of screening
The JMCTI shall notify all applicants of screening results and post the results on its website
by the Mid-May 2023.
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. Yoichi Kawai, Environment & Safety GroupE-mail: y-kawai@jmcti.or.jp

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