Invitation to tender / “survey of environment-related developments in Europe”
2 June 2017
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 wellas to increasingly strict approaches by private businesses. Particularly a trend has been
seen as follows, when the European Union implements a particular environmental
regulation, the other countries 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, 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 (recycling,energy-savings, chemicals contained in products, 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 (Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Denmark,Sweden, Netherlands, etc.).
(2) Survey items and main points- Recycling regulations pertaining to waste electrical and electronic equipment, usedbatteries, packing materials, end-of-life vehicles, etc.
- Regulations pertaining to chemicals- containing products;- Regulations pertaining to energy-savings and energy efficiency;- Labeling regulations;13.

Implementation of the circular economy package;
Brexit, implications for the businesses;
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 efficientlyexecuting 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 30, 2018
Items to be submitted:(1) Regular reports to be submitted six times during the year
- Early June 2017 (developments of April and May 2017)- Late July 2017(developments of June and July 2017)- Late September 2017 (developments of August and September 2017)- Late November 2017 (developments of October and November 2017)- Late January 2018 (developments of December 2017 and January 2018)- Late March 2018 (developments from February until mid-March 2018)* 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 as hardcopy.

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 complete
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.

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6. Application period
2 June to 8 June, 2017 (Applications must be received by the final day of the application
period.)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 beginning of June 2017
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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