Eco Mark Product Category No.107“Printing Paper Version3.6”
Certification Criteria―Applicable Scope―
Printing paper.
Excludes drawing papers included in the “writing and art papers” category
designated in the “Paper and Pulp Statistics Annual Report” by the Ministryof International Trade and Industry.

Established: May 1, 2009
Last revised: March 15, 2024
Expiration date: April 30, 2026

Japan Environment Association
Eco Mark Office

NOTE: This document is a translation of the criteria written in Japanese. In the eventof dispute, the original document should be taken as authoritative.

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Eco Mark Product Category No.107“Printing Paper Version3.6” Certification Criteria
Japan Environment Association
Eco Mark Office
1. Purpose of Establishing Certification Criteria
Annual production of printing paper in Japan in 2007 totaled some 9.97 million
tons. Printing paper is widely used for books, leaflets and many other applications.
The scam of falsely reporting the content ratio of waste paper pulp (in the problem
which started with New Year greeting postcards made from recycled paper, it was foundthat for office paper or communication paper, etc. included in Eco Mark ProductCategories, the waste paper pulp was falsely mixed at the rate lower than the standard
waste paper pulp content ratio of the Eco Mark), which was revealed in January 2008,
developed into the major social problem. It confused a number of people including
printers or consumers who had promoted separate collection of waste papers, etc. In
order to regain trust in the Eco Mark as third party authentication, and cope with thescam of the content ratio of waste paper pulp, the Japan Environment Association
conducted site visits to paper manufacturing plants and sampling analysis, etc., andreleased results thereof. At the same time, on the basis of the review made by “theExploratory Committee on Measures to Prevent Recurrence of Deception of Eco Mark
Environment”, which was established to take actions to strengthen the Eco Mark
System and its operation, the Association revised Certification Criteria Version2 in an
attempt to build the inquiry and confirmation system of production sites by exercisingcomplete control and specifying manufacturing plants/plant control managers, etc.,
thus enhancing the certification screening. In this review of the Certification Criteria
Version3, it made a study to regain trust of consumers, etc. in the Eco Mark and recycled
paper and not to discourage their efforts to recycle waste paper, clarified the definitionof the content ratio of waste paper pulp, etc., and newly drew up requirements forhandling of waste sheets and the mixture rate, so that any similar problem can beprevented.
In this product category, as a review of Certification Criteria of No.107 “Printing
Paper Version 2”, use of waste paper is continuously promoted, and information paperthat is environment conscious in aspects of raw material, manufacturing, recycling,
disposal, etc. is featured.

2. Applicable Scope
Printing paper. Excludes drawing papers included in the “writing and art papers”
category designated in the “Paper and Pulp Statistics Annual Report” by the Ministryof International Trade and Industry.

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3. Terminology
Printing paper

Paper manufactured for printing such as books, magazines,
etc. and for writing such as notebooks, etc.
Uncoated paper
Office paper with no white pigmentation applied to its
surfaces.
Light-weight
Office paper with less than 12g of white pigmentation percoated paper
square meter applied to both surfaces.
Coated paper
Office paper with 15g-40g of white pigmentation per square
meter applied to both surfaces to enhance printability.
Waste paper
Collected post-consumer waste paper and pre-consumer waste
paper.
Post-consumer
Used paper generated from stores, offices and households andwaste paper
containing those to be used as a raw material for paper by
paper manufacturers (including those that are shipped as
articles and returned after passing through the distribution
chain).
Pre-consumer
Paper generated from the working process following the paper
waste paper
making process of base paper, and used as a raw material by
paper manufacturers.
However, the following shall not be treated as waste paper:
paper which is generated if processing is performed in a factoryor workplace that uses paper as a raw material, such as paper
processing factories, paper products factories, or printing andbookbinding plants of a paper manufacturer (including an
associated company such as a subsidiary, affiliated company,
etc. of said paper manufacturer) or if said paper manufacturer
has other contractor to conduct processing throughcommissioning of the product before its shipment, and which
is used by said paper manufacturer as a raw material for paper
without being shipped as articles. (If paper leaves said paper
manufacturer, etc. and is distributed by way of a third party, it
shall be treated as waste paper, excluding a case in whichwaste sheet is intentionally treated as waste paper.)Content ratio of Weight percentage of waste paper pulp in the total pulp
waste paper pulp contained in the product. Indicated as (waste paperpulp)/(virgin pulp + waste paper pulp) x 100 (%). Pulp
containing 10% moisture is used to measure the weight. In
addition, waste sheets shall not be included in the
denominator and numerator, respectively, of the calculating
formula of waste paper pulp content ratio.
Waste sheet
Waste paper shall fall under any of the following:- Those generated in the paper making process, and directlyreturned to the paper making process to be used as a raw
material (so-called “circulating waste sheet”. Wet broke anddry broke)- Those stored in a paper making factory or operator and used
as a raw material (so-called “stocked waste sheets”)- Those stipulated by the conditional clause in the definition of
the pre-consumer waste paper described above.
Paper“PAPER (142)” listed in the Medium Category of the Japan
ManufacturerStandard Industrial Classification (The Ministry of Internal
Affairs and Communications Public Notice No. 175 of March
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Subsidiary,
affiliate company,
andassociatedcompany
Controlled
standard value
Brightness
Fluorescent
whitening agent
Prescription
constituents
Prohibitedmaterials
Basis weight
Pulp procured
based on raw
material
procurement forsustainability

Procurement
PolicyReused/wood

UnusedWaste wood

Constructionwaste woodThinnedwood,

23, 2009), and “Paper (1421)”, “Paperboard (1422)”, “Machinemade Japanese style paper (1423)” and “Hand-made Japanesestyle paper (1424)” in the Small Category.
Those defined in each section of Article 8 of “Ordinance on
Terminology, Forms and Preparation Methods of Financial
Statements, etc.” based on the stipulation of Article 193 of the
Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (Act No. 25 of 1948).
Value which refers to a value specified in a written technicalstandard (quality standard), etc. and controlled in a
manufacturing plant.
Degree of whiteness of pulp or paper according to ISO
whiteness degree (diffuse blue reflectance) defined in JIS
P8148.
An agent that fluoresces under UV light and visually enhances
the whiteness of paper.
Components intentionally added with the purpose of providing
specific characteristics to the product. Impurities that
inevitably enter during the manufacturing process are
excluded.
Those materials defined as prohibited materials in the “Waste
paper Quality Standard” established by the Paper Recycling
Promotion Center (Incorporated Foundation)
The value described as grams per square meter of a single sheetof paper and board (JISP0001:Paper, board and pulp –Vocabulary)This refers to any of the following:a. Pulp procured based on procurement of timbers produced fromforests that respect environmental advantage and social
advantage, from the standpoint of cyclical/sustainable use offorest resources, such as efforts to maintain various functions
that forests possess, protect forests against deterioration, andprevent reduction of forest area
b. Pulp procured based on procurement of reused/unused
timbers, which leads to effective utilization of resources
A company’s procurement policy or what conforms thereto,which is released to the external on a home page, etc. However,in the case of an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturing:
manufacturing of a brand product of other company) product, if
raw materials of the product are separately managed, aprocurement policy for the raw materials of the product may be
applied.
Indicates the followings: thinned wood, waste wood,construction waste wood, and less useful wood and waste plant
fiber
Used wood (used packaging material, etc.), remainder material
generated in wood processing plants (shavings generated inplywood and lumber plants, etc.), and wood and woodenmaterials such as thinned branches, bark, etc.
Wood and wooden materials disposed as waste in construction
work such as dismantling of buildings, construction of newbuildings, building extensions, renovation, and construction
related to other work.
Thinned wood or bamboo
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etc.
Thinned wood

Wood cut in the operation to cut down forests depending on
density of trees to promote growth of remaining trees, inforests in the process of cultivation, by following the business
operation and management rule established appropriately
based on the laws or ordinances on forests. (From “Guideline
for Checking Thinned Wood Chip” of Forest Agency (February2009))
Less useful wood Abandoned lumber in the forest, shrubs, tree roots, woodobtained from lumber damaged by disease, pests, disasters,
bent or small diameter logs, etc.
In addition, this does not include low quality wood (thoseusually used as raw materials for paper making although theycannot be used for lumber or chipwood) from native forests orplantation forests, in raw materials for paper making,excluding the above.
Waste plant fiber Fiber made from agricultural residue generated in harvesting
and manufacturing process of crop
ForestMechanism for a third party organization to evaluate/certify a
Certification
forest management level of a forest operator based on the
Systemstandard defined by an independent forest certification
organization. (From “Guideline for Verification on Legality
and Sustainability of Wood and Products” of Forest Agency(February 15, 2006)
Credit System
System that assumes certified forest wood/thinned wood, etc.
are equally used in individual products, based on usedamounts of certified forest wood/thinned wood, etc. and otherraw materials that were used in entire products manufactured
for a certain period of time, irrespective of whether they are
actually mixed in the individual products (From “Basic Policy
for the Promotion of Procurement of Eco-Friendly Goods andServices”, February 2014).
Controlled wood Wood that is different from forest certified wood, but does not
pulp
fall under categories disallowed by the forest certification
system, is traded only between certified organizations, andwhose eligibility has been verified by a third-party
certification body refers to pulp made from verified wood.

4. Certification Criteria and Certification Procedure
4-1. Environmental Criteria and Certification Procedure(1) For content ratio of waste paper pulp, pulp from forest certified wood, thinned
wood pulp, controlled wood pulp, pulp procured based on raw material procurement
for sustainability, brightness, and coating amount of both sides, the overall
evaluation value of uncoated paper totally evaluated by using the calculation formulain Table 1-1 and that of coated paper totally evaluated by using the calculation
formula in Table 1-2 shall be 80 or higher. In addition, pulp other than waste paper
pulp, pulp from forest certified wood, thinned wood pulp, controlled wood pulp andpulp procured based on raw material procurement for sustainability shall not be used
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as a raw material.
Table 1-1

Calculation Formula for Uncoated Paper

Item

Evaluation
Range

Computational Expression of
Evaluation Value

Range
of
Evaluation
ValuesContent ratio of waste 60～100%
paper pulp

Content ratio of waste paper
pulp

60～100Content ratio of pulp 0～40%
from forest certified wood

0～40

Content ratio of thinned
wood pulp(Content ratio of pulp fromforest certified wood +content ratio of thinned wood
pulp)Content
ratio
controlled wood pulp

0.75 × content ratio
controlled wood pulp

of

0～30

Content ratio of Pulp 0～40%
procured based on raw
material procurement forsustainability

0.5 × content ratio of Pulp
procured based on raw
material procurement forsustainability

0～20

Brightness((0.7×content ratio of waste
paper pulp) + (0.9 × content
ratio of pulp other than waste
paper pulp)－Brightness

0～15

Total Evaluation Value

Total Value of Added Points
Shown Above

80 or
higherof 0～40%* Brightness does not apply to colored printing paper or fancy paper (including finequality of colored paper and general colored paper used colorant)
Table 1-2

Calculation Formula for Coated Paper

Item

Evaluation
Range

Computational Expression of
Evaluation Value

Range
of
Evaluation
ValuesContent ratio of waste 60～100%
paper pulp

Content ratio of waste paper
pulp－1060～100Content ratio of certified
forest wood pulp

(Content ratio of certified
forest wood pulp + Content
ratio of thinned wood pulp)

0～40

0.75 × content ratio
controlled wood pulp

of

0～30

Content ratio of Pulp 0～40%
procured based on raw
material procurement forsustainability

0.5 × Content ratio of Pulp
procured based on raw
material procurement forsustainability

0～20

Coated Amount of Both

0 < Both Side Coated Amount

0～15

0～40%

Content ratio of thinned
wood pulp
Content
ratio
controlled wood pulpof 0～40%

0～30 g/㎡

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Sides

Total Evaluation Value≤ 10→15
10 < Both Side
Amount ≤ 20 →10

Coated20 < Both Side
Amount ≤ 30 → 5

CoatedTotal Value of Added Points
Shown Above

80 or
higher[Certification Procedure of waste paper pulp]
A paper quality certificate issued by a paper manufacturer who manufacturesbase paper, which indicates the content ratio of waste paper pulp (a specificminimum numerical value to be guaranteed), and includes items 1) and 2) below,
shall be submitted.
1) Thorough management at a manufacturing plant (by specifying the content
ratio of waste paper pulp of Eco Mark products in a written technicalstandard (quality standard), etc.)
2) Clear indication of names of those who are in charge of manufacturing or
quality control of Eco Mark products at a manufacturing plant (hereinafterreferred to as a person in charge of Eco Mark products)
In addition, “Checklist for Verification System of Percentage of Waste Paper
Pulp” (April 2, 2008: Japan Paper Association) or a document, etc. in accordance
therewith and related to result of an internal audit on the content rate of waste
paper pulp of a paper manufacturer, and a sample (10 sheets of A-4 paper) shallbe submitted.
In addition, the paper quality certificate and the document, etc. related to resultof an internal audit on the content rate of waste paper pulp shall be submitted
every year after a use contract is concluded.
[Certification Procedure of certified forest wood pulp and thinned wood pulp]
Use of certified forest wood pulp and thinned wood pulp shall conform to “Guideline
for Operation of Credit System for Certified Forest Wood/Thinned Wood” in the basic
policy on promotion of procurement of eco-friendly goods in February 2009, and theyshall be operated under the credit system.
For certified forest wood pulp, a certificate that a plant has been certified, based ona management table of the procurement results (quantities, content rate) of certified
forest wood to the procured amount of virgin pulp raw materials in the plant for about
last one year and amount and content ratio to be credited as wood pulp to be mixed incertified forest paper and Eco Mark products, and CoC (Chain of Custody) certification
system, shall be submitted. However, if an Eco Mark product is certified forest paper,
this does not apply.
For thinned wood pulp, a certificate according to “Guideline for Checking Thinned
Wood Chip” prepared by Forest Agency (February 2009) and a management table of the
procurement result (quantities, content ratio) of thinned wood to the procured amountof virgin pulp raw materials in the plant for about last one year, in particular, theamount and content ratio of wood pulp to be credited as those mixed into Eco Markproducts, shall be submitted.

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In addition, the management table of the credited certified forest wood pulp andthinned wood pulp shall be submitted every year after a use contract is concluded.
[Certification Procedure of Controlled wood pulp]
A certificate that a plant has been certified under the CoC (Chain of Custody) of theforest certification system. In addition, a certificate (e.g., audit results) to prove thatthe pulp is traded only between certified organizations, and whose eligibility has beenverified by a third-party certification body shall be submitted.
[Certification Procedure of pulp procured based on raw material procurement forsustainability]
For pulp procured based on raw material procurement aimed for sustainability, it
shall be procured based on “Content (Guideline) to be Described in Procurement Policy”
of Table 2 and based on “Reused/Unused Wood”, and a total amount of the procurement
shall be 90% or higher of the entire procurement amount. In addition, for procurementof raw materials conforming to Table 2, the system for tracing back to a wood supplierby chaining of appropriate separate management, etc. or traceability shall have been
established.
Table 2. Standpoints of Environmental and Social Advantage Related to Forests
Must (Items that Must be Implemented) and Should (Items Implementation of Whichis Desirable)
Classification

Content to be described in a procurement policy(guideline)*

1.
A Prohibition of procurement from forests withEnvironmental high protection value
Advantage
B Prohibition of procurement of wood from native
Relatedto forests cut down on a large scale to convert them
Forests
to plantation or other land utilization.
C Prohibition of procurement of geneticallyengineered wood safety of which has not yet been
ensuredD Consideration to water and soil protection inforest districts
2. Social
Advantage
Related toForests

E Respect to rights of land owners/users
F Consideration to workers’ health and safety
G Prohibition of procurement from a region wherea serious social dispute exists
H Consideration to local residents

Purpose(StandardofMontreal Process)Conservationof
biodiversity

Category
Must
Must

MaintenanceofHealthandEnergy of forestry
ecosystem
Protection
andmaintenanceofsoil and water
resources
Maintenance andpromotionofsocial/economic
benefits
Legal,
institutional, andeconomic
framework

Must

Should

Must
Must
Must
Should* “Content (Guideline) to be Described in Procurement Policy” shall be included in the actual
procurement policy, in accordance with the intent of this description. In addition, the texts inthe supplementary description in explanation shall be referred.

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For the pulp procured based on raw material procurement for sustainability, thecontent ratio confirmed with any of 1) to 4) described below shall be submitted to certify
conformance to “Content (Guideline) to be Described in Procurement Policy” of Table 2,
and the confirmed content ratio shall be reported every year after a use contract of Eco
Mark is concluded.
Note, however, that conformance to “Content (Guideline) to be Described in
Procurement Policy” of Table 2 can also be certified if a total amount of procurement
based on two or more items of A to D in Classification 1 of Table 1 and one or more itemof E to H in Classification 2, and procurement related to “Reused/Unused Wood” shallbe 90% or higher of the amount of entire procurement in a plant. In this case, adocument explaining the progress in formulation of the procurement policy, etc. shallbe separately submitted every two years after a use contract of Eco Mark is concluded.
Whether the contract can be renewed shall be determined on the basis of evaluation of
the progress.
To confirm Table 2, accumulated data (breakdown of the confirmation method) shallbe submitted. In addition, any explanatory material on the traceability system(material explaining the mechanism for tracing a country of origin, forest
administrative area, kind of tree, etc. of cut wood) shall be submitted.
1) Wood is the forest certified wood whose conformance to Appendix is obvious
from CoC (Chain of Custody) Certification System (submission of a list
carrying the certification number, etc.);
2) A copy of certificate issued by a local official organization has been obtained;
3) A certificate of conformance (or a sales contract according thereto, etc.) has
been obtained from a tree butcher or forest administrator;
4) Conformance is confirmed with a survey sheet from a chip supplier.
In order to complement 2) to 4) and ensure the effect, it is desirable to check the fieldby own employee or employee of overseas affiliated company, to conduct an audit by athird party, or to acquire certification from the industry recognition system.
The procurement policy that defined items on the procurement of “Content(Guideline) to be Described in Procurement Policy” and “Reused/Unused Wood” of Table
2 shall be published and the procurement policy shall be submitted. In addition, theprocurement policy and status on conformance to the criteria shall be disclosed on ahome page of Eco Mark Office. In the case of an OEM product, if raw materials of the
product are separately managed, a certificate of conformance by a paper manufacturer
shall be submitted.
[Certification Procedure of coating amount]
Certificates on the volume of coating issued by paper manufacturers shall be
submitted. The certificates shall include a controlled standard value of coating forsingle- and dual-sided specifications.
[Certification Procedure of brightness]
A controlled standard value according to ISO whiteness degree (diffuse blue
reflectance) defined in JIS P8148 issued by a paper manufacturer shall be
indicated. However, an allowable error of ±3% in control of manufacturing processes
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shall be permitted.
(2) In order to control energy consumption during manufacturing, efforts shall bemade to reduce waste sheets and prevent overuse of waste sheets.
[Certification Procedure]
A report on the percentage of waste sheet used in an Eco Mark product (mean per
one representative lot) to be issued by a paper manufacturer who manufacture basepaper shall be submitted.
In addition, the report on the percentage of waste sheet used shall be submitted
every year after a use contract is concluded.
(3) When virgin pulp (excluding virgin pulp manufactured from recycled resources
such as lower grade timber and mill ends, etc. generated from plywood andsawmills) is used, the timber used for material wood must be harvested in legalmanner consistent with procedures in the forest laws of timber producing countries.
[Certification Procedure]
A certificate shall be submitted to prove that the timber whose legality has beenverified* in accordance with “Guideline for Verification on Legality andSustainability of Wood and Wood Products” of Forestry Agency has been in custody
to be separated by the applicant or the paper manufacturer and is supplied to theapplied products. At the same time, the applicant or the paper manufacturer who
issues the above certificate shall submit any of the following certificates:
1) Certificate that the applicant or the paper manufacturer has been assessed andauthenticated by the CoC (Chain of Custody) Certification System;
2) Certificate of the authorized company (that guarantees the association member’s
adequate way of supplying wood and wood products verified with legality, etc.);and3) Code of management practice which stipulates the way of custody to manage
wood and wood products verified with legality (the method in the case that thetimber verified with legality only is handled. The same applies to hereunder),retention of certificates for a predetermined period, etc.
In the event that Item 2) or 3) above is chosen and the certificate is submitted, theapplicant or the paper manufacturer who issues the above-mentioned certificatesshall publicly announce through its Web site the code of management practiceprescribed by the association concerned in the case of Item 2) and shall prescribeand publicly announce through its website the code of management practiceconcerning the scheme to assess and guarantee the system for separative
management, document management for retention of certificates for apredetermined period, etc. in the case of Item 3).
*Confirm the certificate issued by the related company closest in commercial
process, which at least verifies that wood and wood products they supply are withlegality and under separative custody management.
(4) Addition of fluorescent whitening agents as prescription constituents shall beminimized.
[Certification Procedure]

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Certificates issued by the paper manufacturer indicating whether fluorescent
whitening agents are used shall be submitted. If used, the amount of the agent usedshall be included in the certificate(5) Azo colorants (dyes and pigments) which may generate one or more amines ofTable 1 in the decomposition of one or more azo radicals by reduction shall not be
used. If used, one or more amines listed in Table 1 shall not be detected in 30 mg
per kg or more of the product.
Table3Amines that shall not be generated as a result of the decomposition of azo
radicals
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22

Chemical substance
4-aminodiphenyl
benzidine
4-chloro-0-toluidine
2-naphthylamine
0-aminoazotoluene
2-amino-4-nitrotoluene
p-chloroaniline
2,4-diaminoanisole
4,4'diaminophenylmethane
3,3'dichlorobenzidine
3,3'dimethoxybenzidine
3,3'dimethylbenzidine
3,3'dimethyl-4,4'diaminodiphenylmethanep-cresidine
4,4'methylene-bis-(2-chloroaniline)
4,4'oxydianiline
4,4'thiodianiline
0-toluidine
2,4-toluilenediamine
2,4,5-trimethylaniline
0-anisidine
4-amino- azobenzene

CAS No.
92-67-1
92-87-5
95-69-2
91-59-8
97-56-3
99-55-8
106-47-8
615-05-4
101-77-9
91-94-1
119-90-4
119-93-7
838-88-0
120-71-8
101-14-4
101-80-4
139-65-1
95-53-4
95-80-7
137-17-7
90-04-0
60-09-3[Certification Procedure]
Certificates issued by the paper manufacturer indicating whether the concerned
substances are used shall be submitted. If used, one of the three certificates 1) to
3) below issued by the paper manufacturer to certify that no amines in Table 2 havebeen detected exceeding 30 mg per kg of the product shall be submitted.
1) Certificates specifying that no colorants exceeding 30 mg per kg of the productare contained.
2) Certificates specifying that no amines in Table 3 have been detected exceeding
30 mg per kg of the product after considering every such risk in theory.
3) Certificates specifying that no amines in Table 3 exceeding 30 mg per kg of the
product have been detected by an analysis method prescribed in the list of public
testing methods based on Article 35 of the German law on foods and daily
supplies.
(6) Chlorine gas bleaching shall not be conducted for virgin pulp used in the applied
product.
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Certificates issued by the paper manufacturer shall be submitted.
(7) In manufacturing the applied product, related environmental laws andregulations and pollution control agreement (hereinafter referred to as the“Environmental Laws, etc.”) must be followed with respect to air pollution, watercontamination, noise, offensive odor, and emission of hazardous substances in thearea where the plant performing the final manufacturing process is located.
In addition, the state of compliance with the Environmental Laws, etc. for the past
five years from the date of application (whether there is any violation) must bereported. If there is any violation, proper remedies and preventive measures shallhave been already taken, and the related Environmental Laws, etc. must thereafter
be followed appropriately.
[Certification Procedure]With respect to the compliance with the Environmental Laws, etc. in the area where
the plant performing the final manufacturing process is located, a certificate issued
by the representative of the business of manufacturing the applied product or the
relevant plant manager (entry or attachment of a list of names of theEnvironmental Laws, etc.) must be submitted.
In addition, the applicants shall report whether there is any violation in the past
five years, including a violation subject to administrative punishment oradministrative guidance, and if there is, the following documents in a and b mustbe submitted:
a. With respect to the fact of violation, guidance documents from administrative
agencies (including order of correction and warning) and copies of written
answers (including those reporting causes and results of correction) to such
documents (clearly indicating a series of communication);b. Following materials (copies of recording documents, etc.) concerning themanagement system for compliance with the Environmental Laws, etc. in 1)5):
1) List of the Environmental Laws, etc. related to the area where the plant islocated;2) Implementation system (organizational chart with roles, etc.);
3) Bylaws stipulating retention of recording documents;
4) Recurrence prevention measures (future preventive measures);5) State of implementation based on recurrence prevention measures (result ofchecking of the state of compliance, including the result of onsite inspection).
In addition, if the Act on Confirmation, etc. of Release Amounts of Specific Chemical
Substances in the Environment and Promotion of Improvements to theManagement Thereof is applicable to a plant manufacturing products andsubstances covered thereby (Class 1 designated chemical substance) are used morethan the prescribed amount the reporting responsibility of which is defined by thelaw, a certificate stating the amount of emission and transfer of each substance tobe issued by Manager of the plant manufacturing the product shall be submitted.
(8) The product shall contain no prohibited materials.
[Certification Procedure]
Details shall be indicated in the Attached Certificate.

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reduced environmental burden when incinerated.
[Certification Procedure]
Details shall be indicated in the Attached Certificate.
(10) The content ratio of waste paper pulp (a minimum numerical value to beguaranteed) shall be indicated on a product package.
[Certification Procedure]
A display plan draft showing the content ratio of waste paper pulp on the package
shall be submitted.

4-2. Quality Criteria and Certification Procedure(11) For quality and safety, appropriate quality criteria shall be met or quality control
shall be adequate in the manufacturing process. For items prescribed withmeasuring methods by the Japanese Industrial Standards, etc., the measurements
obtained according to these procedures shall be submitted. In addition, the basis
weight shall be controlled within ±5% of a controlled standard value of each productlot during production.
[Certification Procedure]
Certification stating that the product complies with appropriate quality criteria
shall be submitted. Otherwise, certificates specifying that the quality control was
adequately implemented in the manufacturing stage and that no laws andregulations have been violated shall be submitted. In addition, a controlled
standard value of basis weight shall be submitted.

5. Product Classification, Indication and Others(1) Product classification (application unit) shall be by brand name and amanufacturing plant. Classification by size or basis weight is not performed.
(2) In principle, Eco Mark shown as below shall be indicated on the product. Regarding
licensee of Eco Mark Utilization Contract who already own Eco Mark products, theindication of the logo and certification number that have been used is also
acceptable.

(Note for the indication)*For indicating the logo, Eco Mark certification number (eight-digit number) or thename of the licensee using the logo shall be appeared.
* Such expression as “Eco Mark product” can be used following the 2.(2) of the Guide
to Eco Mark Usage.
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107 V3 Criteria“Eco Mark product”, “#Eco Mark”, “www.ecomark.jp”, “Eco Mark Certificate”* In accordance with “Environmental Labeling Guidelines” of the Ministry of theEnvironment of Japan, etc., the environmental claims of certified products may be
indicated in association with Eco Mark.
(https://www.env.go.jp/policy/hozen/green/ecolabel/guideline/)* The Guide to Eco Mark Usage shall be followed for any cases not listed above.
(https://www.ecomark.jp/office/guideline/guide/)(3) Total evaluation value and evaluation items and those values calculated by Table
1-1 or 1-2 will be posted on the Eco Mark Office website.

Established: May 1, 2009 (Version3.0)
Revised: March 15, 2010 (Version3.1)
Revised: March 1, 2011 (Version3.2)
Revised: July 13, 2012 (Version3.3)
Revised: April 1, 2014 (Version3.4)
Revised: March 1, 2018 (Version3.5)
Extension of Expiration: March 1, 2020
Revised: March 15, 2024 (4-1(1), Version3.6)
Expiration date: April 30, 2026
The Certification Criteria for the Product Category will be revised when necessary.

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