Latest progress on chemical
management under CSCL in Japan
October 30, 2019
Seminar on the Latest Trends and Development
in Chemical Management Policies
among China, Japan and Korea

Takahiro Yanagida
Director of Chemicals Evaluation Office,Environmental Health Department,
Ministry of the Environment
Government of Japan1

<Table of Contents>
1. Overview of Chemical Substances Control
Law (CSCL)
2. Evaluation of New Chemical Substances /Risk Assessment of Existing Chemical
Substances, etc.

3. Response to the POPs Convention2

1. Overview of Chemical Substances
Control Law (CSCL)

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Role of the Chemical Substances Control Law in Japanese Chemical Substance Control
 In Japan, chemical substances are regulated under a variety of laws according to their exposure route and life
cycle stage, etc.
 The objective of CSCL is to assess any long-term toxicity to humans via the environment, and their impact onliving environments and ecosystems.
Exposure
HazardEmission/Discharge

Disposal

Waste Management andPublic Cleaning Act

Water Pollution Control Act

Air Pollution Control Act

Law Concerning Pollutant Release
and Transfer Register(PRTR)

Impact on Human Health

Use

Agricultural Chemical Control
Act

Chemical Substances Control Law(CSCL)

Building Standards Act(sick building syndrome, etc.)

Household Goods Regulation Act

Household Goods Quality
Labeling Act

Pharmaceutical Medical Devices Law

Food Sanitation Act

Greenhouse
EffectAgricultural Chemical Control Act

Ozone Layer
Depletion
Potential

Agricultural Chemical Control Act

Effect on Living
Environments(Including animals
and plants)

Manufacture

Poisonous and Deleterious
Substances Control Act

Industrial Safety and Health Act

Chronic(Long-Term)
Toxicity

Consumer

CrisisManagement
Law on the Prohibition of Chemical
Weapons and the Regulation ofSpecific Chemicals

Acute Toxicity

Via Environment

Working
Environment

Act on Preventing Environmental
Pollution of Mercury

Ozone Layer
Protection Law

Law Concerning the Recovery and Destructionof Fluorocarbons

4Chemical Substances Control Law
 Act on the Evaluation of Chemical Substances and Regulation of Their
Manufacture, etc. (CSCL: Chemical Substance Controls Law) Enacted in 1973, last revised on June 2017
 Purposes: 1. Establish a system to evaluate the properties of new
chemical substances before their manufacture/import and 2. regulate
their manufacture, import, and use, depending on their properties, toprevent environmental pollution caused by the chemical substancesthat can harm human health or damage living environment of animals
and plants.
Regulates long-term toxicity to humans and impact on ecosystems through environmental
exposure Key measures- Reviewing new chemical substances before their launch (500 to 700 cases/year)- Performing environmental risk assessment on chemical substances that are already on
the market (approx. 28,000 substances)- Regulates manufacture, import, and use of chemical substances depending on theirproperties
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CSCL Target Substances
 Definition of chemical substances in CSCL: chemical compounds obtained by making elements orcompounds react chemically.
 Chemical substances subject to CSCL: substances used for general industrial chemical products.
(Article 2 and 55)(*) Substances that are controlled by other regulations equivalent to or stricter than CSCL (toxic substances specified in Poisonous andDeleterious Substances Control Law, substances controlled by other regulations according to their applications (food and additives
specified in the Food Sanitation Act, etc.)) are excluded.
Manufacture regulation

Discharge regulation

Waste regulation

Water Pollution
Prevention Act

Waste
Management andPublic Cleaning
Act

Chemical substances under CSCL

Chemical substances- Elements, natural products<General use (industrial)>- General industrial
chemical products<Specific application>[Food Sanitation Act]
Food, additives, packages, toys, detergent[Agricultural Chemicals Control Act]
Agrichemical[Fertilizer Regulation Act]
General fertilizer[Act on Safety Assurance and Quality Improvement of Feeds]
Feed, feed additives[Order for Enforcement of the Act on Securing Quality, Efficacy, andSafety of Products Including Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices]
Pharmaceuticals, quasi-drug, cosmetic products, medical devices,
regenerative medical products[Radiation Hazard Prevention Act]
[Poisonous and Deleterious Substances Control Act]
[Stimulants Control Act]
[Narcotics and Psychotropics Control Act]

Air Pollution Control
Act

Radioactive substances
Specified poisonous substance
Stimulants, stimulant raw
materials
Narcotic drugs

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Framework of CSCL
◆ Prevents environmental pollution by chemical substances through pre-marketing evaluation as
well as continuous management after placing on the market
Number of substances: as of September, 2019

Persistent, bioaccumulative, long-term
toxicity to human health or predator

Persistent and bioaccumulative, but
toxicity unknown

Special
Exemptions

Assessment Immediately
After Evaluation
Priority Assessment

Chemical Substances(223 substances)
Publishing information 5 years
after evaluation

General Chemical Substances(approx. 28,000 substances)
Reorganization
Following 2009 Revisions

Existing chemical substances: approx. 20,000
New chemical substances that have been
evaluated : approx. 8,000

General Understanding ofUses, etc.

Existing Chemical
Substances

Pose a risk to human health and ecosystems

Detailed
Understanding of
Toxicity, uses, etc.

High-molecular compounds of low
concern

Class II Specified Chemical Substances(23 substances)

Risk Assessment by National
Government

Intermediate substances/materials,
small volumes intermediate
substances/materials, etc.
(ordinance-specified applications)• Duty to submit report on actual production/importamounts, details on intended use , etc.

Control (Restrict)Release into
Environment

Small volumes new substance(1 t or less per year)• Production and import permission (Ban except foressential use)
• Ban on ordinance-specified products• Administrative orders for recall from the market ,etc.
…and other measures•

Placing on the Market Release
Following Pre-marketing
Verification

Not high concentration, Low-volume
production substances(10 t or less per year)

Detailed
Understanding of
uses, etc.

Monitoring Chemical Substances(38 substances)

Prevent Release
into Environment

Market Release Following
Pre-release Inspections

New Chemical
SubstancesClass I Specified Chemical
Substances(33 substances)

Submission of reports on
production/import amounts (plannedand past), intended use(s), etc.
Government order, when necessary,to adjust planned amounts
Technical guidelines regarding
substance handling
Labelling ordinance-specified product…and other measures

•
•

•
•

•
•

Submission of reports on past
production/import amounts,
shipment amounts according todetailed intended-usage categories,
etc.
Substance toxicity verification
Obligation to make best efforts tocommunicate information• Submission of reports on
production/import amounts,
intended use(s), etc.

7Class I Specified Chemical Substances
Definition
 Substances that are persistent, highly accumulated, with long-term toxicity to humans or predatorsof higher trophic, and specified as Class I Specified Chemical Substances by the government
ordinance. 33 Substances including PCB and DDT.
* Number of substances: as of September, 2019

Description of regulation
 Approval system for manufacturing/importing Class I Specified Chemical Substances (as a generalrule, manufacture/import for purposes other than for test/study and essential use are prohibited) Use of Class I Specified Chemical Substances for purposes other than for test/study and essential use
is prohibited.
 Import of products that use the Class I Specified Chemical Substances is prohibited.
 Order to collect substances and penal rules targeting the manufacturers, importers, and users who
violate the laws and regulations

Avoid discharge of persistent,
high-accumulating, long-term toxic substances
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Definition
 Substances that can widely remain in the environment, with long-term toxicity to humans or
animals/plants in the living environment and have been designated as Class II Specified Chemical
Substances. 23 Substances including trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, and carbon
tetrachloride.
 Substances without accumulative property may also be regulated depending on the amountthat remains in the environment.
Description of regulation
 Mandatory reporting of planned and actual amounts manufactured and imported of the Class II Specified Chemical Substances or
products containing Class II Specified Chemical Substances.
 Mandatory labeling for the Class II Specified Chemical Substances and ordinance-specified products.
 If deemed necessary, government issues orders to change planned quantities, recommendation, report imposition, on-site
inspection, to business operators who submit the notification. Recommendation to handling operators.
 Penal rules targeting the manufacturers/importers who violate the laws and regulations(t)
70,00060,00050,000

Shipment quantity of Class II Specified Chemical Substances(excluding exports and intermediate substances)
Trichloroethylene
トリクロロ エチレン
Tetrachloroethylene
テトラクロ ロエチレン
Carbontetrachloride
四塩化 炭素

40,00030,00020,00010,000* Class II Specified Chemical Substances
other than the three substances shownon the left have no record of actual
manufacturing/import quantity.

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2. Evaluation of New Chemical
Substances / Risk Assessment of
Existing Chemical Substances, etc.

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Test items for new chemical substances evaluation
 Tests submitted by business operators in regular evaluations for
new chemical substances
10t or above

Degradability testConcentration test

1)

Repeated dose 28-day toxicity study in mammals

1)

Reverse mutation test using bacteria

1)

Chromosome aberration test using mammalian cultured
cells

1)

Algal growth inhibition test

1)

Daphnia magna acute toxicity test

1)

Acute toxicity test using fish

1)

1)

Test results for non-persistent substances are not required, with the exception of thedegradability test.

Status of Evaluation for New Substances in FY2018
Deliberations made by the Subcommittee on Chemical Substances, Chemical Substances Committee on
Safety Measures Against Chemical Substances, Pharmaceutical Affairs Commission, Pharmaceutical
Affairs and Food Sanitation Council, the Evaluation Committee, Chemical Substances Council and the
Subcommittee on Chemical Substance Evaluation, Environmental Health Committee, Central
Environment Council, and on the basis of the degradability, accumulation, human toxicity and ecotoxicity
submitted by business operators.

Date
2018

2019

Number of New Substances

April 2019

May 1827

June 15

22

July 1329

September 21

51

October 19

28

November 16

25

December 21

21

January 18

31

March 2231
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Judgments on New Chemical Substances (Article 4)
Regular Evaluation and Judgments on New Chemical Substances (FY2018 Results)
No. of Judgments

No. of
Reviews

No. 1

No. 2

No. 3

No. 4

No. 5

No. 6

176

0

9

6

31

130

0

* Regular new substances based on polymer flow schemes, as well as those subjected only to the degradation test, are also included.

(1) Items falling under any of the items in Article 2, Paragraph 2 (Class I Specified
Chemical Substances) ... No. 1(2) When persistent in the degradation test but is judged to be not highly accumulative
via the accumulation test or the Pow analysis ... No. 2 - No. 5
No. 2: Human health toxicity yes, eco-toxicity no
No. 3: Human health toxicity no, eco-toxicity yes
No. 4: Human health toxicity yes, eco-toxicity yes
No. 5: Human health toxicity no, eco-toxicity no(3) When judged to be of good degradability with the degradation test … No. 5(4) When it is unclear if it falls under No. 1 through No. 4 … No. 6
Review and Judgments on Low Production Volume New Chemical Substances(below 10 tons/year nationwide) (FY2017 results)
No. of Reviews

No. of Judgments

116

116

* Low production volumes for new chemical substances based on polymer flow schemes are also included. 13

Preliminary Evaluation and Prior Confirmation of New Chemical Substances Japanese chemical industry is shifting its marketing style to producing small lots of many products.
Following this trend, the special exemption system and notification exemption system were
established as rational systems that consider high-variation/ low-volume production while requiringthat chemical pollution be prevented.
 Information that needs to be submitted to the administration varies, depending on the procedure.
 Business operators who were checked under the special exemption system must accept report
imposition and on-site inspection, as necessary.

Procedure type

ClauseProcedure

Hazardous property data to
be submitted at the time ofnotification

New (regular)

Article 3.1of ActNotification
 Decision

Degradability, Accumulation,
Intended use, planned quantity,
Human Health, Ecologicaletc.
EffectNew (low production
volume)Article 5.1of ActNotification
 Decision
Declaration
Confirmation

Degradability, Accumulation(if available, submit
hazardous property data on
Human Health, Ecological
Effect at the time ofnotification)

New (small amount)

Article 3.1.5of ActDeclaration
Confirmation

Polymers of low concern

Article 3.1.6of ActDeclaration
Confirmation

Intermediate substance,
etc.

Small-amountintermediate
substance, etc.

Article 3.1.4of ActDeclaration
Confirmation

Other supporting data

Quantity Quantity
upper
adjustlimit
mentFrequency ofacceptanceNoNo

10 times/FY

Intended use, planned quantity,
etc.

Whole
country
emission
10 t or
less

Yes

Notification: 10 times/FY
Declaration: As needed―

Intended use planned quantity,
etc.

Whole
country
emission1 t or lessYes

10 times/FY(4 times/FY by post/via
reception desk)―

Molar weight, physical andchemical stability test data, etc.

No

No

As needed

How to handle, drawing thatshows facilities and equipment,
etc.

No

No

As needed(Simplified)1 t or less/1
companyNo

As needed―

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CSCL Screening /Risk Assessment* As of September 2019

Risk Assessment by Phase

CSCL Inventory

About 28,000

About 20,000 existing chemical substances
Approximately 8,000 new chemical substances
examined

About 12,000With more than 1t/year per company, notificationof manufacture/import volume and simple use

Reported Chemical Substances
Screening Assessment

14 Substances
Cancelled* Not including thecancellation of 8
intrusive substances

Priority Assessment Chemical
Substance Designation

Target Substances: approx. 8,000

223

Target: National manufacture/import
total volume above 10 tons/year

Judgment using priority matrix based on
hazard/exposure class

Risk Assessment(primary)
Assessment I

Target substances: 59 substances(Assessment II already
implemented)
11 human health effects
20 ecological effects

5 substances
cancelled

Assessment II

Assessment III

3 substance

Detailed evaluation using PRTR informationand monitoring in addition to
manufacturing/import volume and detailed
use information

Determine exposure information by requesting
handling information, additional monitoring, etc.

Instructions on hazardous investigation of long-term toxicity

Risk Assessment(secondary)Class II Specified Chemical
Substance

0 Substances

Examining hazard information

0 Substances(Former System: 23)

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Risk Assessment (primary) Assessment II of Priority
Assessment Chemical Substances Risk Assessment (primary) Assessment II for Priority Assessment Chemical Substances was performed on 3 substances in 2014, 7
substances in 2015, 9 substances in 2016, 7 substances in 2017 *1, and 6 substances in 2018. To date, a total of 36 substances has
been assessed (including assessment of 12 substances for human health impact, 25 *2 substances for ecological impact, 1 substancefor both human health and ecological impacts).
 Five substances have been removed from Priority Assessment Chemical Substances based on the performed assessments.
*1 Two substances were deliberated for assessment of other hazardous properties. *2 Including substances of which risk assessment progress were reported.

Assessment
deliberationdate2017.6.25

2017.11.24

Substance name

Assessment
aspectAction to be
taken

Trichloroisocyanuric acid

Ecologicaleffect- Exposure assessment results obtained so far are not enough as grounds for evaluating
Assessment II.
- Collect actual measurement data of isocyanuric acid by environmental monitoring.

Continue
Assessment II

Decan-1-ol

Ecologicaleffect- Exposure assessment results obtained so far are not enough as grounds for evaluating
Assessment II.
- Collect actual measurement data of decan-1-ol by environmental monitoring.

Continue
Assessment II

Fenobcarb

Ecologicaleffect- Exposure assessment results obtained so far are not enough as grounds for evaluating
Assessment II.
- Collect actual measurement data of fenobcarb by environmental monitoring.

Continue
Assessment II

N,N-dimethylformamide

Human
health effect- Inform major discharging business operators (based on PRTR information) of risk
assessment results, encourage them to voluntarily improve the situation, confirm thatdischarge amount is reduced, and then remove it from the Priority Assessment Chemical
Substances.

Remove after
confirming
improvement

Ethylene oxide- Proceed to Assessment III and check the conditions of the multiple locations where no
PRTR notification business operators are identified nearby or in the surrounding area of
Human
the monitoring points that marked hazardous property assessment values higher than thehealth effectcriterion.
- Check how the substance is regulated by other laws and regulations.

Sodium dichloroisocyanurate (reassessed together with
Trichloroisocyanuric acid)

EcologicaleffectAmine oxide

Ecologicaleffect2018.1.18

2018.3.23

Assessment result (overview)- Examine chronic toxicity to fish.
- Collect actual measurement data of isocyanuric acid by environmental monitoring.

- Analyze uncertainty factors (definition of physicochemical properties, allowable discharge
amount, etc.) and examine items that can be effectively applied limit uncertainty.

Assessment
III

Continue
Assessment II

Continue
Assessment IIRisk Assessment (primary) Assessment II of Priority
Assessment Chemical Substances
Assessment
deliberationdate2018.7.13

Substance name

Assessment
aspectAction to be
taken

Benzyl benzoate

Ecologicaleffect- Exposure assessment results obtained so far are not enough as grounds for evaluating
Assessment II.
- Collect actual measurement data by environmental monitoring.

AnilineHumanhealth effect- The currently estimated exposure concentrations of Aniline are low enough to conclude
that the substance in the environment will not harm human health.
Continue- Aniline will remain Priority Assessment Chemical Substance since it remains subject to Risk Assessment I
Assessment (primary) Assessment I in terms of ecological impact.

Acrylic acid

EcologicaleffectIdentify the operators that discharge the substance most based on PRTR information andinform them of the state of risk assessment. Meanwhile, because there is uncertainty in theAssessment
sources and environmental monitoring, proceed to Risk Assessment (primary) Assessment III
III
to understand actual discharge states and collect measurement data through environmental
monitoring to examine necessary measures.

Carbon disulfide

Humanhealth effect/ ecologicaleffect- Inform major discharging business operators (based on PRTR information) of risk
assessment results, encourage them to voluntarily improve the situation, confirm thatdischarge amount is reduced, and then remove it from the Priority Assessment Chemical
Substances.

Human
health effect- In September 2018, carbon bisulfide was determined to be readily degradable, based on
the obtained knowledge. Accordingly, there are no grounds for specifying PDTK as Priority
Assessment Chemical Substance. As a result of performing a screening assessment afreshby using the hazard class for piperazine, a variation that contains no carbon bisulfide, and Continue
the exposure class for PDTK, it was confirmed that the substance still falls under the “high” Assessment I
priority group.
- Perform Risk Assessment (primary) Assessment I, with consideration of the actual state of
the use, discharge, and degradation.

Ecologicaleffect- The currently estimated exposure concentrations are low enough to conclude that thesubstance in the environment will not harm the inhabitation and growth of animals andplants in the living environment, in the greater area.
- Exposure assessment results obtained so far are not enough as grounds for evaluating
Assessment II.
- Organize, examine and re-evaluate the risk assessment methods for substances withsurface active action (handling of physicochemical property data on environmental
behavior, environmental concentration estimation methods, risk assessment method forbenthos, etc.). At the same time, through environmental monitoring, collect actual
measurement data of the areas with relatively high, estimated environmental
concentrations of the substance.

2018.7.13
2018.9.21

2018.9.21

Assessment result (overview)

Piperazine

2019.1.18

Stearamide

Continue
Assessment II

Cancel after
confirming
efforts

Continue
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Risk Assessment (primary) Assessment II of Priority
Assessment Chemical Substances
Assessment
deliberation
date

Substance name

Triphenylboron

2019.3.23

Copper pyrithione

Assessment
aspectEcologicaleffectEcologicaleffectAssessment result (overview)- A detailed information document on the physicochemical properties (draft) and hazard
assessment report on ecological impact (draft) were deliberated and approved.
- The assessment method for fishing net antifoulant was approved. It was decided that
the Risk Assessment (primary) Assessment II will be continued.

- Considering that the substance is known to promptly degrade in the environment,
producing alteration products, risk assessment was performed on the alteration
products (POSA and PSA) as well as the parent substance (copper pyrithione).
- Risk estimation was performed because the substance is not covered by PRTR and thus
its CSCL-based discharge amount cannot be obtained and there is no environmental
monitoring data. Currently, estimated PEC is an estimation using a discharge amountestimated from CSCL notification information. The substance readily degrades in water,
with uncertainty in its behavior in the environment. Also, no actual measurement
concentration of the substance has been obtained through environmental monitoring.
Therefore, the substance has various uncertainties. With the information we currently
have, we cannot determine whether it is harming the inhabitation and growth ofanimals and plants in the living environment.
- For the reason above, we will study the uncertainty factors that require additional
research while performing re-assessment considering how problems of the exposure
assessment method for anti-fouling paint scenarios are dealt with.

Action to be
taken

Continue
Assessment II

Continue
Assessment II- The 3 ministries are discussing what parameter should be used as key data inperforming risk assessment from the viewpoint of ecology. It will be examined in adeliberation council in July again.
Nonylphenol

EcologicaleffectTo bedetermined18

3. Response to the POPs Convention

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Response to the POPs Convention (additional Class I substances) Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs Convention)
 To prevent Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) pollution, each nation eliminates and reduces thepollutants in cooperation with other nations.
Adopted in May 2001. Japan acceded to it in August 2002 and it entered into force in May 2004.
• Conference of the Parties (COP) is held once every 2 years. It has been held 9 times.
• Specialized/technical issues are deliberated by the POPs Review Committee (POPRC) under COP.

POPs (Persistent Organic Pollutants)= 1. Toxic,
2. Persistent,
3. Bio-accumulative, and
4. long-range transporting substances

Requires international
preventative efforts

Overview of COP9

 Date: Mon, April 29 – Fri, May 10, 2019, Place: Geneva (Switzerland) Results- Target substances were added. Following POPRC’s recommendations, the following
was decided: Dicofol: added to Annex A
Perfluorooctanoic acid PFOA, its salts and PFOA-related compounds: added toAnnex A
- Acceptable purposes and individual exemption for the substances that had beenpreviously added to Annex were re-examined.
- Effectiveness evaluation of the Convention.

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COP9 New Target Substances under POPs Convention
Substance nameDicofol

Main use
Pesticide

Description of main regulations- Prohibition of manufacture/use (Annex A)(no provision to exclude particular uses)

Perfluorooctanoic Fluorine-containing polymeracid PFOA, its
processing aid, surfactant, foam,salts and PFOAetc.
relatedcompounds- Prohibition of manufacture/use (Annex A)(the following uses are excluded in the provisions.)*— Photolithography or etching process in semiconductor
manufacturing― Photo coating applied to the film
― Oil/water repellent fiber products to protect workers― Invasive/implantable medical devices― The form used with the (mobile/fixed) systems that are placed
to reduce steam from liquid fuel and prevent fires caused byliquid fuel.
― Use of perfluorooctyl iodide (PFOI) for manufacturing
perfluorooctane bromide (PFOB) for manufacturing
pharmaceuticals― Manufacture of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) andpolyVinylidene difluoride (PVDF) for the following products:- High-performance anti-corrosion gas filter membranes, water
processing membranes, membranes for medical fibers- Industrial dump heat exchanger- Industrial sealing material that can prevent leakage of volatileorganic compounds and PM 2.5 particles― Manufacture of fluorinatedethylenepropylene (FEP) for
manufacturing high-voltage transmission wire and cable― Manufacture of fluoroelastomer for manufacturing O-rings, Vbelts, and plastic accessories used for car interior*1 Provisions on individual exclusions become void 5 years from their effective dates.
Japan will examine whether those uses should be excluded in Japan or not.

Response to POPs Convention within JapanCSCL is one of the laws and regulations that guarantee Japan’s adherence to the POPs Convention. Thus,
each of the following POPs specified in the convention needs to be deliberated by Subcommittee on
Chemical Substance Evaluation and necessary actions must be taken by CSCL (revision of cabinet /ministerial orders):- Dicofol- Perfluorooctanoic acid PFOA, its salts and PFOA-related compounds[Considerations towards national actions] Specify the substances as CSCL Class I Specified Chemical Substances (i.e., substances that are
persistent, highly-accumulative, and toxic to human or high-level predator animals on a long-termbasis) (regulatory measure 1.)
 Also, consider taking the regulatory measures 2. to 5. below, based on the actual state of
manufacture within the country, import, and use of the substances, cases in other countries,
environmental risk assessment results within the country, etc.
Regulatory measures:
1. Limit manufacture/import permission and use (CSCL Article 17 and 22)
2. Limit import of products containing Class I Specified Chemical Substances (CSCL Article 24)
3. Use of the substances for exceptionally allowable purposes (essential use) (CSCL Article 25)
4. Obligation to comply with technical criteria (CSCL Article 28)
5. Order to collect the substances following their designation as Class I Specified Chemical Substance(CSCL Article 34)

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Results of Deliberation by Subcommittee on Chemical Substance Evaluation
Central Environment Council’s 1st report (August 2019)

The following chemical substances, which were additionally included in the scope of POPs
Convention, should be specified as Class I Specified Chemical Substances under CSCL:- Dicofol- Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), its salts and PFOA-related compounds
Central Environment Council’s 2nd report (October 2019)
The following measures should be taken along with the designation of the substances as Class I Specified
Chemical Substances:
 Limit the import of products that contain Class I Specified Chemical Substances (CSCL Article 24)
Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), its salts and PFOA-related compounds
Products: floor wax, etc.
 Permit use for exceptionally acceptable purposes (essential use) (CSCL Article 25)
PFOA-related compounds
Purposes: use of perfluorooctyl iodide (PFOI) for manufacturing perfluorooctane bromide (PFOB) for
manufacturing pharmaceuticals
 Obligation to comply with technical standards (CSCL Article 28)
Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), its salts and PFOA-related compounds
Products: fire extinguishers, fire-extinguishing chemical for fire extinguishers, fire extinguishing foam
 The order for CSCL enforcement, etc. will be revised after public comments, etc.

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