Fare Regulation for Oil Removal Equipment Deployment Certificate Issuance（From April 1, 2021）
Revised on January 6, 2021
Section 1: The Contract for Oil Removal Equipment Deployment and Emergency Response (hereinafter the “Contract”)
and this Regulation stipulate the amount of fees, proceedings and other items for the issuance of Oil Removal
Equipment Deployment Certificate (hereinafter the “Certificate”) to be made by the Maritime Disaster Prevention
Center (hereinafter the “Center”) under Section 4 of the Contract.
Section 2: Fees of each Certificate are as follows:(1) The table below summarizes the Annual Certificate fee.

(Unit: yen)
Annual Certificate fee

Gross tonnage (G/T)

Excluding tax

Including tax

5,000 G/T to less than 10,000 G/T

1,056,000

1,161,600

10,000 G/T to less than 50,000 G/T

1,200,000

1,320,000

50,000 G/T to less than 100,000 G/T

1,354,000

1,489,400

Over 100,000 G/T

1,498,000

1,647,800(Unit: yen)

(2) The amount of the Specified Period Certificate fee is as given in the table below.
Gross tonnage (G/T)

Four (4) weeks
Excluding tax

5,000 G/T to less than 10,000 G/T
10,000 G/T to less than 50,000 G/T
50,000 G/T to less than 100,000 G/T
Over 100,000 G/T

132,000(135,000)
150,000(153,000)
170,000(173,000)
188,000(191,000)

Including tax(148,500)(168,300)(190,300)(210,100)

Twenty-six (26) weeks
Excluding tax

Including tax

528,000(531,000)
600,000(603,000)
677,000(680,000)
749,000(752,000)(584,100)(663,300)(748,000)(827,200)

Notes:※The bracketed figure in the above table shows the amount including the fee for issuing Specified Period Certificate.
※Fees excluding tax for eight (8) and twelve (12) weeks are respectively 2 and 3 times the fee excluding tax for 4 weeks.

Section 3: The following table defines the service fees.

(Prices do not include tax)

Type of fee

Amount (¥)

Fee for issuing Annual Certificate

ExemptedFee for issuing Specified Period Certificate

3,000

Fee for re-issuing each Certificate in the case of revising entries of the Certificate

3,000

Fee for refunding process in the case of scrapping a ship due to an accident at sea
or for any other reason after the issuance of an Annual Certificate3,000

Bank transfer fee: to be borne by the applicant

Relevant amountThe cancellation fee in Section 4(4) of the Contract (¥10,000 excluding tax) includes a service fee for cancellingthe issuance of the Certificate after the Ship Owners’ application for the Certificate and payment into the bankaccount designated by the Center (including after issuance of the Certificate).

1Section 4: Collection of additional fees, refund of fees and other proceedings are as follows:(1) In the case of application for emergency issuance after the closing date for application for the Specified PeriodCertificate (emergency issuance), 50% of the amount which is equivalent to the four (4)-week-period Certificate ischarged additionally (tax extra) to the issuance fee.
(2) If emergency application is made after March 20 (if that day is a bank holiday, the immediately preceding bankbusiness day), the closing date for applying for the Annual Certificate, and between March 21 (if that day is a bankholiday, the immediately following bank business day) and April 30 (if that day is a bank holiday, the immediately
preceding bank business day), 10% of the Certificate fee (tax extra) is charged in addition to the Annual Certificatefee.

However, for the Annual Certificate to be issued on or after May 1 (if that day is a bank holiday, theimmediately following bank business day), the validity period of the Certificate is stated as the current year’s April
1 to March 31 of the following year, and the Certificate is regarded as taking effect on the preferable start date that
the Ship Owners states in the application form, in accordance with Section 3 (1) of the Contract (hereinafter the “dayof issuance”) (hereinafter in this Section “Annual Certificate Starting Midyear”). The Annual Certificate fee (for 12months) is charged therefor.
(3) An application for the Annual Certificate Starting Midyear shall be made and proceedings shall be completed by
two days before the day of issuance (if that day is a bank holiday, the immediately preceding bank business day).
However, an application for emergency issuance of the Certificate may be made by 15:00 on the day before theday of issuance (if that day is a bank holiday, the immediately preceding bank business day) if necessary, provided
that 10% of the Certificate issuance fee is charged additionally (tax extra) to the Annual Certificate.
(4) If the Ship is scrapped, sold, etc. during the validity period of the Annual Certificate (including Annual Certificate
Starting Midyear), the applicant must promptly notify the Center. In this case, the Center shall refund the balance
after deducting from the amount to be paid by the Ship Owners at the time of applying for the issuance of theCertificate, the Certificate fee which is equivalent to the amount calculated on a monthly basis up to and including
the month of the effective date of scrapping, sales, etc. of the Ship, the fee for refunding process, additional feesprescribed in this Section and bank transfer fee. To apply for refund of the fee for the remaining validity period of
the Certificate, the Ship Owners shall inform the Center in writing within three months of the effective date ofscrapping, sales, etc. of the Ship, and attach documents that help explain the status of operations in Japan (e.g., copyof the registration certificate, original register of deregistration or sales contract proving registration/deregistration
for the original ship register).
(5) As for an emergency issuance, the Certificate will be urgently issued, provided that, by 15:00 on the day before thestart date of the validity period (in case of Annual Certificate Starting Midyear, the day of issuance) of the Certificate(if that day is a bank holiday, the immediately preceding bank business day), the application process for Certificate
is completed and also the Certificate fee, the additional fee set forth in this Section and other related fees are paid.
(6) Unless otherwise provided in the Contract or this Fare Regulation, the Center will not refund the Ship Owners theCertificate fee and other items. However, when the cancellation is made under Section 4(4) of the Contract, (a) if
the Certificate has not yet been issued at the time of receipt of the written cancellation notice, the Center will refund
the Ship Owners the balance after deducting from the sum received at the Center’s designated bank account thebank transfer fee incurred for making the refund; (b) if the Certificate has been issued but the validity period has notyet commenced at the time of receipt of the written cancellation notice, the Center will refund the Ship Owners thebalance after deducting from the amount to be paid by the Ship Owners when applying for the issuance of theCertificate, the fee for issuing the Certificate, cancellation fee, additional fees prescribed in this Section, and banktransfer fee.

2Section 5: This Fare Regulation follows the provisions below.
(1) Any fraction less than one yen is rounded up.
(2) Numbers of days less than one month are handled as a month when a figure is calculated on a monthly basis.
(3) Foreign trading ships are exempted from consumption taxes.
(4) Proceedings for emergency issuance (provision of Section 3(2) of the Contract and paragraph 5 of the precedingsection), proceedings for changes of ship owner or the like, or any other similar proceedings shall be accepted byfax as a rule.
Supplementary Provision:
This Fare Regulation shall apply to the application for the Certificate, whose validity period commences on or afterApril 1, 2021.

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