Eco Mark Product Category No.113“Packaging Paper Version3.3”
Certification Criteria―Applicable Scope―
Base paper of packaging paper, packaging bag, envelopes, etc. which arecovered in Eco Mark Product Category No.112 “Stationery/Office Supplies
Version1”

Established: May 1, 2009
Last revised: April 1, 2014
Expiration date: April 30, 2026

Japan Environment Association
Eco Mark Office

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

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Eco Mark Product Category No.113“Printing Paper Version3.3” Certification Criteria
Japan Environment Association
Eco Mark Office
1. Purpose of Establishing Certification Criteria
Annual production of packaging paper in Japan totaled some 0.99 million tons in2007, staying consistent in recent years. Under the Eco Mark Program, packaging
paper is included in the scope of this Product Category No. 113 “Packaging Paper” topromote use of waste paper mainly.
The scam of falsely reporting the percentage of waste paper pulp (in the problem
which started with New Year greeting postcards made from recycled paper, it was
found that for office paper or communication paper, etc. included in Eco Mark ProductCategories, the waste paper pulp was falsely mixed at the rate lower than thestandard waste paper pulp percentage of the Eco Mark), which was revealed in
January 2008, developed into the major social problem. It confused a number ofpeople 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 the scam of the percentage of waste paper pulp, the Japan
Environment Association conducted site visits to paper manufacturing plants andsampling analysis, etc., and released results thereof. At the same time, on the basisof the review made by “the Exploratory Committee on Measures to Prevent
Recurrence of Deception of Eco Mark Environment”, which was established to takeactions 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 exercising complete 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 toregain trust of consumers, etc. in the Eco Mark and recycled paper and not todiscourage their efforts to recycle waste paper, clarified the definition of thepercentage of waste paper pulp, etc., and newly drew up requirements for handling ofwaste sheets and the mixture rate, so that any similar problem can be prevented.
In this product category, as a review of Certification Criteria of No.107 “PrintingPaper 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
Base paper of packaging paper, packaging bag, envelopes, etc. which are covered in
Eco Mark Product Category No.112 “Stationery/Office Supplies Version1”

3. Terminology

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Packaging paper

A general term for paper used to wrap goods in order toprotect them
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 distributionchain).
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 anassociated 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 isused 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.)
Waste paper pulp Pulp obtained by deflaking or deflaking/deinking waste paper,
paper board, or cutting scraps of paper or paper board
Percentage
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. Inaddition, waste sheets shall not be included in the denominatorand numerator, respectively, of the calculating formula of waste
paper pulp combination rate.
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.
Base paper
General name of paper serving as base material subject tobag-making, painting, impregnating process, etc.
Paper
“PAPER (142)” listed in the Medium Category of the Japan
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ManufacturerStandard Industrial Classification (The Ministry of Internal
Affairs and Communications Public Notice No. 175 of March23, 2009), and “Paper (1421)”, “Paperboard (1422)”,“Machine-made Japanese style paper (1423)” and “Hand-madeJapanese style paper (1424)” in the Small Category.
Subsidiary,Those defined in each section of Article 8 of “Ordinance on
affiliate company, Terminology, Forms and Preparation Methods of Financial
andassociated Statements, etc.” based on the stipulation of Article 193 of thecompany
Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (Act No. 25 of 1948).
Brightness
ISO whiteness degree (diffuse blue reflectance) defined in JIS
P8148 or degree of whiteness of pulp or paper according to theHunter method defined by JAPAN TAPPI (Japan TechnicalAssociation of the Pulp and Paper Industry). In addition, acontrolled standard value refers to a value specified in a
written technical standard (quality standard), etc. andcontrolled in a manufacturing plant.
Fluorescent
An agent that fluoresces under UV light and visually enhances
whitening agent
the whiteness of paper.
Prescription
Components intentionally added with the purpose of providing
constituents
specific characteristics to the product. Impurities thatinevitably enter during the manufacturing process areexcluded.
Those materials defined as prohibited materials in the “WasteProhibited
paper Quality Standard” established by the Paper Recycling
materials
Promotion Center (Incorporated Foundation)

4. Certification Criteria and Certification Procedure
4-1. Environmental Criteria and Certification Procedure(1) For the base paper for wrapping paper and for envelopes, the percentage of thewaste paper in the pulp mixture shall be at least 40%. For the base paper for paperbags, the percentage of the waste paper in the pulp mixture shall be at least 30%.
[Certification Procedure]
A paper quality certificate issued by a paper manufacturer who manufacturesbase paper, which indicates the percentage 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 thepercentage 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 PaperPulp” (April 2, 2008: Japan Paper Association) or a document, etc. in accordance
therewith and related to result of an internal audit on the percentage 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 result
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every year after a use contract is concluded.
(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 usage of waste sheet in an Eco Mark product (mean
per one representative lot) to be issued by a paper manufacturer whomanufacture base paper shall be submitted.
In addition, the report on the percentage of usage of waste sheet shall besubmitted every year after a use contract is concluded.
(3) When virgin pulp (excluding virgin pulp manufactured from thinned wood, andthose manufactured from recycled resources such as lower grade timber and millends, etc. generated from plywood and sawmills) is used, the timber used formaterial wood must be harvested in legal manner 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 incustody to be separated by the applicant or the paper manufacturer and issupplied to the applied 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 withlegality, etc.); and
3) 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 Web site 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 commercialprocess, which at least verifies that wood and wood products they supply are withlegality and under separative custody management(4) The coating amount shall be 30 g/m 2 or less on both sides. However, the4/8

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maximum amount per side shall be 17g/ m 2.
[Certification Procedure]
Certificates on the volume of coating issued by paper manufacturers shall besubmitted. The certificates shall include the specific volumes of coating for single and dual-sided specifications.
(5) Addition of fluorescent whitening agents as prescription constituents shall beminimized.
[Certification Procedure]
Certificates issued by the paper manufacturer indicating whether fluorescent
whitening agents are used shall be submitted. If used, the amount of the agent
used shall be included in the certificate(6) 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 beused. If used, one or more amines listed in Table 1 shall not be detected in 30 mg
per kg or more of the product.
Table1

Amines that shall not be generated as a result of the decomposition of azo
radicals
12
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) to3) below issued by the paper manufacturer to certify that no amines in Table 2
have been detected exceeding 30 mg per kg of the product shall be submitted.
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1) Certificates specifying that no colorants exceeding 30 mg per kg of the productare contained.
2) Certificates specifying that no amines in Table 2 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 2 exceeding 30 mg per kg of theproduct 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 anddaily supplies.
(7) Chlorine gas bleaching shall not be conducted for virgin pulp used in the applied
product.
[Certification Procedure]
Certificates issued by the paper manufacturer shall be submitted.
(8) 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, acertificate issued by the representative of the business of manufacturing theapplied product or the relevant plant manager (entry or attachment of a list ofnames of the Environmental 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. in1)-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 (resultof checking of the state of compliance, including the result of onsiteinspection).
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In addition, if the Act on Confirmation, etc. of Release Amounts of SpecificChemical 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
more than the prescribed amount the reporting responsibility of which is definedby the law, a certificate stating the amount of emission and transfer of each
substance to be issued by Manager of the plant manufacturing the product shallbe submitted.
(9) The product shall contain no prohibited materials defined by the Paper
Recycling Promotion Center.
[Certification Procedure]
Details shall be indicated in the Attached Certificate(10) The product packaging shall be designed to facilitate recycling and shall imparta reduced environmental burden when incinerated.
[Certification Procedure]
Details shall be indicated in the Attached Certificate(11) The percentage 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 percentage of waste paper pulp on the package
shall be submitted.

4-2. Quality Criteria and Certification Procedure(12) For quality, appropriate quality criteria such as the Japanese Industrial
Standards JIS P 3401, etc. shall be met. In addition, the basis weight shall becontrolled within ±5% of a controlled standard value of each product lot during
production.
[Certification Procedure]
Result of a test based on quality standards (including dimensions) such as
Japanese Industrial Standards, etc. or a copy of JIS certified plant shall besubmitted. A controlled standard value of basis weight shall also be submitted. In
addition, a controlled standard value of basis weight shall be submitted.

Established: May 1, 2009 (Version3.0)
Revised: March 1, 2011 (Version3.1)
Revised: July 13, 2012 (Version3.2)
Revised: April 1, 2014 (Version3.3)
Extension of Expiration: March 1, 2020
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The Certification Criteria for the Product Category will be revised when necessary.

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