Introduction to Japanese Chemical Review Law

Release time:

2019-09-06 14:49

What is the Japanese Law?

The full name of Japan's Chemical Review Law is the Chemical Substances Review and Manufacturing Management Law (Chemical Substance Control Law, CSCL ), promulgated on October 16, 1973, and is the world's first regulation to control the risk of chemical substances. In 2017, the 17-year amendment to Japan's Chemical Review Law passed a cabinet resolution and will be implemented in stages from April 1, 2018 and January 1, 2019. The Chemical Review Law provides risk management for industrial chemicals produced or imported in Japan, which is jointly supervised by the Ministry of Health, Health and Social Security (MHLW), the Ministry of Environment (MOE), and the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Industry (METI).

Management requirements for existing substances:

The first kind of specific chemical substances: apply for a license to produce, import, usually prohibited.

Second type of specific chemical substance: reporting scheduled and actual production and import quantities.

Monitoring substances: declare the actual production, import volume and use and hazard information, and transmit hazard information to practitioners.

Priority assessment of substances: declare the actual production, import volume and use, publish the name and declared volume of substances, supplement the submission of experimental results if necessary, and transmit information to downstream.

General substances: annual report, reported manufacturing, import volume, detailed use

Chemical substance registration process

According to the regulations of CSCL, new chemical substances refer to the chemical substances that are not listed in the first specific chemical substance list, the second specific chemical substance list, the priority assessment chemical substance list (PACs), the monitoring chemical substance list, the existing and new chemical substance list (ENCS) and other five specific control lists. When a chemical substance is not listed in the above five regulatory catalogues, according to the regulatory requirements of CSCL, the chemical substance is a new chemical substance and must be declared to the Japanese government before formal production or import. According to the application materials submitted by the enterprises, the government management departments evaluate and grade the health and environmental risks of the substances in combination with the hazard information and exposure level of the substances. The flow chart is as follows.

Query URL

Whether it is a new chemical substance can be queried through the following two websites.

J-Check website

Website:

http://www.safe.nite.go.jp/jcheck/search.action?request_locale=en

NITE-CHRIP website

Website:

http://www.nite.go.jp/en/chem/chrip/chrip_search/systemTop

Exemptions:

• Liquid waste and waste (except for recycling and trafficking)

• Not conforming to the definition of "chemical substance" in the regulations: such as natural substances, alloys, etc.

• Research use or reagent use

Articles and mixtures that can be sold over the counter (e. g. household detergents)

• All self-produced and self-consumed intermediates

Mixtures containing less than 10% (except for dilution and artificial mixing)

Other legally regulated substances (food, pesticides, fertilizers, feed and feed additives, drugs, cosmetics, cosmeceuticals, etc.), but still subject to reporting if used for industrial purposes.

• Exempt substances from the list

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