Legal Basis - Japan
All links visited in September 2007. Legislative measures are subject to constant change. Therefore, the authors do not take responsibility for missing information. Please feel free to contact us concerning any amendment of this list.
Emissions trading
- Kyoto Protocol Target Achievement Plan (not available online)
Energy efficiency
- Law Concerning the Promotion of the Integration and Efficiency of Distribution Operations (Comprehensive Distribution Efficiency Law) (not available online)
Renewable energies
- Law Concerning Special Measures for the Use of New Energy, etc. by Electric Utilities (RPS Law) (not available online)
- Law Concerning the Promotion of Development and the Introduction of Oil Alternative Energy (Alternative Energy Law) (not available online)
- Act on the Promotion of New Energy Usage (not available online)
- Enactment of Law Concerning Special Measures for Promotion of New Energy Use, etc. (New Energy Law) (not available online)
- New National Energy Strategy (Digest) [pdf, English, 2 MB]
Climate Protection/Protection of the Ozone Layer
- Law Concerning the Promotion of the Measures to Cope with Global Warming [English, links to the Ministry of Environment of the Government of Japan]
- The Law Concerning the Protection of the Ozone Layer Through the Control of Specified Substances and Other Measures (May 1988) [pdf, English, 32 KB, links to the Ministry of Environment of the Government of Japan]
- Law for Ensuring the Implementation of Recovery and Destruction of Fluorocarbons concerning Specified Products (Law No. 64 of 2001, also known as the Fluorocarbons Recovery and Destruction Law) (not available online)
- February 1998 Guidelines for Measures to Limit Emissions of HFCs (not available online)
Air Pollution
- Air Pollution Control Law [English, links to the Ministry of Environment of the Government of Japan]
- Offensive Odor Control Law [English, links to the Ministry of Environment of the Government of Japan]
- Law Concerning Special Measures for Total Emission Reduction of Nitrogen Oxides from Automobiles in Specified Areas [English, links to the Ministry of Environment of the Government of Japan]
- Act on Regulation, Etc. of Emissions from Non-road Special Motor Vehicles [pdf, English, 1 MB, links to the Ministry of Environment of the Government of Japan]
- Waste Disposal Law (not available online)
