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Chemical Substances Control Law

CSCL was amended in 2009. Implementation of the 2009 CSCL amendments commenced on April 1, 2010. An outline of the amended CSCL is available on METI's website.
http://www.meti.go.jp/policy/chemical_management/english/documents.html

Outline and English provisional translation of the previous CSCL are available here.

The Amended Chemical Substances Control Law

These are effective as of April 1, 2011.

Law(PROVISIONAL TRANSLATION)

• Provisional translation of CSCL, which come into effect as of April 1 2011  [PDF:356KB]

Notification(PROVISIONAL TRANSLATION)

• Implementation of the Act on the Evaluation of Chemical Substances and Regulation of Their Manufacture, etc.  [PDF:56KB]
• Notification of the Manufacturing Amount, etc. of General Chemical Substances and Priority Assessment Chemical Substances Preliminary Preparation Materials [PDF:349KB]

Other Information

• Presentation material of the CSCL workshop in Taipei on September 9, 2010. (English material includes tentative translation of Chinese)  [PDF:3.74MB]
• Execution Status of Law concerning the Examination and Regulation of Manufacture, etc. of Chemical Substances (CSCL) (2007) [PDF:342KB]