Study on Strategies for Capacity Building of Chemicals Integrated Management (9)

The most important point for responding to the Diet’s resolutions is to fulfill the related international agreements sincerely

Abstract

Both the House of Representatives and the House of Councilors of Japan have made many supplementary resolutions about the adoption of the government bill for amending the Japanese law on the regulation of chemicals, of which the abbreviated name is Kashin-hou in Japanese. Many items in these resolutions can not be dealt with by the Kashin-hou because of its narrow regulatory roles. In other words, the Diet has called the government for the fulfillment of various international agreements, such as Agenda 21, SAICM and so on, in accordance with the global propagation of the chemicals integrated management. We here clarify problems in the Japanese government approaches towards the SAICM action plan and recommend the due procedural steps, in which a national profile is prepared first of all under the participation of various stakeholders and a national action plan be made, based on the recommendations in the national profile.