Applying for a License pertaining to Use of Satellite Remote Sensing Instruments and a Certification of Persons Handling Satellite Remote Sensing Data
This page outlines application instructions for a License pertaining to Use of Satellite Remote Sensing Instruments and a Certification of Persons Handling Satellite Remote Sensing Data based on the Act on Ensuring Appropriate Handling of Satellite Remote Sensing Data (Act No. 77 of November 16, 2016; hereafter referred to as the "Act" or the "Remote Sensing Data Act").
Please prepare and submit an application and related documents in accordance with the following information if you are considering to apply for a license or a certification based on the Act.
1. The Text of the Act and Related Regulations and Documents
- Act on Ensuring Appropriate Handling of Satellite Remote Sensing Data(PDF:382KB)
- Order for Enforcement of the Act on Ensuring Appropriate Handling of Satellite Remote Sensing Data(PDF:270KB)
- Regulation for Enforcement of the Act on Ensuring Appropriate Handling of Satellite Remote Sensing Data(hereafter referred to as the "Enforcement Regulation")(PDF:474KB)
- Application Manuals for Act on Ensuring Appropriate Handling of Satellite Remote Sensing Data(PDF:328KB)
- Guidelines on Measures, etc. under Act on Ensuring Appropriate Handling of Satellite Remote Sensing Data(PDF:318KB)
- Click here to download the application forms
2. Application for the Act
(1) Application Submission
The application submission has started since August 15, 2017.
(2) Necessary Documents
Please submit an application and related documents in accordance with the contents after confirming the Act and related regulation and documents.
(3) Standard Period of Examination
It takes nominally two months.
(4) Address for Application Submission
ATTN: Remote Sensing Data Act Group, National Space Policy Secretariat, Cabinet Office, Kasumigaseki Tokyu Bldg. 16th Floor, 3-7-1 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0013, Japan
※Office hours: 9:30 - 12:00 or 13:00 - 17:00 of Monday to Friday
(Except for year-end and new year’s holidays (December 29 to January 3) and the holidays provided by the Act on National Holidays)
※In case of the post, please superscribe in red the submission description to an envelope so that we can find the contents.
3. Contact Information
Remote Sensing Data Act Group, National Space Policy Secretariat, Cabinet Office
Phone number: +81-3-6205-7073
※Office hours: 9:30 - 12:00 or 13:00 - 17:00 of Monday to Friday
(Except for year-end and new year’s holidays (December 29 to January 3) and the holidays provided by the Act on National Holidays)
※Please contact us by telephone for the group e-mail address of the Remote Sensing Data Act.
4. Application Forms
Application for a License pertaining to Use of Satellite Remote Sensing Instruments
| Form | Related Article (Enforcement Regulation) |
Contents of Application | PDF Format (Only in Japanese) |
MS-Word Format (Only in Japanese) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Form 1 | Article 4 | Application for License | No.1(PDF Format:123KB) |
No.1(MS-Word Format:38KB) |
| Form 3 | Article 9 | Application for Permission for Change | No.3(PDF Format:105KB) |
No.3(MS-Word Format:39KB) |
| Form 4 | Article 9 | Notification of Change of Satellite Remote Sensing Instruments User (Minor changes such as names, etc.) | No.4(PDF Format:125KB) |
No.4(MS-Word Format:35KB) |
| Form 5 | Article 12 | Notification of Fault, etc. | No.5(PDF Format:103KB) |
No.5(MS-Word Format:34KB) |
| Form 6 | Article 14 | Application for Authorization of Transfer and Acquisition | No.6(PDF Format:103KB) |
No.6(MS-Word Format:35KB) |
| Form 7 | Article 14 | Notification of Transfer | No.7(PDF Format:104KB) |
No.7(MS-Word Format:34KB) |
| Form 8 | Article 14 | Application for Authorization of Merger | No.8(PDF Format:105KB) |
No.8(MS-Word Format:34KB) |
| Form 9 | Article 14 | Application for Authorization of Corporation Split | No.9(PDF Format:104KB) |
No.9(MS-Word Format:34KB) |
| Form 10 | Article 15 | Notification of Death | No.10(PDF Format:98KB) |
No.10(MS-Word Format:34KB) |
| Form 11 | Article 16 | Notification of Termination Measure | No.11(PDF Format:100KB) |
No.11(MS-Word Format:34KB) |
| Form 12 | Article 18 | Notification of Dissolution | No.12(PDF Format:100KB) |
No.12(MS-Word Format:34KB) |
Application for a Certification of Persons Handling Satellite Remote Sensing Data
| Form | Related Article (Enforcement Regulation) |
Contents of Application | PDF Format (Only in Japanese) |
MS-Word Format (Only in Japanese) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Form 13 | Article 23 | Application for Certification | No.13(PDF Format:108KB) |
No.13(MS-Word Format:35KB) |
| Form 15 | Article 27 | Application for Renewal of Certification | No.15(PDF Format:110KB) |
No.15(MS-Word Format:36KB) |
| Form 16 | Article 28 | Application for Reissuance of License Certificate | No.16(PDF Format:97KB) |
No.16(MS-Word Format:33KB) |
| Form 17 | Article 29 | Application for Authorization of Change | No.17(PDF Format:111KB) |
No.17(MS-Word Format:37KB) |
| Form 18 | Article 29 | Notification of Change of Person Handling Satellite Remote Sensing Data (Minor changes such as names, etc.) | No.18(PDF Format:102KB) |
No.18(MS-Word Format:34KB) |