Provisional Translation
| OTO No. | 526 | Classification | MITI-130 |
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| Date of Acceptance | December 26, 1994 | Ministry/Agency Receiving Complaint | Economic Planning Agency |
| Responsible Ministries | Ministry of International Trade and Industry | Related Laws | High Presure Gas Safety Law |
| Complainant | Domestic firm | Exporting Countries | USA |
| Subject | Flexibility in changing the location of inspection and shortening the test period pertaining to imported high-pressure gas | ||
| Details of Measures | 1. Under the High-pressure Gas Control Law, the requirement for prior submission of an import notification is to enable the prefectures to learn about the import of high-pressure gases beforehand and to facilitate import inspection of high-pressure gases. Since the import notification contains needed information such as the port of loading, the waybill, and so on and names the port of unloading in advance as much as possible, importers are requested to submit it to the prefectural authorities with authority over the port of unloading. When the port of unloading is not known until immediately prior to unloading, because of circumstances relating to the shipping company, etc., in special cases as in this complaint, the import notification for high-pressure gases can be submitted to the relevant prefectural authorities once the actual port of unloading is determined. However, the complainant was advised that in such cases, clerical processing takes time, since the authorities do not know before hand that the high-pressure gas in question has been imported. Regarding having neighboring prefectures' officials conduct inspection, the complainant was advised that this would mean that inspection takes a very long time and this is therefore inappropriate. Further, having more than one prefecture accept the import notification for the same high-pressure gas means that the prefectures where the gas has not actually been imported into have no way of confirming this fact, and the complainant was advised that this is inappropriate because the prefectures would have no effective way of preventing damage caused by high-pressure gas. 2. The complainant was advised that under the Administrative Procedures Law, the standard processing period for inspection of imported high-pressure gas is 10 days (from acceptance of application for inspection to issuance of the inspection certificate), and that unless there are special circumstances, the inspection certificate is issued within 10 days. |
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| Classification of Processing | 1. Cc 2. D |
Directions | II-a |
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