The Japanese “Act on the Evaluation of Chemical Substances and Regulation of Their Manufacture, etc. (Act No. 117 of 1973)” is better known as the “Chemical Substance Control Law” (CSCL), which is pronounced as “Kashinho” in Japanese. Since its enactment in 1973, it has imposed strict pre-marketing evaluation of chemical substances to prevent environmental pollution and control chemical risks to human health, plants and animals. It has been amended 4 times in 1986, 2003， 2009 and 2017.

The 2017 Amendment was promulgated on June 7, 2017 and set to take effect starting from January 1, 2019.

Contents:

• Chapter I General provisions (Articles 1 & 2)

• Chapter II Evaluation and regulation concerning New Chemical Substances (Articles 3 to 7)

• Chapter III Notification for General Chemical Substances, etc. (Article 8.1 & 8.2)

• Chapter IV Measures concerning Priority Assessment Chemical Substances (Articles 9 to 12)

• Chapter V Regulations, etc. concerning Class I Specified Chemical Substances

• Section 1 Measures concerning the Monitoring Chemical Substances (Articles 13 to 16)

• Section 2 Regulations concerning Class I Specified Chemical Substances (Articles 17 to 34)

• Chapter VI Regulations concerning Class II Specified Chemical substances (Articles 35 to 37)

• Chapter VII Miscellaneous provisions (Articles 38 to 56)

• Chapter VIII Penal provisions (Articles 57 to 63)

• Supplementary provisions