The ACCJ keeps a close watch on regulatory developments affecting member business interests and offers specific comments and recommendations on draft laws, ordinances, and policy reports through the Japanese government's public notification and comment system. The system allows interested parties such as individuals, companies, and organizations to provide their written comments on proposed policy changes before they become law. The ACCJ actively lobbied for this system and hopes to contribute to its success. ACCJ committees closely monitor ministry websites, coordinate the comment submission process, work with the ACCJ staff to arrange meetings between ACCJ members and government representatives, and track issues through the remainder of the policy process.

For more information on ACCJ public comment submissions, please contact the External Affairs Department at (03) 3433-7358.

You can also read Public Comments from 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004.

Public Comments

2010-07-26: ACCJ Public Comment on Development of the NEI Plan 2010-07-12: ACCJ Public Comment to the FSA on 2011 Tax Reform Proposal (Japanese) 2010-06-30: ACCJ Public Comment to the MLHW on 2011 Tax Reform Proposal (Japanese) 2010-06-14: ACCJ Public Comment to the CAO on 2011 Tax Reform Proposal (Japanese) 2010-05-25: ACCJ Public Comment to the FSA on Implementing Guidelines Under the Money Lending Business Law (Japanese) 2010-05-25: ACCJ Public Comment to METI on the Outline of the Industrial Structure Vision (Japanese) 2010-04-26: ACCJ Insurance Committee Public Comment to the FSA on Kyosai (Japanese) 2010-04-12: ACCJ Public Comment to the Consumer Affairs Agency on System for Collective Relief Related to Consumer Incidents (Japanese) 2010-04-09: ACCJ Public Comments to the Cabinet Secretariat on National IT Strategy (Japanese) 2010-03-10: ACCJ Public Comments on Smart Computing Study Group Interim Report (Japanese) 2010-02-26: ACCJ Public Comment to the FSA on the Announcement of the Cabinet Ordinance (draft) Partially Revising Enforcement Regulations Concerning the Insurance Business Act (Japanese) 2010-02-15: ACCJ Public Comment on the Intellectual Property Promotion Plan (Japanese) 2010-01-26: ACCJ Public Comments Concerning Proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement (English) 2010-01-20: ACCJ Public Comment on Postal Reform (Joint PC with 12 global organizations) (Japanese)

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