Japan’s Ministry of the Environment has announced the fourth session of a joint advisory panel examining the performance of the country’s amended fluorocarbon management law, scheduled for Friday, 26 June 2026.
The joint body combines the Central Environment Council’s Fluorocarbon Countermeasures Subcommittee with a fluorocarbon-focused working group sitting under a chemical policy subcommittee of the Industrial Structure Council. The panel was established to assess implementation outcomes and consider whether further policy measures are warranted, following the five-year anniversary — reached at end-March 2025 — of enforcement of the 2019 amendment to the Act on Rational Use and Proper Management of Fluorocarbons. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry is listed as a co-convenor.
The meeting will be held in a hybrid in-person/online format. Public observation is available via a YouTube livestream on the Ministry of the Environment’s Global Warming Countermeasures Division channel. Presentation materials will be posted to the Ministry’s website ahead of the session.
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- 中央環境審議会 地球環境部会 フルオロカーボン対策小委員会 産業構造審議会 保安・消費生活用製品安全分科会 化学物質政策小委員会 フロン類対策ワーキンググループ 合同会議（第４回）の開催について環境省 報道発表, date not specified in source