Article 38-8Medium-Term Objectives for Processes Related to Individual Number Cards
第三十八条の八（個人番号カード関係事務に係る中期目標）
With regard to the implementation of processes related to Individual Number Cards (meaning the processes the Agency handles pursuant to the provisions of Article 16-2, Article 17, paragraph (3), Article 18-2, paragraphs (2), (3), (8) and (10) through (13), and Article 18-5, paragraph (2), and the certification processes provided for in Article 39, paragraph (1) of the Public Personal Authentication Act; the same applies hereinafter in this Article through Article 38-12), the competent minister must establish objectives concerning business operations that the Agency is to achieve over a period of three years or more and five years or less (hereinafter referred to as the "medium-term objectives"), give instructions on them to the Agency, and make them public. The same applies when the competent minister has changed them.
The medium-term objectives are to specifically provide for the following matters:
中期目標においては、次に掲げる事項について具体的に定めるものとする。
the period of the medium-term objectives (meaning the period specified by the competent minister within the scope of the period referred to in the preceding paragraph; the same applies in Article 38-11, paragraph (1), items (ii) and (iii));
中期目標の期間（前項の期間の範囲内で主務大臣が定める期間をいう。第三十八条の十一第一項第二号及び第三号において同じ。）
matters concerning the improvement of the quality of operations pertaining to processes related to Individual Number Cards;
個人番号カード関係事務に係る業務の質の向上に関する事項
matters concerning the optimization of business operations pertaining to processes related to Individual Number Cards; and
個人番号カード関係事務に係る業務運営の効率化に関する事項
other important matters concerning business operations pertaining to processes related to Individual Number Cards.
その他個人番号カード関係事務に係る業務運営に関する重要事項