A registered conformity assessment body must establish rules concerning the operation of product inspections (referred to below as "operational rules") and obtain an approval from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare before commencing the operation of product inspections. The same applies when the registered conformity assessment body intends to change the operational rules.
Operational rules must specify the method of conducting product inspections, fees concerning product inspections, and other matters specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds that the operational rules for which the Minister has granted approval referred to in paragraph (1) have become inappropriate for conducting product inspections in a fair manner, the Minister may order the registered conformity assessment body to change the operational rules.
registered conformity assessment body
「登録検査機関」
A corporation registered by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 33, paragraph (1) as a body that carries out product inspections (製品検査).
Defined inArticle 4, paragraph (9)· applies throughout the law
product inspections
「製品検査」
The inspections by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, a prefectural governor or a registered conformity assessment body (登録検査機関) that certain food, additives, apparatus and containers and packages a Cabinet Order (政令) names must pass before they are sold or used in business (Article 25, paragraph (1)), or that may be ordered for products likely to break the rules: further products of a maker whose product was found in breach, imports of the same kind of products made by such a maker, or imports that the conditions where they are produced make likely to be in breach (Article 26, paragraphs (1) to (3)).
Short name set inArticle 29, paragraph (1)
operational rules
「業務規程」
The rules on carrying out product inspections (製品検査) that a registered conformity assessment body (登録検査機関) must set and have approved by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare before it starts that work, and again whenever it changes them.
Short name set inArticle 37, paragraph (1)