# 中小企業基本法 / Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Basic Act — 第七条 (Article 7) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-basic-act/art-7. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 中小企業基本法 (Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Basic Act), 昭和三十八年法律第百五十四号 - English title "Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Basic Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第七条 (Article 7)（中小企業者の努力等） — address `art-7` - Text in force since: 2026-01-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-basic-act/art-7 - e-Gov law ID: 338AC0000000154 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第七条（中小企業者の努力等） — Efforts of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-basic-act/art-7 **第一項** 中小企業者は、経済的社会的環境の変化に即応してその事業の成長発展を図るため、自主的にその経営及び取引条件の向上を図るよう努めなければならない。 art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-basic-act/art-7/par-1 A small and medium-sized enterprise must endeavor to voluntarily improve its management and transaction terms, in order to achieve the growth and development of its business by responding promptly to changes in the economic and social environment. machine translation, not official **第二項** 中小企業者の事業の共同化のための組織その他の中小企業に関する団体は、その事業活動を行うに当たつては、中小企業者とともに、基本理念の実現に主体的に取り組むよう努めるものとする。 art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-basic-act/art-7/par-2 Organizations concerning small and medium-sized enterprises, such as organizations for the joint operation of businesses of small and medium-sized enterprises, are to endeavor to proactively work, together with small and medium-sized enterprises, toward the realization of the basic principles when carrying out their business activities. machine translation, not official **第三項** 中小企業者以外の者であつて、その事業に関し中小企業と関係があるものは、国及び地方公共団体が行う中小企業に関する施策の実施について協力するようにしなければならない。 art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-basic-act/art-7/par-3 A person other than a small and medium-sized enterprise that has a relationship with small and medium-sized enterprises in connection with its business must cooperate in the implementation of policies concerning small and medium-sized enterprises carried out by the national government and local governments. machine translation, not official --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 中小企業基本法 — the text in force from 2026-01-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/338AC0000000154/20260101_507AC0000000041), retrieved 2026-11-06 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 中小企業基本法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/822), retrieved 2026-10-07 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch sme-basic-act-20261106T173426-001, translated 2026-11-07 - This site's parser, version 225 — 中小企業基本法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06