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Regulation for Enforcement of the Act on Protection of Names of Specific Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Products and Foodstuff (No. 58).

Country/Territory
Japan
Document type
Regulation
Date
2015
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Agricultural & rural development, Food & nutrition, Fisheries, Forestry
Keyword
Agricultural commodities Consumer protection Registration Enforcement/compliance Fish products Packaging/labelling Non-timber products
Geographical area
Asia, Asia and the Pacific, Eastern Asia, North Pacific, North-West Pacific
Entry into force notes
This Ministerial Order enters into force on 1 June 2015.
Abstract

The group provided by Order of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, referred to in Article 2, paragraph (5) of the Act on Protection of Names of Specific Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Products and Foodstuff, is to be a group that meets the following requirements: i) a group comprised of producers as direct or indirect members (for an organization without legal personality, limited to those which provide for a representative or administrator and those which provide to the effect that the group may not deny enrollment to any person eligible to become a member nor impose any conditions on enrollment more stringent than those imposed on existing members without a just cause, based on laws or regulations or articles of incorporation or other basic contract provisions); and ii) if a group falls under a case provided in items of Article 21 (limited to a case where the group is of a foreign country) and the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries orders the group to change the specifications or the production process management rules, and to take any necessary measures, a group that complies with that order.

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References - Legislation

Implements

Act on Protection of the Names of Specified Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Products and Foodstuffs (Act No. 84).

Legislation | Japan | 2014

Keyword: Agricultural commodities, Consumer protection, Registration, Enforcement/compliance, Offences/penalties, Fish products, Packaging/labelling, Non-timber products

Source: FAO, FAOLEX