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New regulation of use of highly-concentrated PCB electricity workpiece

Occupied time limit of use of PCB electricity workpiece highly-concentrated by laws and ordinances revision,
Disposal in period of highly-concentrated PCB waste was decided.


※5.14, supplementary provisions Paragraph 2 of departmental order Article 19 to determine technical standard about electric equipment

Conventional regulation, continuation and addition (underline part)
Electricity machine appliance using insulating oil including polychlorinated biphenyl and electric wire (OF cable) must not provide equipment 14 of Article 19 in electric circuit.

Revision
Departmental order supplementary provisions Paragraph 2: It is the ban on use for each area of notification from the next day of time limit (note) of notification
(note) time limit every area of notification:
For disposal of use of PCB product and PCB waste in time limit (Ministry of the Environment, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)
 ・Kitakyusyu business area: Until transformer, condenser March 31, 2018
 ・Kitakyusyu, Osaka, Toyota business area: Until March 31, 2021 such as stabilizer and pollutant (the end of the disposal period)
As for the above, the use of highly-concentrated PCB electricity workpiece in Kitakyusyu business area, provisional measure (use of old trade and industry departmental order No. 70 continuation) is prohibited from (April 1) on the next day of March 31, 2018, and 14 of departmental order Article 19 is applied. It is made regulation (electric report rule abolition report of relationships, PCB special measures law report) as PCB waste afterward.

※ You have each manufacturer confirm, or please refer to homepage of Japan Electrical Manufacturers' Association for "electric workpiece using highly-concentrated PCB".