Flows of Imported Products with JAS Marks

1. Grading by Registered Japanese Certifying Bodies or Registered

Overseas Certifying Bodies

Flow

Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

a
Application Registration
Registered Certifying Body
Registered Overseas Certifying Body

b. Certification

c. Overseas Country
Producers or Manufacturers,

Consumers
Importers

Retailers
who ensure that products are Export
produced or manufactured in
accordance with JAS
Standards and attach JAS
mark

a. The Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries registers Japanese

Certifying Bodies or Overseas Certifying Bodies.

b. Those Registered Certifying Bodies certify producers, manufacturers and

other business entities of agricultural and forestry products.

c. The certified producers, manufacturers or other business entities produce,

or manufacture products, and attach JAS marks to the products.

2. Labeling of Organic JAS Marks by Importers Certified by Registered

Japanese Certifying Bodies
- The Scheme Applicable Only to Organic Agricultural Products and
Organic Agricultural Processed Foods -
Flow

Minster of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

Application Registration Designation

of
Registered Japanese Certifying Body equivalency

Overseas Country
Export Certified organic
Importers, products under
who Attach overseas standards
organic JAS
mark b. a.
Issuance of certificate Certification

Retailers Overseas Government Third-party

certifying body under
overseas system
Consumers

a. Third party certifiers under legislations of overseas countries whose

organic rules and standards Japan approved as equivalent certify organic
foods in accordance with the organic rules and standards of those countries.

b. Government agencies or quasi-governmental organizations of the

countries with organic equivalency issue export certificates to certify the
organic foods produced or manufactured in the countries were graded in
accordance with the organic system of the countries.

c. Importers certified by Registered Japanese Certifying Bodies import

organic foods and relabel the Organic JAS mark to the products in Japan.

Note:
1. Countries whose organic rules and standards Japan approved as
equivalent are provided in Article 37 of the Ministerial Ordinance.

2. The importers authorized to attach the Organic JAS mark to the

products are limited to those who are certified by Registered Japanese
Certifying Bodies in order to guarantee the adequacy of imported organic
foods by:
a). Guidance by the MAFF or Registered Japanese Certifying Bodies to the
 relevant parties in the case of improper labeling; and
b). Management of the importers by Registered Japanese Certifying
Bodies, including keeping grading records.