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Scheme of the ETV Project

　Advanced environmental technologies, even though they have reached a practical level and considered to be useful, have not necessarily been pervasive widely because objective assessments on environmental conservation effects, etc., have not been made and end users such as local governments, companies, and consumers cannot use it without anxiety.

　The Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) Project is a project in which third-parties objectively verify the environmental conservation effects, etc., of these advanced technologies that have not spread yet. The ETV Project logo is issued to technologies that have been verified under the ETV Project.

What is “verification”?

• "Verification" means the process by which objective data based on tests, etc., for the environmental conservation effects of an environmental technology, its secondary environmental impacts, etc., are indicated by third parties, who are neither developers nor users of the technology.
• "Verification" differs from "certification," whereby certain evaluation standards are established and then compliance is judged based on those standards.

Implementation system of the project

　The project is implemented based on the “Environmental Technology Verification Project Implementation Guidelines” of that fiscal year, and is operated under two types of systems: the government-sponsored system and the fee-based system.

• Under the government-sponsored system, Verification Applicants bear the costs required for delivery and installation of the target technology at the test facility, operation of the target technology in cases where the verification test is conducted in-situ, and removal and return of the target technology after completion of the test; Ministry of the Environment bears the costs of measuring the environmental conservation effects of the target technology, etc.
• Under the fee-based system (for a technology field where a verification system has been established), in addition to the above costs borne by Verification Applicants, the applicants bear, through the payment of fees, the costs associated with implementation of verification tests (costs arising at Verification Organizations, including costs of measurement and analysis, etc.; personnel costs; costs of supplies; and travel costs).

• Fiscal 2010 ETV Project Implementation System
• Relations of the Organizations of the ETV Project
• Flow of the ETV Project
• Target technology Fields
• Protocols
• Information on the Advisory Committee on the ETV Project