No. 19362
Promulgation Date 2023-04-18
Ministry of Environment
ALL
CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1 (Purpose)
Article 2 (Definitions)
Article 3 (Facilities Subject to this Act)
Article 4 (Responsibilities of State)
Article 5 (Relationship with Other Statutes and Right to Make Claims)
CHAPTER II COMPENSATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE
Article 6 (Business Owners’ No-Fault Liability for Environmental Damage)
Article 7 (Liability Cap for Compensation)
Article 8 (Business Owners’ Duty to Report)
Article 9 (Presumption of Causal Relationship)
Article 10 (Joint and Several Liability)
Article 11 (Claims for Reimbursement)
Article 12 (Allocation of Liability)
Article 13 (Methods of Compensation)
Article 14 (Requests to Reimburse for Expenses for Reinstatement)
Article 15 (Right to Request Information)
Article 16 (Committee on Policies for Relief from Environmental Damage)
CHAPTER III PURCHASE OF INSURANCE TO COMPENSATE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE
Article 17 (Obligation to Purchase Environmental Liability Insurance)
Article 18 (Insurers)
Article 19 (Operation and Management of Environmental Liability Insurance)
Article 20 (Advance Payment of Some of Insurance Proceeds)
Article 20-2 (Investigation of Damage and Assessment of Damages)
Article 21 (Preferential Payment Made to Holders of Right to Claim Compensation for Damage)
Article 22 (Re-insurance Business)
CHAPTER IV RELIEF FROM ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE
Article 23 (Relief from Environmental Damage)
Article 24 (Environmental Damage Relief Council)
Article 25 (Filing Applications for Relief Money and Payment thereof)
Article 26 (Restrictions on Payment of Relief Money)
Article 27 (Scope of Bereaved Family Members and Priority Order)
Article 28 (Making Requests for Examinations)
Article 29 (Relief Money Review Committee)
Article 30 (Review of, and Decisions on, Requests for Examinations)
Article 31 (Exclusion of, Challenge to, or Recusal of, Members of Review Committee)
Article 32 (Making Requests for Re-Examination)
Article 33 (Review of, and Adjudication on, Requests for Re-examination)
Article 34 (Compensation for Damage and Relationship with Other Relief)
Article 35 (Account for Relief from Environmental Damage)
Article 36 (Uses of Relief Account)
Article 37 (Management and Operation of Relief Account)
CHAPTER V SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS
Article 38 (Building and Operation of Computer System)
Article 38-2 (Fact-Finding Survey on Facilities)
Article 39 (Submission of Data, Inspections, and Reporting)
Article 40 (Scientific Surveys and Research)
Article 41 (Subsidization)
Article 42 (Support for Litigation to Socially Disadvantaged Classes)
Article 43 (Administrative Dispositions)
Article 44 (Delegation and Entrustment of Authority)
Article 45 (Information Users’ Obligation)
Article 46 (Legal Fiction as Public Officials in Application of Penalty Provisions)
CHAPTER VI PENALTY PROVISIONS
Article 47 (Penalty Provisions)
Article 48 (Joint Penalty Provisions)
Article 49 (Administrative Fines)
ADDENDUM <Act No. 12949, Dec. 31, 2014>
ADDENDA <Act No. 13886, Jan. 27, 2016>
ADDENDA <Act No. 14532, Jan. 17, 2017>
ADDENDA <Act No. 15201, Dec. 12, 2017>
ADDENDA <Act No. 17182, Mar. 31, 2020>
ADDENDUM <Act No. 17326, May 26, 2020>
ADDENDA <Act No. 19362, Apr. 18, 2023>