Ministry of Information Industry

Ministry of Information Industry (Mil) has established a Working Office to implement key policies. The office has nine working groups and significant staffing. 

New York Times Magazine, April 3,2005, p 37 This report is published every year by the Electronics Information Product Management Department of the Ministry of Information Industry (MB) and China Software Industry Association (CSIA). 

See especially No. 18 Notice to encourage the development of the software industry with preferential policies, issued by the State Council in 2000, and No. 47 File to promote the development of the software industry with specific measures, issued by the Information Office of the State Council in 2002. See also the Government Procurement Law officially put into effect on January 1,2003, which gives clear preferential treatment to domestic companies. The key agencies involved are the Ministry of Information Industry (MB) and the Ministry of Science Technology (MOST). 

During recent years (1997-2003), activities for the MBRU-12 were also stimulated by the exchange of scientific and technical information with companies in the Russian Federation and abroad currently developing concepts of sodium cooled fast reactors. Among them, mentioned should be the Ministry of Atomic Industry of Kazakhstan. 

Economic and Technical Information Center (ETIC), Ministry of Light Industries. 1987. Utilization of Natural Additives in Cosmetics. ETIC, People s Republic of China (in Chinese). Erichsen-Brown, C. 1989. Medicinal and Other Uses of North American Plants. Dover Pubhcations, New York. 

In April 2001, tasks related to the promotion of information exchange and international collaborations were assigned by the Petroleum Energy Center (PEC) to the JCCP. During the last few years, JCCP has continued to promote cooperation and collaboration among the research community interested in oil-related activities including the private companies. Now, JCCP functions under the auspices of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan. 

Figure 8.5. Roadmap from Japanese Ministry of Trade and Industry (information taken from Maruta, (2008)) (1 Yen = US 0,007).

Japan s Ministry of International Trade has published several books with detailed information on biodegradation tests of several hundred chemicals. This information has now also been made available by the Japan Chemical Industry Ecology-Toxicology and Information Center (JETOC) see Chapter 14 for more details on the MITI biodegradation database. The JETOC also published a compendium of mutagenicity test data of several hundred chemicals. The books can be purchased from JETOC and partial data can be found at various websites, such as members.jcom.home.ne.jp/mo-ishidate/. 

If the substance is a new substance, it should be checked whether or not it is manufactured and/or imported in an amount of 1 tonne/year or less or whether it is assumed to be little released into the environment (e.g. intermediate, chemical substance used in the closed system). If the substance falls under either of such categories, simple notification canbe made for it. In simple notification, a chemical substance is reviewed only by information such as chemical name, structural formula and manufacturing flow and, if there is no problem, manufacture and/or import of the substance is permitted. After registration, however, the actual quantities manufactured/imported and uses of the substance which is assumed to be little released into the environment must be reported to the competent authority (the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry). A new substance that does not fall under these categories must normally be notified. 

Contains detailed prescribing information (data sheets) on most medicines available in New Zealand. Designed to be used in conjunction with the New Ethicals Catalogue. Provided free to medical practitioners and chief hospital pharmacists. Also available on subscription. Published every two years as a result of collaboration between the publishers, the Ministry of Health and the pharmaceutical industry. ADIS International, Private Bag 65901, Mairangi Bay, Auckland 10, New Zealand. 

Thanks are due also to Dr. J. M. Jenkins of the same establishment and to Mr. L. E. Medlock of the Nobel s Explosive Company, Stevenston, Scotland, for the provision of photographs included in Chapter I. Among others in various countries who have provided information which has been eagerly incorporated are Drs. G. Blomqvist and S. Lamnevik, Research Institute for National Defense, Stockholm, Sweden Messrs. P. Collvin and T. Hansson, Department of Industry, Eskilstuna. Sweden Dr. R. Siepmann, Ministry of Defense, Bonn, West Germany and Messrs. D Ast, Morisson, and Cazaux, Atelier de Construction, Tarbes, France. 

In response to Allied pressure, industrial representatives consulted with the Germans Foreign Office. The Economics Ministry and the Ministry for Reconstruction [Wiederaufbau] - which was directed in 1920-21 by Walther Rathenau -decided to comply on a limited basis, conceding the Allies the purely military information they demanded in the first questionnaire, in the hope of limiting the loss of commercial data in future. However, the Ministry of National Defense [Reichswehr] took a much harder line, and tiled to keep back information it deemed... 

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