May 11, 2022 Solicitation of Opinions on Draft Official Directive for Partial Revision of Examination Standards Related to the Radio Act

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) drafted an official directive for the partial revision of the Examination Standards related to the Radio Act (MIC Directive No. 67 of 2001) in order to make the former site of the FM broadcasting station (77.1MHz and 78.8MHz) of the Open University of Japan available to set up a temporary broadcasting station for disaster relief and for other purposes.
Accordingly, MIC will solicit opinions on the draft official directive from Thursday, May 12 through Friday, June 10, 2022.

1. Outline of revision

In March 2022, the Study Subcommittee on Utilization Measures for Broadcast Frequencies (chaired by ITO Susumu, part-time professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science) released the Summary Report on Utilization Measures for Broadcast Frequencies (regarding the former terrestrial broadcasting site of the Open University of Japan and V-Low band). Based on this report, MIC will partially revise the Examination Standards related to the Radio Act in order to make the former site of the FM broadcasting station (77.1MHz and 78.8MHz) of the Open University of Japan available to set up a temporary broadcasting station for disaster relief and for other purposes.

2. Subject of solicitation of opinions

Draft of an official directive for the partial revision of the Examination Standards related to the Radio Act

3. Deadline for submission of opinions

From Thursday, May 12 through Friday, June 10, 2022

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  Opinions submitted by postal mail must also arrive no later than this deadline.

4. Future schedule

MIC will promptly revise the official directive based on the submitted opinions.

5. How to obtain reference information

MIC will make the reference information available for viewing and obtaining copies at the following contact point and also posted on the public comment page of the e-Gov (https://www.e-gov.go.jp/en/ ).

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  The published material is in Japanese only.