The Liberal Democratic Party held a joint session on the 16th to approve the contents of the bill over a new bill to strengthen economic security.
The government will make a cabinet decision next week and plan to pass it in the current Diet session.
The Liberal Democratic Party held a joint session on economic security on the 16th and approved the contents of the bill.
The bill consists of four pillars, empowering the country to investigate the sources of companies and military technology so that important products such as semiconductors and pharmaceuticals that are indispensable to people's lives can be stably supplied. It includes the introduction of a system that allows some of the patent application contents to be kept private.
On the other hand, there were concerns from the business community and others that the penalties for maintaining the effectiveness of the system might be a constraint on corporate activities.
Of these, when the government investigated the suppliers of companies for the stable supply of important products, the government was making adjustments to impose penalties on companies that did not respond to the report, but the government should report it. Has been revised to "Obligation to make efforts".
The government plans to pass the bill in the current Diet session by a cabinet decision next week.
Former Secretary General of the Liberal Democratic Party Amari “Conventional Challenges”
Former Secretary-General Amari, who chairs the Liberal Democratic Party's Economic Security Countermeasures Headquarters, told reporters, "This is an item that has been considered an issue, but has not been dealt with easily, so the relationship between the economy and security in this bill. I think we were able to sort out the above. The environment has changed dramatically, so we need to continue to update it according to the times. "