Olympics / Parallel Archive all documents prepared by the Organizing Committee to submit a draft bylaw 18:11 on February 12

The Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly's regular meeting, which will be held this month, will be held by some delegations of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly to request the storage of all documents prepared by the Organizing Committee so that the expenses of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics can be verified even after the Games. Will be submitted to.

It is Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly First Party and Komeito who submit the regulations.

The outline of the proposed ordinance was set out on the board of the Parliamentary Steering Committee meeting held on the 12th. The purpose of the ordinance is to create an environment where the use of expenses can be verified in the future even after the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.

For this reason, it is required to keep all documents related to the Games held by the Organizing Committee, including important documents related to expenses and records of negotiations with the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Specifically, it states, "We must strive to take the necessary steps to properly store and succeed all documents and electromagnetic records created and obtained by staff of the Organizing Committee."

It also requires the capital to be involved in keeping documents of the Organizing Committee, stating that "the city will provide necessary guidance and coordination to the Organizing Committee."

The two factions will submit their proposed ordinances to a regular meeting of the city council, which will open on the 19th of this month.

A member of the Diet submitting the ordinance proposal: "Securing documents"

Representative Yuto Ito of the "Tomin First Association" submitting the proposed regulations, told reporters, "I want to make an ordinance so that important documents will not be dissipated or discarded. I've heard that the Organizing Committee and others are trying to decide how much to keep, but these are, so to speak, an organization-to-organization relationship, so we want to ensure that all of them are kept under the ordinance. "

Aim of submission of regulations

The Games Organizing Committee is a public interest incorporated foundation established to prepare and operate the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, and will be dissolved when all operations are completed after the Games.

In December of last year, the Organizing Committee announced a policy stating that documents should be appropriately stored in accordance with laws and regulations, and is considering ways to properly store and manage the documents even after dissolution.

However, due to relevant laws, the retention period of important materials such as accounting books is 10 years after liquidation after dissolution ends.

For this reason, some members of the metropolitan assembly have raised concerns that documents may be destroyed after the storage period has expired.

Regarding the Olympic documents, after the 1998 Nagano Olympics, it became clear that there was a large amount of money that could not be used during the invitation process, and the verification of the bid book was hampered by the absence of the account book of the invitation committee. Was.

In light of these past examples, the purpose of this ordinance is to prevent a situation in which the use of taxes cannot be verified in the Tokyo Games in the future.

The tournament expenses include capital taxes

The total cost of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games is currently expected to be ¥ 1.350 trillion, and Tokyo will bear ¥ 597.5 billion.

Of this amount, 371.5 billion yen will be allocated to the provision of temporary facilities and security measures conducted by the Organizing Committee.

The composition of the Tokyo Metropolitan Committee will include a huge amount of taxes on the projects conducted by the Organizing Committee, and the Metropolitan Council has said that it is necessary to securely store the documents held by the Organizing Committee.