We will seek opinions on a draft order to amend part of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Public Personal Authentication Act.

Published:: Jan 26, 2024

1. Subject of public comment

Draft Order to Partially Amend the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Act on Certification Business of the local governments Information Systems Institute in Relation to Electronic Signatures, etc.

2. Subject of opinion solicitation

In the draft order, necessary amendments are planned to be made to the digital society (decided by the Cabinet on June 9, 2023) for the realization of the Priority plan and the private authentication App, which is scheduled to start operation in fiscal 2024 based on the "Priority plan Process Chart for the Realization of the digital society" (decided by the Cabinet on June 9, 2017).
Therefore, in order to receive opinions from a wide range of people, we will invite public opinions as follows.

3. How to obtain materials

4. Method and destination for submission of opinions

General contact point for e-government e-Gov Public Comment: Public comment on the draft order to amend part of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Public Personal Authentication Act Please fill out the opinion submission form with your postal code, name and address (in the case of a corporation or organization, its name, the name of its representative, and the location of its main office), and contact information (phone number or e-mail address), and submit it by the deadline for submission of opinions.

* 1 Please be sure to write your opinions in Japanese.
* 2. Due to the possibility of problems such as temporary connection failures due to concentration of access, please submit the application form well before the deadline. As a general rule, submission of opinions after the acceptance period is not allowed for any reason (excluding cases where there are obvious factors at the e-Gov side such as a large-scale system failure).

5. Period for submission of comments

From January 26, 2024 (Friday) to February 29, 2024 (Thursday)

6. Points to be noted

The submitted opinions will be posted on the general contact point for e-government (e-Gov), and will be distributed or made available for viewing by the Digital Agency Social Common Function Group.
The name (in the case of a corporation or organization, its name and the names of its representative and contact person), address (location), telephone number, and e-mail address entered will be used for communication and confirmation in the event that there are any unclear points in the content of the submitted opinion.
In addition, the name of the person who submitted the opinion (in the case of a corporation or organization, limited to its name and the name of its representative, and not including the name of the person who submitted the opinion as an individual) may be announced together with the submitted opinion. In the case of a corporation or organization, if you wish to keep the name and the name of the representative anonymous, please enter such fact (the name of the person in charge of communication will not be announced).
Please note that we will not be able to respond to individual opinions.
Opinions submitted after the end of the opinion submission period and opinions other than draft orders, etc. subject to opinion solicitation will not be treated as submitted opinions.
The submitted opinions may be organized and summarized as necessary at the time of public notice of the results. In that case, the submitted opinions will be provided at the contact point and made available for viewing.
If there is a risk of harming the interests of a third party by publicly announcing or publicizing the submitted opinion, or if there are other justifiable grounds, we may publicly announce or publicize the submitted opinion except for all or part of the submitted opinion.