Act on Special Measures against Dioxins (No. 105 of 1999).

The purpose of this Act is to ensure protection of the people’s health by providing standards for which policies on dioxins should be based, as it is a known fact that dioxins are substances that pose a risk of having serious influences on human life and health while providing necessary regulations and measures pertaining to polluted soil, and clean-up in order to implement prevention, removal, and other measures concerning environmental pollution caused by dioxins. The text consists of 49 articles divided into 8 Chapters as follows: General provisions (I); Standards on which policies on dioxins should be based (II); Regulations for dioxins emissions (III); Surveys of the status of pollution caused by dioxins (IV); Measures pertaining to soil polluted by dioxins (V); National plan for the reduction of dioxin emissions (VI); Miscellaneous provisions (VII); Penal provisions (VIII).