Regulation for Enforcement of the Act on Protection of Names of Specific Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Products and Foodstuff (No. 58).

The group provided by Order of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, referred to in Article 2, paragraph (5) of the Act on Protection of Names of Specific Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Products and Foodstuff, is to be a group that meets the following requirements: i) a group comprised of producers as direct or indirect members (for an organization without legal personality, limited to those which provide for a representative or administrator and those which provide to the effect that the group may not deny enrollment to any person eligible to become a member nor impose any conditions on enrollment more stringent than those imposed on existing members without a just cause, based on laws or regulations or articles of incorporation or other basic contract provisions); and ii) if a group falls under a case provided in items of Article 21 (limited to a case where the group is of a foreign country) and the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries orders the group to change the specifications or the production process management rules, and to take any necessary measures, a group that complies with that order.