CSR Report 2006/Environmental Accounting:Anritsu Corporation

CSR Report 2006

Editorial Policy

Message from the President

Outline of Reporting Organization

Company Philosophy, Vision and Commitment, and The Anritsu Group Charter of Corporate Behavior

Anritsu Group's CSR

Corporate Governance

CSR Objectives and Results for Fiscal 2005

CSR Objectives for Fiscal 2006

Attaining Customer Satisfaction

Conducting Ethical Company Activities

Disclosing Corporate Information

Managing Information Property

Protecting Human Rights

Valuing Employees

Harmony with Society

Preserving the Global Environment

Anritsu's Activities to Help Preserve The Global Environment

Topics

Environmental Load Mass Balance

Environmental Accounting

Environmental Management Promotion System : Green Procurement/Green Purchasing

Development of Environmentally Conscious Products

Excellent Eco Product

Information Disclosure, Environmental Auditing, and Internal Education and Awareness

Environmental Conservation Activities

Conducting Social Contribution Activity

Glossary

Independent Review and Editor's Note

Questionnaire

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Environmental Accounting

Anritsu has introduced environmental accounting that conforms to guidelines set out by the Japanese Ministry of the Environment in fiscal 2001. This introduction explains how the company strives to make its environment conservation activities more efficient and easier to understand by disclosing information in terms of monetary value as well as physical units.

Achievements for Fiscal 2005

Costs related to environmentally conscious products to cope with EU directives and other environmental laws increased by 5% in fiscal 2005 over the previous fiscal year and doubled over fiscal 2003. Investment for countering global warming rocketed by 33 times due to replacement of an extra-high-voltage substation. Anritsu Group has trebled CO₂ volume reduction in fiscal 2005, compared to fiscal 2004, as a result of the effect of the replacement and the energy-saving activities of Team Minus 6%. In addition, the increase in surveys on hazardous substances contained in products led to an increase of about 60% in green purchasing/procurement costs.

Aggregate scope: Anritsu Group Companies in Japan Period: April 1, 2005 to March 31, 2006 (Figures in [brackets] are the results from FY 2004)

Environment conservation cost					*Effect^1**
Category	Breakdown		Investment amounts (in million yen)	Cost amounts (in million yen)	Economic effect (in million yen)	Volume reduction effect
Business area cost	Pollution prevention cost (risk measures included)		0[1.2]	23.7[23.0]	0[0.5]
	Global environmental conservation cost	Prevention of global warming	40[0]	17.7[12.5]	24.1[7.7]	453(t-CO₂) [133(t-CO₂)]
	Resource circulation cost	Resource recycling /utilization activities		52.0^*2[44.7]	8.3[8.7]	74.3(t)[114(t)] (Reduction of waste by incineration and landfill)^*3
	Resource circulation cost	Waste disposal cost		50.8[57.9]	9.6[7.3]
Upstream/ downstream costs	Green purchase /procurement cost			33.3[20.2]	(25.8^*1 [21.7])	609(t-CO₂)^*1[512(t-CO₂)]
	Design of environmentally conscious products			58.4[55.6]
	Recycling and treatment of products, containers and packaging			3.5[3.4]
Administration cost^*4	Environmental education/manpower training			23.9[29.3]
	Operation and maintenance of EMS and internal audit			100.4[109.2]
	Environmental load monitoring and measurement cost			27.1[27.4]
	Personnel expenses of environmental conservation organization			42.1[36.2]
	Greening and upkeep of greenery			10.0^*4[12.0]
Social activity cost	Support and financial contribution to community groups, environmental conservation bodies, etc.			0.6[1.2]
Social activity cost	Disclosure of information			11.3[13.0]
R&D cost	Research and development to reduce environmental loads			11.4[19.6]
Environmental remediation cost	Cost incurred for dealing with environmental degradation			0[0]
	Total		40[1.2]	466.2[461.9]^*5	42.0[24.1] (25.8[21.7])
	Increase and decrease from previous year		+3233%	+1.0%	+74.5%

*1:	Estimated benefit was abolished in fiscal 2003. Environmental load reducing effect when products are in use was disclosed since fiscal 2005 in parentheses. Reduction of electric power: 1,611 MWh [1,355 MWh]
*2:	Review was done in fiscal 2005 and omitted cost was incorporated.
*3:	Reduction of waste by incineration and landfill: Recycled volume was calculated by subtracting volume incinerated or buried from the total volume of industrial waste generated.
*4:	Errors in fiscal 2004 greening and upkeep of greenery cost were corrected in fiscal 2005.
*5:	Review of 2 and 4 was also conducted for fiscal 2004 and the value for the previous year thus increased from the value in the previous report (441.5 million yen).

Indicator for Pollution Prevention Activities

The graph below shows the ratio of pollution prevention cost to sales that represent the scale of the business. The ratio continued dropping remarkably for the past several years (until fiscal 2004) due to risk measures taken. This indicates that risk management has become possible without incurring any additional cost. As the transition since fiscal 2004 shows, no major decline is estimated for cost or the ratio in the future. The future issue will be to enforce risk measures within a limited cost range without being affected by the size of the business.

Future Activities for Environmental Accounting

This report focused on pollution prevention activities from among our environmental conservation activities, based on the fiscal year results of environmental accounting and accumulated data for the past. We will endeavor to disclose further useful information by developing an index that allows for an easier understanding of our environmental conservation activities in order to make them more efficient.

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