The ratio of Anritsu products sold outside Japan has been rising year after year and 50% of our products were used by customers outside Japan in 2005. The ratio is forecasted to rise further in the future. Anritsu has R&D and manufacturing sites in the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark and France. Under the circumstances, it is an important issue for management to conduct environmental management globally. As a first step toward this objective, we called for the Global Environment Management Meeting in the fall of 2005 to enlighten participants and instill Anritsu Group's environment philosophy into the members of the Group. As organs of the Global Environment Management Meeting, we at Anritsu Group established the Global WEEE Meeting and the Global RoHS Meeting to cope with EU directives most effectively.
  These meetings are globally promoting compliance with the WEEE Directive for collection and recycling of wastes which was enacted in August 2005 and the RoHS Directive on the content of hazardous substances in products to be enacted in the summer of 2006. At present, measuring instruments and checkweighers - major Anritsu products - are not subject to the RoHS Directive. However, we consider it our corporate social responsibility not to use hazardous substances in our products and it is one of our major environment management priorities to promote on a global basis the development of products that do not use such substances.
  In Japan, we have established an environment management system encompassing all Group Companies to promote environment management. Particularly in 2005, we made efforts to achieve the objectives of countering global warming, cutting wastes, reducing environmental risks and developing environmentally friendly products to lessen the burden on the environment. As for the efforts to counter global warming, the Anritsu Group participated in Team Minus 6%, a national project advocated by the Ministry of the Environment in order to attain the rate of reduction of CO₂ discharge volume promised by the Japanese government under the Kyoto Protocol, and rigorously controlled air conditioning temperature settings in summer and winter. As a result, energy consumption in summer dropped 8% from the year 2004 and leveled off in winter despite unusually cold weather. We will continue to take measures to help prevent global warming and at the same time try to reduce the environmental load by diminishing environmental risks and slashing use of resources.

The Anritsu Group's Environmental Principle

* Participation in Group events for environmental conservation and related activities.
* Supply of Anritsu's products, technology and services to solve global environmental problems.
* Promotion of global environment-protection activities.

Through environmental improvement efforts such as energy conservation in offices, waste management and resource conservation, we support manufacturing of ecological products and expansion of ecological factories.

We supply leading products that are environmentally friendly through their life cycles and that satisfy customers' needs based on performance, quality and price.

While promoting acquisition of the Environment Management System (ISO 14001), we make efforts to improve environmental auditing and increase performance. Through the above, we advertise our management attitudes toward the environment and provide information to stakeholders such as local residents, shareholders and customers.

Promoting observance of legal regulations and reduction of environmental risks, we make efforts to improve the global environment through energy reduction and conservation, waste management and other means in each factory process.

By fully recognizing his or her own role, each employee works to promote environmental improvement and a sustainable society.