Environmental Management

The Kubota Group has formulated environment-related rules and regulations based on its internal control system, targeting Kubota Corporation, all of its consolidated subsidiaries and a part of its affiliated companies accounted for under the equity method that are highly significant in its environmental management.
The rules and regulations are classified as follows:

These rules and regulations are reviewed every year, according to the business environment and revisions of laws and regulations. The latest version of these rules and regulations are available on the Group portal site, allowing employees around the world to refer to them.

In order to practice environmental conservation activities on a global scale, the Kubota Group utilizes the “KUBOTA Ecology Data E-System” (KEDES) to collect environmental data, which includes information from our business sites on their energy usage, amounts of generated and discharged waste, water usage, and VOC emissions, etc.
“KEDES” is a system that collectively manages environmental data at global business sites. Staffs at each business site register monthly environmental data, which is used for target management of their own site. The Environmental Protection Department aggregates and analyzes the data, and uses it for reporting inside and outside the group. The boundary of the environmental data aggregation covers Kubota Corporation and all (100%) of its consolidated subsidiaries.

Each year, the Environmental Protection Department conducts an environmental audit that incorporates a document audit targeting all production sites, service sites, offices, and construction and maintenance management departments in Japan, as well as overseas group production sites.
Moreover, in addition to the environmental audit by the Environmental Protection Department, annual internal environmental audits are conducted at production sites. Through these means, and by taking the initiative to self-check the status of environmental management, every effort is being made to further improve management levels.
All of the audit results are reported to the President and management at the Company-wide Risk Management Committee in accordance with the company-wide internal control system.

The list includes non-production sites.

LRQA: LRQA Limited(U.K.)
DNV: DNV Certification B.V.(Netherlands）
JUSE: Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers ISO Center
ICJ: Intertek Certification Japan Limited
JICQA: JIC Quality Assurance Ltd. (Japan)
JSA: Japanese Standards Association
JQA: Japan Quality Assurance Organization
MSA: Management System Assessment Center (Japan)
JCQA: Japan Chemical Quality Assurance Ltd
MASCI: Management System Certification Institute (Thailand)(Thailand)
SGS(U.S.): Systems & Services Certification，a Division of SGS North America Inc.(U.S.)
BSI: BSI Assurance UK Limited(U.K.)
SGS: SGS United Kingdom Limited(U.K.)
BV: Bureau Veritas Certification Holding SAS - UK Branch(U.K.)
Ínspect: Ínspect Uluslarasi Beglgelendirme ve Gözetim Hiz. Tic. Ltd. Şti.
CCSC: China Classification Society Certification Co.,Ltd(China)
TÜV: TÜV SÜD South Asia Private Limmited,Mumbai(India)
EGAC: Egyptian Accreditation Council(India)
BV(France): Bureau Veritas Certification France(France)
CQS: Certified Quality Systems Limited(U.K.)

IHK: Industrie- und Handelskammer fur die Pfalz（Germany）