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PRESS RELEASE

October 2, 2002
Fujitsu General Limited
(NO.02-Y03-18)

Fiscal 2001 Environmental Accounting Results

Our company introduced environmental accounting in fiscal 1999 to provide quantitative assessments of the costs and effects of environmental protection activities.

As a result of collecting the actual results of Fujitsu General Limited and 13 main affiliated companies in Japan and overseas, the total cost for the environmental protection was approximately 1.4 billion yen while the effect through the environmental protection measures was approximately 1.7 billion yen.

Calculation method of environmental accounting

The fiscal 2001 environmental accounting of our company was calculated in accordance with the "Environmental Accounting Guidelines 2002" of Japan's Ministry of the Environment with regard to the criteria and classification of the environmental protection cost and with addition of our own criteria. As a result, the following changes have been made in the cost calculation method.

With respect to the environmental protection cost, the calculation of depreciation was made by changing the method to the calculation according to the number of depreciation months for the fiscal year based on the depreciation expense per month in fiscal 2001 for enhancing the accuracy, although the calculation was made based on the fixed amount of 5 year write-off in fiscal 2000, so that the cost by investment may be matched with the period of accrued effect.

In the field of economic effect through environmental protection measures, the effect continuation period of substantial effect has been changed. In fiscal 2000, the period for the items created by capital investment was 3 years but it was changed to 5 years in fiscal 2001. Also, the period for the items created by the measures not through capital investment was 1 year in fiscal 2000 but it was changed and unified to 5 years in fiscal 2001 as the average period of technological innovation was reviewed.

As regards to economic effect, the profit and cost reduction through environmental protection measures as "substantial effects" are stated. In addition, "supposed effect" for contributing to the continuous improvement of corporate profit through environmental protection activities and corporate image enhancement and "risk avoidance effect" through pollution prevention measures are stated.

Environmental protection costs

The outline of the environmental protection cost in fiscal 2001 is as follows:

  1. The "management activity cost" has considerably decreased to 39% over last year as a result of the integration on environmental management system (ISO14001) between the head office and 5 domestic manufacturing subsidiaries aiming at the efficient operation of environmental management activities as an environmentally advanced corporate.
  2. The stress has been focused on the development of environmentally-friendly products, such as the development of energy saving models of refrigerators, air conditioners and resource saving models of audio-visual equipment, and the "R&D cost" has been kept nearly equal to last year (102%) and the continuous research and development are progressing.
  3. As a result of having had positively tackled the pollution prevention, ozone layer protection measures and global worming suppression up until fiscal 2000, the main environmental investments have wound up, so that out of the costs in business operations, the "pollution cost" and "global environmental protection cost" decreased to 59% and 78% respectively over last year.

Economic effects through environmental protection measure

The following main economic effects have been acquired through the environmental protection measures as "supposed effect".

  1. The effects of facility maintenance management of electric household appliance recycling business (by Fuji Ecocycle Ltd.), which started in full scale last year, have been additionally stated.
  2. The economic effects have increased to 153% over last year by efficient maintenance management activity through the integration on ISO14001 between the head office and 5 domestic manufacturing subsidiaries.

Environmental protection effects

Environmental protection effects are shown by reduction of the energy used in business operations through environmental measures and recycled volume of valuables.

Future activities

We will further strengthen the environmental activities making use of the results of costs and effects of environmental accounting by department.
We will also make efforts to develop the environmentally-friendly products and promote environmental harmonization in global market utilizing the technical know-how acquired by technical departments in addition to the accumulated technology through the electric household appliance recycling business started in full scale in April last year.
With regard to the environmental accounting, we will further review the calculation standard and endeavor to disclose information of the achievement through environmental activities while aiming to enrich the contents and enhance the accuracy.

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Results of Costs and Effects

Environmental protection costs

(Unit: Million Yen)

Item Cost Year-to-year
(1) Costs in business operations
(Environmental protection costs for suppressing environmental load generated in business operations by manufacturing and service activities)
683 88%
Breakdown (1) Pollution protection costs 62 57%
(2) Environmental protection costs 356 78%
(3) Resource recycling costs 265 127%
(2) Upstream/downstream costs
(Costs of lowering upstream/downstream environmental burden of manufacturing and service activities)
252 175%
(3) Management activity costs
(Management-related environmental protection costs)
75 39%
(4) R/D costs
(Environmental protection costs for R/D activities)
367 102%
(5) Social activities costs
(Environmental protection costs for social activities)
13 118%
(6) Environmental clean-up costs
(Costs of environmental clean-up operations)
18 138%
Total 1,408 94%

Economic effects through environmental protection measures

(Unit: Million Yen)

Item Contents Effect
(1) Reduction effect/
Sales of valuables
Reduction of paper, water, energy, waste/sales profit 147
(2) Reduction of materials for production Reduction of materials by energy- saving design 556
Others 365
(3) Supposed effect Effects by proper maintenance management of environmental protection facilities 78
Others 178
(4) Risk avoidance effect Avoidance of operation loss of offices due to non-compliance of laws and regulations 408
Total 1,732

Trends of environmental protection costs and economic effects

(Unit: Million Yen)

Fiscal year Amount
(1) Trends in costs FY2001 1,408
FY2000 1,499
FY1999 1,105
(2) Trends in economic effects FY2001 1,732
FY2000 1,838
FY1999 1,477

Environmental protection effects

Item Effect
(1) Reduction in use (1) Reduction in paper use 5t
(2) Reduction in water use 3,750m³
(3) Reduction in electricity use 404 MWh
(4) Reduction in LPG use 2t
(5) Reduction in heavy oil use 10m³
(2) Recycling (1) Recycling of copper 92t
(2) Recycling of aluminum 178t
(3) Recycling of iron 2,514t
(4) Recycling of paper 335t

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