Environmental Risk Management - Initiatives to Address PCB Pollution

• Numbers of PCB-filled items registered with JESCO and PCB-containing items already decontaminated

In fiscal 2006, Panasonic completed the early application procedures to commission JESCO, a special governmental corporation dedicated to PCB waste treatment, to decontaminate its PCB-filled transformers and capacitors weighing more than 10 kg and PCB oil. Subsequently, in March 2007, all our group companies in Japan concluded agreements to commission the appropriate treatment of PCB waste with JESCO. We will continue to collaborate with JESCO in the decontamination of such waste.
   As of the end of March 2007, a total of 131 PCB-filled high-pressure capacitors were decontaminated.

Collection and delivery of PCB to JESCO

• * As of March 31, 2007

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• Properly managing PCB waste and purifying contaminated soil
• Treatment of PCB-filled capacitors
• Towards the purification of PCB-contaminated soil