Of the 20 targets set for the year under the Environmental Action Plan, only three remain to be fulfilled. Specifically, despite strategies to cut volumes of volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions and atmospheric emissions of perfluorocarbons (PFCs), production growth rendered some goals unattainable.

Targets that have not yet been achieved and ongoing measures carried over to fiscal 2007.

Based on the results for fiscal 2006, we have reassessed the focus of our measures and reset those targets that have already been met to formulate the 4^th Environmental Action Plan in March 2007. Our annual goals are established with a view to achieving targets for fiscal 2010, with individual objectives also fixed for each manufacturing plant.

In addition, the Company's new targets have been expanded from a former focus on domestic operations to include overseas factories.

Each manufacturing plant implements its own measures toward achieving the plan's targets, in addition to a heightened emphasis on intra-Group activities.

Item		Targets for Fiscal 2006	Results for Fiscal 2006
Environmental management	Enhancing environmental management system	Obtain ISO 14001 multi-site certification for the Murata Group in Japan	Inspection completed in January; switch to multi-site certification at the end of March	Yes
		Establish internal control procedures for environmental costs/results; extend environmental cost management systems to overseas subsidiaries�B	nvestigated, but were unable to establish, internal control procedures During the first half of 2007, Environmental Management Department will formulate proposals to submit to operational sites Extension to overseas subsidiaries delayed until after the establishment of internal control procedures	—
Supplying environmentally friendly products	Environmentally conscious designs	Compile a database to make LCA data computation more efficient	Compiled a database of materials by unit CO2 emissions to make LCA calculations easier	Yes
	Reducing use of environmentally hazardous substances in products	Complete elimination of all RoHS-designated substances	Eliminated stipulated substances for all RoHS-designated products Response completed by May 2006 for 99.9% of orders for all products on a numerical base; the remaining 0.01% are products eligible for RoHS special control (Our President determined at the request of customers)	Yes
		Reduce use of halogenated flame retardants 20% compared with FY2003	Use of halogenated flame retardants reduced 34% compared with FY2003	Yes
	Managing information related to environmentally hazardous chemical substances	Compile and commence operation of a database for procured materials (MADB)	Determined MADB system requirements and completed system construction The system commenced operations in May 2007	Yes
	Reducing use of packaging materials and conserving energy consumed in distribution	Reduce amount of packaging materials used per unit of net production in Japan by more than 20% compared with FY2000	Packaging materials used per unit of net production reduced 23.1% compared with FY2000	Yes
		Reduce CO2 emissions from physical distribution per unit of net production in Japan by more than 20% compared with FY2000	CO2 emissions from physical distribution per unit of net production reduced 26% compared with FY2000	Yes
	Green procurement	Extend domestic materials greenness survey mechanism to overseas sites; establish green activities at overseas sites	Issued Greenness Survey Procedures (for overseas plants) in December 2006 and commenced surveys	Yes
		Achieve a green procurement ratio for office supplies approaching 100% for offices in Japan (disclosure of green procurement results)	Achieve a green procurement ratio for office supplies for FY2006 of 99.8%	Yes
Eco-friendly business activities	Global warming prevention	Reduce CO2 emissions per unit of net production in Japan by more than 23% compared with FY1990	CO2 emissions per unit of net production reduced 38.8% compared with FY1990	Yes
	"Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" for resources and waste	Reduce total waste emissions per unit of net production in Japan by more than 35% compared with FY2000	Total waste emissions per unit of net production reduced 39.0% compared with FY2000	Yes
		Attain a material recycling rate in Japan of 100%	Attained a material recycling rate in Japan of 100%	Yes
		Reduce water consumption per unit of net production in Japan by more than 35% compared with FY2000	Water consumption per unit of net production reduced 40.0% compared with FY2000	Yes
	Managing and reducing environmentally hazardous chemical substances used in production processes	Reduce atmospheric emissions of VOCs which contribute to generation of photochemical oxidants and suspended particulates by more than 3% compared with FY2000	VOC atmospheric emissions rose 10.1% compared with FY2000 Target not yet achieved, despite introduction of RTOs at Yasu Plant and other reduction measures, as a result of overall production increases	—
		Reduce atmospheric emissions in Japan of PFCs which contribute to greenhouse gases by more than 50% compared with FY2002	Atmospheric emissions of PFCs reduced 33.9% from FY2002 Target not yet achieved, despite promotion of alternative substances at Toyama Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., and other reduction measures, as a result of overall production increases	—
	Risk management	Introduce remediation improvement measures to reduce currently excessive remediation time at plants and subsidiaries where soil and groundwater pollution has been confirmed	Measures implemented as scheduled at the relevant plants and subsidiaries	Yes
Social activities	Environmental communications	Continue to issue annual CSR report and release additional information two or more times per year via other media	CSR Report 2006 published Posted "What's New" bulletins four times on the Murata website	Yes
		Issue CSR report	Posted CSR site reports by plants and subsidiaries on the Murata website	Yes
	Community /social contribution activities	At every plant and subsidiary, participate in environmental education programs and events for elementary and junior high school children, carry out cleanup activities in local areas, and support NPO/NGO, etc.	Environmental education programs: 24 schools, 1,300 participants Environmental events: 5 plants or subsidiaries, 7 events Cleaning activities: All facilities	Yes

Environmental Targets for fiscal 2007

Environmental Targets for fiscal 2010