In accordance with the model guideline which formulated by the Cabinet Secretariat IT Strategy Office, the SEAJ provides official Sharing Economy Trust Mark to certified sharing services. Based on the "items which should be abided", the SEAJ set the self rules to show the purpose.
To appeal the function of sharing matching platform from reliable official sharing services, partners, local governments to the world.
Regardless the member or non-member of the SEAJ, it's possible to apply for the Sharing Economy Trust Mark for the existing units located in Japan which provides matching (CtoC) platform (※1) of sharing economy.
The benefits of acquiring Sharing Econmy Trust Mark are as following 4 points.
| (※1) | If it is an n-to-n business, it is not necessary to be CtoC business. The BtoC business operators, such as bicycle sharing business, may able be approved from the certification committee. Please contact us for qualification of application. |
| (※2) | For insurance products and insurance company, please contact the SEAJ for more details. |
To reduce the applicants' burden, the application flow is friendly to start-ups. It is unnecessary to create a new document or principle. We will ask the applicants to submit the screenshot of their sharing services and the data for terms of service. The examiner will make it into document while checking all the details verbally.
About the review fee
| Initial Review | Surveillance Review 【1st year】 |
Surveillance Review 【2nd year】 |
Surveillance Review 【3rd year】 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application fee | ￥50,000 | – | – | – |
| Basic Review fee | ￥70,000 | – | – | – |
| Review fee | ￥70,000 | ￥70,000 | ￥70,000 | ￥70,000 |
| Registration fee | ￥30,000 | ￥30,000 | ￥30,000 | ￥30,000 |
| Registration certificate issue fee | ￥30,000 | – | – | ￥30,000 |
| Logo mark issue fee | ￥30,000（※1） | – | – | – |
| Total | ￥280,000 | ￥100,000 | ￥100,000 | ￥130,000 |
(excluding tax)
As the member special price, the initial review fee will be ￥150,000.
| Initial Review | Surveillance Review 【1st year】 |
Surveillance Review 【2nd year】 |
Surveillance Review 【3rd year】 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application fee | ￥50,000（※2） | – | – | – |
| Basic Review fee | Free | – | – | – |
| Review fee | ￥70,000 | ￥70,000 | ￥70,000 | ￥70,000 |
| Registration fee | ￥30,000 | ￥30,000 | ￥30,000 | ￥30,000 |
| Registration certificate issue fee | Free | – | – | Free |
| Logo mark issue fee | Free | – | – | – |
| Total | ￥150,000 | ￥100,000 | ￥100,000 | ￥100,000 |
(excluding tax)
| (※1) | Supportive campaign for start-up / small and medium-sized company : For the companies which are non-member of the SEAJ, the number of employees is less than 50 or the capital is less than 100 million yen, and unlisted companies, the issue cost of the logo mark will be free until the end of July, 2017. |
| (※2) | Supportive campaign for member start-up / small and medium-sized company : For the companies which are member of the SEAJ, the number of employees is less than 50 or the capital is less than 100 million yen, and unlisted companies, the application fee will be free until the end of July, 2017. |
