PSE is the English abbreviation of “Product Safety of Electrical Appliance & Materials”.
PSE Certification (named the Applicability Certification in Japan) is the compulsory market access requirements for the electrical products in Japan. The Safety Law of Electrical Appliance & Materials,divides the electrical products into 2 groups, “specific electrical appliance & materials” and” non-specific electrical appliance & materials”. The group of “specific electrical appliance & materials” covers 115 products. To enter the Japanese market,these products must be certified by a third party authorized by the Japanese Ministry of Economic, Trade and Industry (METI)
The group of “non-specific electrical appliance & materials” cover 338 products. To enter the Japanese market, these products need to be either self-tested or tested by a third party and have a self-declaration of compliance with The Safety Law of Electrical Appliance & Materials. According to the DENAN Regulation, the manufacturer are obliged to keep the testing report and the proof, and the certified product(s) should be marked with the round PSE certification label.
