Enforcement Rule of the Aquatic Life Disease Control Act  
 
Article 2. Aquatic Organism Disease  
Diseases “specified by Ordinance of the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries” under the Subparagraph 6 of Article 
2 of ⌜Aquatic Life Disease Control Act ⌟ are as  follows:  
1. Fish : Epizootic haematopoietic necrosis  (Infection with epizootic haematopoietic necrosis virus) , 
Infectious salmon anaemia  (Infection with HPR -deleted or HPR0 infectious salmon anaemia virus) , 
Gyrodactylosis  (Infection with Gyrodactylus salaris ), Infection with salmonid alphavirus  
2. Shellfish : Bonamiosis  (Infection with Bonamia ostreae, Infection with Bonamia exitiosa), Marteiliosis  
(Infection with Marteilia refringens), Perkinsiosis  (Infection with Perkinsus marinus), Infection with 
Xenohaliotis  californiensis , Infection with abalone herpesvirus  
3. Crustacean : Crayfish plague  (Infection with Aphanomyces astaci) , Infectious hypodermal and 
haematopoietic necrosis (Infection with infectious hypodermal and haematopoietic necrosis virus ), 
Infectious myonecrosis (Infection with infectious myonecrosis virus ), White tail disease  (Infection 
with Macrobranchium rosenbergii nodavirus) , Necrotising hepatopancreatitis  (Infection with 
Hepatobacter penaeis) , Acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease  
4. Other aquatic  animal diseases  designated and notified  by the Minister of Oceans and Fisheries that 
require continuous surveillance and control  
 
Article 28. Exemption from Accompanying Health Certificate  
1. Cases “designated under the law of the MOF” under the provisions o f Paragraph 1 of Article 26 on the 
Act are as :  
1.1. Designated quarantine items from a country without the government institute for aquatic organism 
quarantine and authorized by the Director General ( DG) of the National Fishery Products Quality 
Management Serv ice (NFQS ) in advance  
1.2. Import authorized by the DG of the NFQS for experiment or research or for pharmaceutical 
production to diagnose and prevent aquatic organism diseases under the provisions of Paragraph 1 
of Article 24 on the Act  
1.3. Dispatched quarantine u nder Article 28 on the Act  
1.4. Eliminated (Feb. 8, 2017)  
1.5. Designated quarantine items not subject to aquatic life diseases described in Subparagraph 5 of 
Article 2 on the Act  
1.6. Eliminated (Feb. 8, 2017)  
1.7. Eliminated (Sep. 27, 2012)  
1.8. Eliminated (Sep. 27, 2012)  
1.9. Design ated quarantine items subject to aquatic organism diseases indicated in Appendix 3.2  
Classification  Species  
Aquatic animal disease , included in the O IE 
disease list , which occurred both in Korea and 
exporting country  Red sea bream iridoviral  disease, Infectious 
hypodermal and haematopoietic necrosis virus  
Designated quarantine items, from which it is 
difficult to  artificially  produce seed both in/out Eel fry for aquaculture  of the country  
Designated quarantine items, through which 
test and research is conducted in reported or 
permitted research center in accordance with 
Paragraph 1 of Article 22 of ⌜Transboundary 
Movement, ETC. of Living Modified 
Organisms Act ⌟  Zebrafish  
1.10. Designated quarantine items returned from being denied entry into an importing country  
1.11. Return from display in an exhibition in an importing country