G/TBT/N/KOR/1177  
16 October 2023  
(23-6941) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  REPUBLIC OF KOREA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs(MAFRA)  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if d ifferent from above:   
Environment -Friendly Agriculture Division of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural 
Affairs (MAFRA)  
Tel.: +82 -44-201-2431, 2437  
Fax: +82 -44-868-0483 
E-mail: dover@korea.kr  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [  ], 5.7.1 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  
Environment -friendly agricultural products, Materials for organic farming  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  - Proposed 
Amendments to the enforcement rule of the Act on Promotion of Environment -friendly 
agricu lture and Fisheries, and Management of and Support for Organic Foods (11 pages, 
including Korean version); (11 page(s), in Korean)  
6. Description of content:  The main amended contents in this document are as follows:  
A. Improvement of certification criter ia for organic foods, etc. (Annex 4 and 14 of the 
draft)  
1) Revised the pesticide detection standard for environment -friendly agricultural products 
from "non -detection" to 1/20 or below of MRLs set for general agricultural products, and 
if the MRLs are not  set, the standard is revised to 0.01mg/kg or below.  
2) Added conditions for certified business entities to raise the effectiveness of conserving 
agricultural environment and to prevent unintended contamination.  
B. Rationalization of criteria for administrative dispositions against business entities of 
organic agricultural materials who have obtained public disclosures (Annex 20 of the 
draft)  
- Administrative dispositions are applied to the products of the business entities that have 
obtained publi c disclosures that have failed to comply with the certification criteria, if 
there are problems in raw materials or ingredients, the administrative dispositions would 
be applied to the inappropriate raw materials or ingredients.  G/TBT/N/KOR/1177  
 
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  C. Change of templates (tem plates in Appendix 35, Appendix 42 and Appendix 45)  
- Revised the template to ensure the public disclosure of organic agricultural materials is  
easily readable and easy to write (Appendix 35) and deleted from the templates items 
that 
may be changed frequen tly (Appendix 42 and 45).  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of human health or safety  
8. Relevant documents:   
Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs(MAFRA) Public Notice No. 2023-394 
(available in Korean)  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  30 December 2023  
Proposed date of entry into force:  30 December 2023  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Division  
Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS)  
93, Isu -ro, Maengdong -myeon, Eumseong -gun, Chungcheongbuk -do, Republic of Korea, 
369-811 
Tel.: (+82) 43 870 5525 Fax: (+82) 43 870 5682  
E-mail: tbt@kats.go.kr  Website: http://www.knowtbt.kr  
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