G/TBT/N/KOR/882  
24 March 2020  
(20-2376) 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 different from above:   
Environment -Friendly Agriculture Division of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural 
Affairs (MAFRA)  
Tel.: +82 -44-201-2432, 2436~7  
Fax: +82 -44-868-0483 
E-mail: sunline@korea.kr  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], 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 and fishery products, processed organic foods and 
materials for organic farming  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Proposed 
Amendments to the enforcement decree of the act on Promotion of  Environment -friendly 
Agriculture and Fisheries, and Management of and Support for Organic Foods (50 page(s), 
in Korean)  
6. Description of content:   
A. Developing new detailed guidelines for calculation of expenses in relation to penalty 
surcharges to habitual violations and detailed standards for collection of such expenses 
(Article 3 -2, Table 1  (draft))  
-  Prescribing detailed matters regarding imposing and collection of penalty surcharges as 
laying the basis for imposing penalty surcha rges 
B.  Developing detailed standards for placing administrative fines the amendments 
contains subdividing of upper limit (Table 2  (draft))  
-  Setting specific standards for imposing administrative fines concerning those violated 
and importance of matters  under the amendments to the act, in particular upper limit of 
administrative fines  
C.  Amending regulations on delegation of authority of each agency under the amendments 
to this act (Article 5  (draft))  
-  Developing specific regulations on delegation inc luding research and evaluation on actual 
conditions of agricultural and fishery resources and environment, designation of and 
monitoring agency for education and training, imposing and collection of penalty 
surcharges     G/TBT/N/KOR/882  
 
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  7. Objective and rationale, includ ing the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of human health or safety  
8. Relevant documents:   
• Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Public Notice No. 2020 -105 (9 March 
2020)  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  28 August 2020  
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:   
Environment -Friendly Agriculture Division of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural 
Affairs (MAFRA)  
Tel.: +82 -44-201-2432, 2436~7  
Fax: +82 -44-868-0483 
E-mail: sunline@korea.kr  
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