G/TBT/N/KOR/544  
 
23 December 2014  
(14-7431)  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: Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) 
Name and address (including telephon e 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 : 
93, Isu-ro, Maengdong-myeon 
Eumseong-gun 
Chungcheongbuk-do, 369-811 Republic of Korea Tel.: (+82) 43 870 5448 
Fax: (+82) 43 870 5440 
E-mail: tbt@korea.kr   
Website: http://www.kats.go.kr   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ X ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [ X ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applic able, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Electrical appliances 
and industrial products 
5. Title, number of pages and langua ge(s) of the notified document: Draft of 
Amendment of Electrical Appliances Safety Control Act, and Quality Management and Safety Control of Industrial Products  Act (62 pages, in Korean) 
6. Description of content:  
 In order to effectively operate the safety system, the two Acts 'Electrical Appliances 
Safety Control Act' and 'Quality Management and Safety Control of Industrial 
Products Act' will be combined into one Act and named 'Electrical Appliances and Industrial Products Safety Control Act'. 
 With the aim of improving the product safety management: 
 Penalties for any changes made in products certified with the safety certification 
without notifying a certification body will be stricken; 
 Building owner, portal site provider, builder, and business manager will be 
included into the list of users responsible for certification; 
 The certification will be cancelled if products subject to the safety confirmation are 
illegal or defected; 
 Electric appliances subject to SDoC shall be reported to the relevant authority. 
 With intention of reducing the burden on industry / businesses, regulations for 
factory inspection and certification will be amended. 
 To allow importers and manufacturers of the small amount of products to get 
products certified with a safety certification without having factory inspections; G/TBT/N/KOR/544 
 
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   To allow OEM to apply for the safety certification; 
 To reduce the factory inspections from once per year to every two years; 
 To abolish the  expiration period of five ye ars for the safely confirmation.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: 
Consumer protection 
8. Relevant documents:  KATS Public Notice No. 2014-639 (18 December 2014) 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   1 July 2016 
Proposed date of entry into force:   1 July 2016   
10. Final date for comments: 60 days from date of notification  
11. Texts available from: Nati onal enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
93, Isu-ro, Maengdong-myeon 
Eumseong-gun Chungcheongbuk-do, 369-811 
Republic of Korea 
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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