G/TBT/N/KOR/736  
 
17 November 2017  
(17-6289) Page: 1/3 
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: National Radio Research Agency (RRA)  
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:   
Conformity Policy Division  
Radio Research Agency  
767, bitgaram -ro, Naju -si, Jeollanam -do 
Republic of Korea 58323  
Tel: (+82) 61 338 4712  
Fax: (+82) 61 338 4719  
E-mail: wnkim@korea.kr  
Homepage: http://www.rra.go.kr  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [  ], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [X], 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): 
Telecommunications equipment and electrical appliances  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Public Notification 
of Conformity Assessment for Broadcasting Communications Equipment (15 page(s), in 
Korean)   
6. Description of content:  
A. Revision of filing method of conformity certifi cation documents (Article 5)  
 They can not submit the test report every year if the importer who obtained the 
conformity certificate without the circuit diagram submits the circuit diagram later, 
and apply mutatis mutandis of modification reporting procedur e in submitting the 
test report and the circuit diagram  
B. Revision of conformity assessment marking method (Article 23, Attached Table 5)  
 In order to avoid confusion on marking timing in import and sales, the conformity 
assessment mark shall be displayed on the equipment before customs clearance.  
 To prevent confusion and inconvenience between manufacturers and consumers, a 
permanent identification mark shall be used, "R (meaning Radio Act) ", not affected 
by changes of Ministry name under reshuffling govern ment organization.  
 In order to alleviate the burden on authorization appliers, if it is possible to identify 
visually the conformity assessment mark of the product in the packaging state with 
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  can not be displayed.  
 In order to ease the burden on authorization appliers, when purchasing parallel 
import products, if buyers provide stickers, etc. to attach the conformity 
assessment mark by themselves on product surface the conformity a ssessment 
mark can not be displayed on the product  
 In order to enhance appliers ' benefit, underbars  (_) and hyphens  (-) can be used 
in the product identifier of the conformity assessment mark.  
C. New Introduction and partly reclassification of authorized f ire fighting 
equipment(Attached Table 2, Attached Table 3)  
 In order to resolve duplicate certification, fire fighting equipment under the 
Ministry of the Interior and Safety shall be included to the authorized equipment 
under Ministry of Science and ICT.  
 In order to comply with the classification criteria of equipment, we shall reclassify 
the motor vehicles and equipment driven by DC power supplies, previously 
excluded from the vehicles and equipment by ignition engine.  
 We shall exclude electric lighters an d LED lanterns from authorized equipment due 
to significantly low harmful interference of EMC.  
D. Form changes to facilitate the conformity assessment process (Attached, Form 1, 
Form 5, Form 6, Form 8)  
 Applying technical requirement of "Field Strength" to some home appliances, the 
test of "Field Strength" is added to the application form of conformity assessment.  
 A photograph of the equipment appearance shall be attached to the "approved 
papers compliant with the conformity assessment regulation" to identif y the 
equipment at the site when examining and inspecting illegal equipment.  
E. Revision of other public notification (Appendix)  
 We shall intend to revise the "Notification on Designation and Management of 
Testing Labs for Broadcasting and Communication Eq uipment, etc." so that the 
field of electromagnetic compatibility  (EMC) test for fire -fighting equipment can be 
included for the designation (Appendix)  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: This rule aims to  specify the relevant matters regarding broadcasting and 
communication equipment and electrical appliances subject to conformity assessment and 
detail procedures of conformity assessment.  
8. Relevant documents:  RRA Public Notice No. 2017 -49 (27 September 2017)  
9. Proposed date of adoption: 1 December 2017  
Proposed date of entry into force: 1 December 2017  
10. Final date for comments: 14 days from notification  G/TBT/N/KOR/736  
 
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  11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:   
WTO Technical Barriers to Trade(TBT) Division  
Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS)  
93 Isu -ro, Maengdong -myeon, Eumseong -gun, Chungcheongbuk -do, Rep. of Korea 27737  
Tel.: (+82) 43 870 5 525 
Fax: (+82) 43 870 5682  
E-mail: tbt@korea.kr  
Website: http://www.knowtbt.kr   
http://www.rra.go.kr  (available in Korean)  
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