G/TBT/N/KOR/527
23 September 2014 
(14-5329)  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 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 : 
Conformity Policy Division 
Radio Research Agency 
767, Bitgaram-ro, Naju-si, Jeollanam-do l Republic of Korea 520-350  Tel: (+82) 61 338 4711 
Fax: (+82) 61 338 4719 
E-mail: kimcw@msip.go.kr   
Homepage: http://www.rra.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): Telecommunications 
equipments and electrical appliances 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Public Notification 
of Conformity Assessment for Broadcasting Communications Equipment (79 pages, in Korean) 
6. Description of content: Public Notification of NRRA 2014-16  
In amending some articles of the Notice on conformity assessment of broadcasting & 
telecommunications equipment,  its intention and major changes are notified in accordance 
to the Administrative Proceeding Act, Article 46 in order to notify the public in advance and collect comments. 
1. Major Modification 
A. Reclassifying some certification equipment into DoC category (Article 3) 
• In order to relax the regulations and reduce the certification proceeding time 
and the economic burden of the corporate by switching some terminal 
equipment of the certification type into DoC from designated testing labs or SDoC category after reanalyzing their risks on the telecommunications network. 
B. Excluding the certification information including the class of emission from the non-
confidentiality (Article 7, Article 9, Article 13, Appendix Article 3, Appendix Article 9) 
• In rewarding the certification, DoC, the interim certification of the wireless 
equipment, excluding the publicizing items of the public notification in order to 
keep the product information confidential such as the product specification and 
the frequency, etc in the certification information.  G/TBT/N/KOR/527 
 
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  C. Clarifying the documentation from the reclassification of some certification 
equipment (Article 10) 
• Specifying the documentation on the terminal equipment based on reclassifying 
some wired equipment of the certification into the DoC type.  
D. Extending the scope of the modification in the conformity assessment (Article 15) 
• Introducing the legal criteria to apply and test only the relevant technical 
requirements in relation with the modification in reporting the modification of the 
conformity assessment, and integrating Article 15.1.1 and Article 15.1.2. in order to specify and unify the regulation of the criteria scope of the conformity 
assessment in reporting the modification of the hardware. 
• Improving to enable the modification report in case of changing the certification 
information by switching the software without any hardware change of the wireless equipment. 
• Introducing the legal basis to transfer and receive the certificate between the 
self-employed businesses or between the self-employed business and the corporate business. 
• Extending the modification scope irrelevant with the conformity assessment 
criteria from the removal of the computer's parts to all removal of the Broadcasting & Telecommunications parts, applied by the only EMC criteria. 
• Although articulating to "substitute" the register, the inductor, and the capacity 
as the modification report irrelevant with conformity assessment criteria in the regulations, correcting it with the clear term in order to prevent the confusion of the industry. 
• Introducing the new article to handle the modification irrelevant the conformity 
assessment criteria in replacing the computer's parts, applied by the only EMC criteria, with the equivalent parts rewarding the conformity assessment. 
• Introducing the legal criteria to handle the modification irrelevant with the 
conformity assessment criteria in deleting or blocking the function by the software without any change of the hardware. 
E. Securing the objectivity and the rationality on the criteria for the determination of 
the administrative sanction and the non-compliance of the market surveillance (Article 22) 
• Introducing the new article to apply for the appeal of additional tests against the 
other equipment of the same product, et c. to guarantee the objectivity and the 
credibility of the administrative sanctions of the market surveillance because most of them are determined or implemented based on the only one sampling 
test. 
• Introducing the legal basis to secure the objectivity and the rationality for the 
non-compliance determination criteria of the market surveillance caused by the 
appeal, utilizing the statistical methods described in the technical requirements 
of each product class for EMC tests. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: 
This rule aims to specify the relevant matters regarding broadcasting and communication 
equipments and electrical appliances subject to conformity assessment and detail procedures of conformity assessment.  
8. Relevant documents:  RRA Public Notice No. 2014-16 (5 September 2014) 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   To be determined 
Proposed date of entry into force:   November 2014   
10. Final date for comments: 60 days from notification G/TBT/N/KOR/527 
 
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  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:  
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 
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