G/SPS/N/KOR/475  
 
27 June 2014  
(14-3698)  Page: 1/2  
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  NOTIFICATION 
1. Notifying Member:  REPUBLIC OF KOREA 
If applicable, name of local government involved:   
2. Agency responsible: Ministry of Food and Drug Safety 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item  number(s) as specified in national 
schedules deposited with the WTO; IC S numbers should be provided in 
addition, where applicable): Testing laboratories (food, livestock products, 
pharmaceuticals, traditional Korean medicinal substances, medical devices, cosmetics) 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected , to the extent relevant or practicable: 
[X] All trading partners   
[ ] Specific regions or countries:   
5. Title of the notified document: Re-notification of newly added texts of Enforcement 
Regulation of Testing and Inspection of Food and Drugs Act  Language(s): Korean   
Number of pages: 173 
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2014/sps/KOR/14_2886_00_x.pdf  
6. Description of content: The proposed Enactment of the Enforcement Regulation of 
Testing and Inspection of Food and Drugs Act was already notified to WTO in 
11 December 2013 for comment. 
In the meantime, it was decided that current provisions of existing notifications 
exercised by the Minister of Food and Drug Safety should be consolidated into the 
previously notified Enactments for better clarification of the legal status in line with the Enforcement Regulation, by upgrading the text in MFDS notifications into the 
Enforcement Regulation. 
As a result, the current regulations in the MFDS notifications were incorporated into the 
Annexes of the previously proposed Enactment of the Enforcement Regulation. 
Key features of the proposed texts shall be those of current texts of the notifications and 
minor changes were made to expand the designating scope of the testing laboratory to 
allow Livestock Products Testing in addition to the Food Testing laboratories with regards to Foreign Official Laboratories. User fee system introduced was already notified to WTO 
in 11 December 2013. 
7. Objective and rationale: [X] food safety, [ ] animal health, [ ] plant protection, 
[ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [ ] protect territory from 
other damage from pests.   G/SPS/N/KOR/475 
 
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  8. Is there a relevant international st andard? If so, identify the standard:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or serial number of Codex 
standard or related text)   
[ ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number)    
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number)    
[X] None 
Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?   
[ ] Yes   [ ] No 
If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:   
9. Other relevant documents and language (s) in which these are available:  
Enforcement Regulations of the Food Sanitation Act, the Livestock Products Sanitation 
Control Act, the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act, the Medical Devices Act, the Cosmetics Act, the Health Functional Foods Act (available in Korean and English) 
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : To be determined. 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) : To be determined. 
11. Proposed date of entry into force: [ ] Six months from date of publication , 
and/or  (dd/mm/yy) : 31 July 2014 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Final date for comments: [ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : 11 July 2014 
Agency or authority designated to hand le comments: [ ] National Notification 
Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address 
(if available) of other body:  
International Cooperation Office 
Ministry of Food and Drug Safety  #187 Osongsaengmyeong2-ro, Osong-eup, Cheongwon-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do 
363-700, Korea 
Tel: +(82 43) 719 1554 Fax: +(82 43) 719 1550 E-mail: wtokfda@korea.kr 
13. Texts available from: [ ] National Notifi cation Authority, [ ] National Enquiry 
Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:   
Documents are available from the Korea Ministry of Government Legislation website at 
http://www.law.go.kr . Also available from:   
International Cooperation Office 
Ministry of Food and Drug Safety  
#187 Osongsaengmyeong2-ro, Osong-eup, Cheongwon-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do 363-700, Korea Tel: +(82 43) 719 1554 
Fax: +(82 43) 719 1550 
E-mail: wtokfda@korea.kr