. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/KOR/392 
18 September 2012 
 (12-4986) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Notifying Member:  REPUBLIC OF KOREA  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  Environment-Friendly Agriculture Di vision of the Ministry for Food, 
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MIFAFF) 
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 :    
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):  Agricultural Machinery 
5. Title, number of pages and langua ge(s) of the notified document:  Proposed Amendment 
to the Enforcement Decree and the Enforc ement Rule of Agricultural Mechanization 
Promotion Act (59 pages, in Korean). 
6. Description of content:  The proposed amendments are as following:  
- In order to carry out the Agriculture Ma chinery Examination, manufacturers must 
 submit photos of machinery and a copy of certificate of automobile emission control. 
 If the product malfunctions or is damage d during the examination period and the 
 examination cannot be continued, the pr oduct will be disqualified (Article 3, 
 Section 1 and Section 2); 
- Major agricultural machinery (referring to the ones that require structure and 
 performance testing) will be subject to the Overa ll Examination and Safety 
 Examination. (Article  2 of 3, Section 1); 
- For the machinery that passed Overall Ex amination and Safety Examination, results 
 of the examination will be valid as for the service life of the machine. When the 
 validity is expired, written notifications wi ll be sent to the manufacturer in advance 
 (Article 6, Secti on 2 and Section 4); 
- Manufactures will be able to put a certif ication stamp on the machinery that passed 
 the exam (Article 6, Section 7); 
- The application fees for the examination ca n be paid in cash or through electronic 
 banking. In any case that the examination is suspended and cannot be successfully 
 completed, the fees will be refunded (A rticle 2 of 14, Sec tion 2 and Section 3); G/TBT/N/KOR/392 
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  - For the machinery certified that it is e quipped with safety devices, the validity period 
 of such certification will be the same as th at of the examination defined in Article 6, 
 Section 2. When the validity of the certif ication for instalment of safety device is 
 expired, written notifications will be sent to the manufacture r in advance (Article 6  of 
 18, Section 3 and Section 5); 
- Manufactures will be able to put a certif ication stamp on the machinery that passed 
 the certification for instalment of sa fety device (Artic le 18, Section 6). 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
To create a legislative basis to establish Agricultural Machinery Examination system.  
8. Relevant documents:   MIFAFF Public Notification 2 012- 436 (21 August. 2012) (available 
in Korean).   
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    To be determined 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days  after the date of notification 
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addres ses, if available of the other body:    
Environment-Friendly Agriculture Division of th e Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry 
and Fisheries(MIFAFF) Address:  88, Gwanmunro, Gwacheon-city , Gyeonggi-Do, 427-719, Republic of Korea 
Tel.:  + 82-2-500-1996 Fax:  +82-2-503-0445 
E-mail:  sbl6510@korea.kr  
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