. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/KOR/96 
21 September 2005 
 (05-4186) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   REPUBLIC OF KOREA
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   Korea Food and Drug Administration 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site 
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):   Cosmetic products 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Proposed 
Amendments of ‘Regulation on Designating Cosmetic Ingredients’ (47pages, KFDA Notification 2005-121) 
6. Description of content:   The Proposed provisions are as follows: 
a) To change the title of the KFDA notification from ‘Regulation on Specification, Test 
Method and Ingredient Designation of Cosm etics’ to ‘Regulation on Designating 
Cosmetic Ingredients’ 
b) To delete ‘Dibutylphthalate’, ‘Octamethylcyc lotetrasiloxane’, ‘Toluene’, ‘Petrolatum’ 
and ‘Potassium bromate’ from the Annex 1 
c) To delete ‘Oxyquinoline’ and ‘Oxyquinoline su lphate’, ingredients prohibited for use 
in cosmetics, from the Annex 2 
d) To add ‘Polyacrylamide’ and ‘Epidermal Growth Factor’ to the Annex 3(list of 
ingredients allowed for use but with restriction on concentration), modify the maximum authorized concentration fo r ‘Thioglycolic acid’ and ‘Cysteine 
hydrochloride’ and delete ‘Dimethoxan’ and ‘Thiram’, prohibited ingredients in 
cosmetics, from the Annex 3  
e) To add the ‘Dibutylphthalate (DBP)’, ‘Die thylhexylphthalate (DEHP)’, ‘Methanol’, 
‘Substance from Human Placenta’, ‘Ketoconazol’ and etc. to the Annex 4 (list of ingredients prohibited for use in cosmetic products) 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
To improve safety of cosmetic products, KF DA add or delete the cosmetic ingredients G/TBT/N/KOR/96 
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 8. Relevant documents:   The Korea Food and Drug Administration Advance Notice 
No. 2003-23 (10 October 2003) (in Korean only) 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   }To be determined 
10. Final date for comments:   21 November 2005 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:   
Documents are available from the Korea Food and Drug Administration website: 
www.kfda.go.kr 
and are also available from:  
International Trade and Legal Affairs Office  
Korea Food and Drug Administration  
5 Nokbun-dong, Eunpyung-Ku  
Seoul, 122-704 
Republic of Korea  
 Telephone: (+82) 2 380 1661  
Telefax: (+82) 2 356 2893  
E-mail:  wtokfda@kfda.go.kr