. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/KOR/317 
27 July 2011  
 (11-3809) 
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:  Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) 
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 :   
96 Gyoyukwongil, Gwacheon-Si 
Gyonggi-Do, 427-716 KOREA Tel.:  (+82) 2 509 7254/7255 Fax:  (+82) 2 509 7307 
E-mail:  tbt@kats.go.kr  
Website:  http://www.kats.go.kr  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [   ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [ X ], other:   
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Electrical Appliances 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Proposed amendment 
of Electrical Appliances Safety Control Act (available in Korean). 
6. Description of content:   
Enforcement Decree of the Act will be amended as follows:  
 Routine inspection (product verification testing + factory inspection) will be 
conducted once every two years when the result of the routine inspection of oversee or domestic manufacturers producing ce rtified electrical appliances shows 
satisfactory compliance wi th applicable standards continuously for 2 years. 
Enforcement Rule of the Act will be amended as follows: 
 to add a charger for an electric vehicle and an energy storage system in the scope of 
the self-regulatory safety confirmation system in order to provide a safety certification service for the chargers and the energy storage systems that are widely used today without conducting an electrical  safety assessment of the appliances. It 
may lead to fatal accidents not to  perform the safety assessment. G/TBT/N/KOR/317 
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   to change the product name of "Ultrasonic washing device" which is subject to the 
self-regulatory safety confirmation into "E lectric washing device" so as to regulate 
the safety of the electric wash ing device using ozone, ultrasonic and so on,  in view of 
the fact that newly-developed washing de vices (e.g. a washing device using ozone) 
can cause adverse health effects to consumers. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Consumer protection  
8. Relevant documents:   „ 
 Public Notice: Ministry of Knowledg e Economy 2011-No. 320(June 29 2011) for the 
Enforcement Decree of the Act 
 Public Notice: Ministry of Knowledg e Economy 2011-No. 319(July 1 2011) for the 
Enforcement Rule of the Act 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    1 October 2011   
1 January 2012 (1 April 2012,  for electric 
washing devices) 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from 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:    
TBT Division 
KATS 96 Gyoyukwongil, Gwacheon-Si Gyonggi-Do, 427-716 KOREA 
Tel.:  (+82) 2 509 7254/7255 
Fax:  (+82) 2 509 7307 E-mail:  tbt@kats.go.kr  
Website:  http://www.kats.go.kr  
 
Full texts are available on the Internet at URL: 
http://kats.go.kr/english/cm_02/ cm_02_06.asp?OlapCode=ATSU2106  
and at: 
http://members.wto.org/crna ttachments/2011/tbt/KOR/11_2282_00_x.pdf  
http://members.wto.org/crna ttachments/2011/tbt/KOR/11_2282_01_x.pdf