. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/KOR/267 
11 December 2007  
 (07-5495) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  REPUBLIC OF KOREA
 
If applicable, name of local government involved:     
2. Agency responsible:  National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service (NVRQS) of the 
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item numb er(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where applicable):  Livestock products for human consumption 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable :  Any 
trading partners 
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:  Proposed Draft 
Amendment of the Criteria on Inspection Fe e and the Inspection Application for the 
Livestock Products (available in Korean, 21 pages) 
6. Description of content:  MAF revised the existing regulation, the Criteria for Inspection Fee 
and Inspection Application for the Livestock Produ cts, in order to fairly apply the concerned 
regulation to relevant livesto ck products, to have regulat ory consistency between the 
concerned regulation and other f ood-related regulations, and to c onsider the benefit principle. 
The main contents are as follows:  
1. To add 11 categories of impor ted meat to the list of items subject to inspection fee and 
establish 4 inspection it ems those materials. 
2. To reduce the number of exemption from inspection fee for the livestock products from 
6 cases to 2 cases. 
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    
8. International standard, guideline or recommendation:  
[   ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [   ] World Organization for Animal Health 
(OIE), [   ] International Plant Protection Convention, [ X ] None  
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate 
reference and briefly identify deviations:    
9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:   To be available in the 
internet homepage of NVRQS ( http://www.nvrqs.go.kr , available in Korean) 
10. Proposed date of adoption:  1 March 2008 G/SPS/N/KOR/267 
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  11. Proposed date of entry into force:  1 March 2008 
12. Final date for comments:  Sixty (60 days) after the date of notification.  Suggestions can be 
reflected to revise this guideline when it is reviewed and considered reasonable. 
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [   ] National notification 
authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, or  address, fax number and E-mail address (if 
available) of other body: 
Quarantine and Inspection Division 
National Veterinary Research  and  Quarantine Service 
Tel:  (+82) 31 467 1936 Fax:  (+82) 31 467 1717 E-mail:  jeongjm@nvrqs.go.kr 
13. Texts available from:  [   ] National notifica tion authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, 
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body: 
Quarantine and Inspection Division 
National Veterinary Research  and  Quarantine Service 
Tel:  (+82) 31 467 1936 Fax:  (+82) 31 467 1717 E-mail:  jeongjm@nvrqs.go.kr