. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/KOR/282 
28 July 2010  
 (10-4047) 
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 (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  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 applicab le, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in  addition, where applicable):  Livestock products 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Proposed the 
amendment of the Presidential Ordinance and th e Ministerial Ordinance of the 'Livestock 
Products Sanitation Act'. (Availabl e in Korean, 441 pages)     
6. Description of content:  The MIFAFF proposed the amendment of the Presidential 
Ordinance and the Ministerial Ordinance of the 'Livestock Products Sanitation Act' to 
provide the revised and newly mandated ru les in the Act, which was amended and 
promulgated on the 25th May, 2010. The main co ntents of this draft reflect the provisions 
for extension of the sanitary education, the reinforcement of the publication, the modification of administrative punishment, fi ne imposition and penal regulations and the 
extension of the scope of HACCP accreditati on. It also includes regulatory reform, and 
supplements the existing provisi ons that were inadequate.  
- Amendment of the Presidential Ordinance of the Livestock Products Sanitation Act  
1) To introduce the compulsory packaging of chicken and duck meat in whole 
distribution and sale channel;  
2) To introduce a new rule on the compulsory  packaging of hen eggs in the category 
of the edible eggs; 
3) To establish a new business (Livestock products cutting sales business) which cuts 
processed livestock product such as fermented fresh Ham in front of consumers and sells partially cut pieces directly to them; 
4) To establish a new business (shell egg sales business) which specializes in 
collecting and distributing hen eggs; 
5) To amend the standard of imposing fines and penalty in accordance with the change 
in upper limit. G/TBT/N/KOR/282 
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  - Amendment of the Ministerial Ordinance of the Livestock Products Sanitation Act 
1) As to the method and procedures of the Livestock product HACCP verification and 
assessment, Governors of local governments and president of the KOLPHAS (Korea Livestock Products HACCP Accreditation Service) shall make a monthly report to Director General of the NVRQS (National Veterinary Research & 
Quarantine Service) after conducting government verification through the record 
review and on-site observation;  
2) Director General of the NVRQS may designa te items that can be possibly diverted 
from its original purpose among the declar ed import livestock products and shall 
share the information with the authorized local government; 
3) To establish Sampling procedures for the livestock products which are consumed 
by the E-commerce and mail order. In that case, the delivery may be accepted and 
issuing of certificate to prove sampling is not needed; 
4) Only Ham and Cheese products shall be accepted in the so-called livestock 
products cutting sales business; 
5) To develop operators responsibilities of new business fields such as livestock 
products cutting sales business and shell egg sale business, and to modify part of the  existing operators responsibilities; 
6) As to the rationalization of the scope of the mislabelling and the exaggerative 
advertisement, to clarify ambi guous or inadequate provisions; 
7) To require business operators and employees to get sanitary education annually; 
8) To identify list of minor violations whose penalty has been converted from penal  
regulation to fine imposition. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the natu re of urgent problems where applicable:  
To provide correct information to the consumers.  
8. Relevant documents:   Korean official government gazette, Ministry for Food, Agriculture, 
Forestry and Fisheries Notice No. 2010-261, No. 2010-262.   (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 po int [ X ], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:    
Food Safety & Sanitation Division 
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry 88, Gwanmunro, Gwacheon-city 
Gyeonggi-Do, 427-719 
Republic of Korea Tel.:  +(82) 2 500 2102 Fax:  +(82) 2 503 0020 E-mail:  sjkim08@mifaff.go.kr