. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/KOR/206 
6 March 2009  
 (09-1164) 
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 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
 
Homepage:  http://www.kats.go.kr  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ X ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [ X ], 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):   
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:   
- In order to apply the different safety mana gement to electrical appliances according 
to the level of hazard, the Korean Govern ment has introduced 'Self-Regulatory Safety 
Confirmation System’ and has been operating the sy stem in parallel with the existing 'Safety 
Certification’ starting on 1 January 2009, consid ering changes in circumstances such as the 
development of electrical and electronic indu stry, an increase in putting newly developed 
products on the market and the need of deregulation, etc.  
 -  High-hazardous major electrical appliances have been regulated as the products 
subject to the safety certification and Korea ha s been operating the safe ty certification which 
allows the sale of electrical a ppliances if they received the sa fety certification after conducting 
product tests and factory inspection fr om safety certification bodies. 
-  Regarding the electrical appliances subject  to the self-regulator y safety confirmation, 
the factory inspection and regular inspection (once an year) applied to the existing electrical appliances subject to the safety ce rtification are no longer required.  G/TBT/N/KOR/206 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:   
Article 3 on Enforcement Regulation of the El ectrical Appliances Safety Control Act  
8. Relevant documents:    
Ordinance of Ministry of Knowledge Econo my No. 44 for Enforcement Regulation of 
Electrical Appliances Safety  Control Act was published in the Korean Official Gazette 
No. 16909, 31 December 2008, p. 232, and is also available at: 
http://gwanbo.korea.go.kr/upload/2008/12/1231020000.pdf  
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   }1 January 2009 (1 January 2010 for the 
additional products newly designated) 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from date of notification 
11. Text available from: National enquiry po int [ X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addres ses, if available of the other body:    
TBT Division 
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 URLs: 
 http://kats.go.kr/english/cm_02/ cm_02_06.asp?OlapCode=ATSU2106