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G/SPS/N/KOR/414 
16 May 2012 
 (12-2649) 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
1. Notifying Member:  REPUBLIC OF KOREA 
If applicable, name of local government involved:    
2. Agency responsible:  Aquaculture Industry Division of the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, 
Forestry & Fisheries (MIFAFF) 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item numbe r(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO;  ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where 
applicable):  Aquatic creatures 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: 
[X] All trading partners   
[ ] Specific regions or countries:    
5. Title of the notified document:  Enforcement Decree and Enforcement Rule of Aquatic 
Animal Disease Control Act  Language(s):  Korean  Number of pages:  2 
 http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2012/sps/KOR/12_1856_00_x.pdf  
 http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2012/sps/KOR/12_1856_01_x.pdf  
6. Description of content:  The proposed amendments are the following: 
- As the scope of the Enforcement Decree is extended to cover aquatic  plants as well in 
addition to aquatic animals, a presidential decr ee was issued to add aquatic plants to its 
coverage. 
- In line with OIE's decision to remove two diseases (tetrahedral baculovirosis and 
spherical baculovirosis) from its list of diseases, MIFAFF had these two diseases erased 
from the list of infectious diseases in the Enforcement Rule to avoid possible trade 
conflict. 
- The scope of designated quarantine items was extended to include refrigerated and 
frozen abalone in addition to live aquatic animals. 
- MIFAFF included designated quarantine items  that were returned from their export 
destination to the list of items that ar e exempted from duty to attach quarantine 
certificates. 
- Marine cage culture farms are allowed to be used as quarantine site for designated 
quarantine items with quara ntine certificates attached. 
- Condition of quarantine site was changed fro m low temperature storage to storages with 
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  7. Objective and rationale:  [ ] food safety, [X] animal health, [ ] plant protection, 
[ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [ ] protect territory from other damage from pests.  To establish grounds for aquatic plant disease control and improve 
overall quarantine system. 
8. Is there a relevant international stan dard?  If so, identify the standard:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or serial number of Codex standard 
or related text)   
[X] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number)    
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number)    
[ ] None Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?   
 [ ] Yes   [ ] No 
 If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:    
9. Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  To be 
available in the internet homepage of MIFAFF ( http://www.mifaff.go.kr ) (available in 
Korean) 
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) :  22 July 2012 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) :    
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  [ ] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) :  22 July 2012 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Final date for comments:  [X] Sixty days  from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) :  15 July 2012 
Agency or authority designated to handl e comments:  [ ] National Notification 
Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if 
available) of other body:   
Aquaculture Industry Division of the Ministry for Food, Agriculture,  
Forestry & Fisheries(MIFAFF) Tel:  +(82 2) 500 2375 Fax:  +(82 2) 503 9128 
E-mail:  mbj600@korea.kr 
13. Texts available from:  [ ] National Notification  Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point.  
Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:    
Aquaculture Industry Division of the Ministry for Food, Agriculture,  
Forestry & Fisheries(MIFAFF) Tel:  +(82 2) 500 2375 Fax:  +(82 2) 503 9128