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ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/KOR/386 
23 March 2011 
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Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
1. Notifying Member:  REPUBLIC OF KOREA
 
If applicable, name of local government involved:    
2. Agency responsible:  Korea Food and Drug Administration 
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):  Equipments, containers and packages for food products 
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:  Proposed amendments of Sta ndards & Specifications for 
Equipments, Containers and Packages  Language(s):  Korean  Number of pages:  26 
6. Description of content:  The proposed regulation revises the Common Manufacturing 
Standards for Equipments, Containers and Packages and the material specification of food 
contact materials. 
(1) Newly establishes, a regulation to ban th e use of bisphenol A in the manufacture of 
infant feeding bottles. 
(2) Establishes migration limits for:  
• vinyl acetate in polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and ethylenevinylacetate 
copolymer(EVA) 
• 1,4-butanediol in polybutyleneterephthala te(PBT) and butylenesuccinate-adipate  
copolymer(PBSA) 
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. 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)   
[ ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number)    
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number)    G/SPS/N/KOR/386 
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  [X] 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:  The Korea 
Food and Drug Administration Advance Noti ce No. 2011-21 (7 March 2011) (available in 
Korean) 
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) :  To be determined. 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) :  To be determined. 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  [ ] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) :  To be determined. 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Final date for comments:  [X] Sixty days  from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) :  22 May 2011 
Agency or authority designated to handl e comments:  [ ] National Notification 
Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if 
available) of other body:   
International Trade & Statistics Office  
Korea Food & Drug Administration #643 Yeonje-ri, Gangoe-myeon, Cheongwon-gun, Chungbuk 363-951 Korea 
Tel:  +(82 43) 719 1554 
Fax:  +(82 43) 719 1550 E-mail:  wtokfda@korea.kr 
13. Texts available from:  [ ] National Notification Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point.  
Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:    
Documents are available from the Korea Food and Drug Administration website 
(http://www.kfda.go.kr ).  Also available from:  
International Trade & Statistics Office  
Korea Food & Drug Administration 
#643 Yeonje-ri, Gangoe-myeon, Cheongwon-gun, Chungbuk 363-951 Korea Tel:  +(82 43) 719 1554 Fax:  +(82 43) 719 1550 
E-mail:  wtokfda@korea.kr