. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/KOR/271 
28 April 2010  
 (10-2246) 
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:  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 :   
Consumer Product Safety Division 
Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) 96, Gyoyukwongil, Gwacheon-Si Gyonggi-Do, 427-716 KOREA Tel.:  (+82) 2 509 7247 
Fax:  (+82) 2 509 7302 
Email:  consumer@kats.go.kr Website:  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 applicab le, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Some revised bill for 
Quality Management and Safety C ontrol of Industrial Products Act 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  A draft revision for 
Quality Management and Safety Contro l of Industrial Products Act (Korean) 
6. Description of content:  A draft revision for Quality Mana gement and Safety Control of 
Industrial Products Act:  
• Operate a report center to prevent certification of the quality management system from 
weakening and publish a new regulation on conducting investigations related to 
certification. 
• Designate an agent to raise the reliability of certification of the quality management 
system and establish a regulation to support the agent. 
• Among the products subject to safety certifi cation, the products conducting product test 
according to the customs clearance or the delivery from a warehouse exempt from the 
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  • Establish the preliminary system for certif ication standards of new technologies to 
certify similar standards at home and abroad rapidly as to the products (e.g., new technology) which don’t have safety standards. 
• Change the number of the regular inspection of industrial products subject to safety 
certification from yearly to biyearly inspection. 
• Define the available period for reporte d products for self- regulatory safety 
confirmation as 5 years. 
• Make the basis of mutual recognition of the products subject to self- regulatory safety 
confirmation. 
• Affixing safety mark (KC) to the industrial products subject to safety/quality labelling 
has been operated through public notice, a nd we enact the provision in this law. 
• Publish a regulation that allows manufacture rs to receive fees when they commission 
private organization to report selfregulatory safety confirmation. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the natu re of urgent problems where applicable:  
Customer protection  
8. Relevant documents:   KATS Public Notice No. 2010-143   
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   }July 2011, or later 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from date of notification 
11. Text available from: National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:   
TBT Division 
KATS 96, Gyoyukwongil, Gwacheon-Si 
Gyonggi-Do, 427-716 
KOREA Tel.:  (+82) 2 509 7257 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://www.knowtbt.kr/eng/index.aspx   
And can also be downloaded here: 
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2010/tbt/kor/10_1527_00_x.pdf