WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/KOR/127 
7 November 2006 
 (06-5356) 
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 (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be  indicated if different from above:    
 2 Jungang-dong 
Gwacheon-si Gyeonggi-do Rep. of Korea 
Tel:   (+82) 2 509 7399/7400 
Fax:   (+82) 2 503 7977 
E-mail:    standard@ats.go.kr Homepage:  http://www.ats.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):   
 
Textile products (underwear, baby’s clothing, bedclothes), carpets, life-jackets for sports 
and leisure, mountaineering ropes, batteries (including rechargeable battery), engine 
antifreeze coolants, non-petroleum base motor vehicle brake fluids, tires for automobiles, 
some chemical products for domestic use (org anic surface-active agents, room perfumery, 
adhesives, polishes, deodorants, detergents, bleaches, fabric softeners), care-articles for 
young children, windshield washer fluids for automobiles, soft polyvinylchloride hoses, 
ceramic table wares, safety glasses for road vehicles, hand-operated mechanical ice grinders, portable jacks for automobiles, wa ter tanks, friction-resistant tiles for bathroom 
floor, mattresses of beds, warning ref1ex refl ectors for automobiles, protector for roller 
sports users, high-visibility warning jackets, school things (crayons and oil pastels, glues, 
clays, notebooks), portable ladde rs, wallpapers and floor coveri ngs on a base of paper, toys 
(including motion toys, motionless toys, toy ba lloons), portable laser devices, swimming 
goggles, skateboards, shopping trolleys, roller sk ates, children’s two-st age beds, children’s 
high chairs, children’s tricycles, portable c ooling/heating vessels, snowboards, snow-skis 
and other snow-ski equipment, stationary tr aining equipment, bicycles, carrier for baby, 
walking frames for the elderly, walking sticks  for the elderly, assisted walking frames for 
the elderly, disposable diapers, roller sho es, digital door locks, children’s jewellery 
accessories etc. 47 items. G/TBT/N/KOR/127 
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  The compliance of the above-mentioned products with their particular safety criteria shall 
be reported to the concerned authority by the manufacturer or importer (imported products 
only) before the products are sold in Korea.  The market surveillances will be done by the 
concerned authority then the products not complied with the safety criteria will be 
withdrawn in the market. 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document: 
Safety criteria (technical regulations ) on  47 items above (in Korean) 
6. Description of content:    
◦ life-jackets for sports and leisure, mountaineering ropes, batteries (including rechargeable 
battery), engine antifreeze coolants, non-petroleum base motor vehicle brake fluids, 
windshield washer fluids for automobiles, saf ety glasses for road vehicles, warning ref1ex 
reflectors for automobiles, protector for roller sports users, high-visibility warning jackets, 
friction-resistant tiles for bathroom floor, portable ladders, portable laser devices, 
shopping trolleys, roller skates, children’s high chairs, stationary training equipment, bicycles, roller shoes (18 items): the curren t safety inspection criteria are applied as safety 
criteria: 
- Safety criteria for batteries (including rechar geable battery) include the safety criteria 
for rechargeable battery as well as sa fety requirements for lead content; 
- The pair glass is included in the items subject to the safety criteria for safety glasses 
for road vehicles reflecting the standards of KS L 2003 and ECE R43; 
- Safety criteria for ‘scaffolding-controlled la dder’ is included in the scope of Part 2: 
scaffolding ladders of portable ladders;  
- As the diversity of the children’s high chai rs is acceptable, the children’s chair with 
special function whose the specification regard ing the limit of height may be deleted; 
- Safety criteria for ‘Part 4: treadmills’ of stationary training equipment include 
‘durability test of control switch’ and ‘electric safety test method’, and ‘accuracy rate’ 
and ‘rated motor horsepower’ should be indi cated on the label. In addition, some 
specifications are modified, likewise ‘Part 8: slider for sports’ is added to these safety criteria. 
◦ Textile products (underwear, baby’s clothing,  bedclothes), carpets, tires for automobiles, 
ceramic table wares, hand-operated mechanical ice grinders, portable jacks for 
automobiles, water tank, wallpapers and floor coverings on a base of paper, mattresses of 
beds, swimming goggles, skateboards, children’ s tricycles, snow-skis and other snow-ski 
equipment, roller skates, children’s two-st age beds (15 items): the current safety 
inspection criteria are applied as safety criteria: 
- Textile products (underwear, baby’s clot hing, bedclothes), carpets: these safety 
criteria will be modified equivalent to the criteria of Eko-tex standards, the harmful 
chemical substances and standard value ha ve been specified, and KS K 0611 has been 
adopted as the test method by the harmful chemical substances. 
◦ School things (crayon and oil pastels, glues, clays, notebooks), chemical products (organic 
surface-active agents, room perfumery, adh esives, polishes, deodorants, detergents, G/TBT/N/KOR/127 
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  bleaches, fabric softeners), toys (including motion toys, motionless toys, toy balloons), 
portable cooling/heating vessels (4 items): the current safety inspection criteria and safety verification criteria are applied: 
- Safety criteria for deodorants, bleaches, fabric softeners are newly established, and 
clays and glues are subject to the school things; 
- In particular for toys, these standards are m odified equivalent to European standards; 
domestic play devices are included in the prod ucts subject to the safety inspection, the 
safety for harmful chemical substances is highlighted. 
◦ Carrier for baby, children’s jewellery accesso ries, digital door locks, walking frames for 
the elderly, walking sticks for the elderly,  snowboards (7 items) are newly added to the 
items subject to the voluntary safety confirmation; safety criteria for plastic kitchen wares 
and utensils, soft polyvinylchloride hoses, dis posable diapers which are modified from the 
items subject to the quality mark (3 items ) have been established, adopting the KS 
standards, standards of US, Europe, Japan. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Article 19 of Quality Management and Sa fety Control of Industrial Products Act 
8. Relevant documents:   No. 2006-252, Notification of Korean Agency for Technology and 
Standards, Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy, Republic of Korea 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    December 2006 
March 2007 
10. Final date for comments:   December 2006 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [    ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:   
Consumer Product Safety Division 
Korean Agency for Technology and Standards  
 Tel : +82-2-509-7246 Fax: +82-2-509-7302 e-mail: consumer@kats.go.kr 
 
Full texts are now available on the Internet at URLs: http://ats.go.kr/english/cm_ 02/cm_02_06.asp?OlapCode=ATSU2106