. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/KOR/220 
27 October 2006 
 (06-5184) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  REPUBLIC OF KOREA
 
If applicable, name of local government involved:   
2. Agency responsible:  National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service (NVRQS) of the 
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF)  
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where 
applicable):   Honey comb  
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  Any 
trading partners.  
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:  Proposed Administrative 
Ordinance on Sanitary re quirements for the import of honey comb (1page)  
6. Description of content:   
The imported honey comb shall be accompanied by  a veterinary health certificate specifying 
in detail the fact that it meet with the following requirements: 
 
1. Apiary and facilities of origin 
1.1 Prior to the pre-embarkation quarantine, there has been no outbreak of harmful mites 
such as Acaria spp., Varroa spp. and Tropila elaps spp. for 2 years within a radius of 
50km from the apiary and facilities of origin. 
1.2 Prior to the pre-embarkat ion quarantine, there have be en no outbreak of American 
foulbrood disease, European foulbrood di sease, Nosemosis, Chalkbrood disease, 
Sacbrood and bee paralysis for 2 years with in a radius of 10km from the apiary and 
facilities of origin. 
1.3 The apiary and facilities of origin ha ve never brought in bees, their products, and 
equipments from other bee apiary which is  not under sanitary control and direct 
supervision of the veterinary authorities of  the exporting country. And the apiary and 
facilities should report immediately the case  and suspected case of disease outbreaks to 
the veterinary authorities  of the exporting country. 
2. The honey comb has not been contacted with  live bees within 7 days before shipment. 
3. The honey comb has been irradiated at 25kGy using Cobalt-60 in a fa cility authorized by 
the government of exporting country and the st acks of honey comb were no thicker than 
100mm during irradiation. 
4. There have been no foreign materials such as larvae, pupae, bee(live or dead), bee parasite, 
plant material(honey, propo lis, pollen, etc) and so forth in the honey comb. 
5. The honey comb has been packed with sterilized and airtight container.  G/SPS/N/KOR/220 
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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   
8. International standard, guideline or recommendation: 
[   ] Codex Alimentarius Commission,  [ X ] World Organization for Animal Health 
(OIE), [   ] International Plant Protection Convention,  [   ] None 
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate 
reference and briefly identify deviations:  Veterinary Administrations of importing 
countries should require for used e quipment associated with beekeeping...  
9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  To be available in the 
internet homepage of NVRQS ( http://www.nvrqs.go.kr , Available in Korean) 
10. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined.  
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined.  
12. Final date for comments:  Sixty (60 days) after the date of notification  
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [   ] National notification 
authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if 
available) of other body:   
Quarantine and Inspection Division 
National Veterinary Research and  Quarantine Service 
Tel:  (+82) 31 467 1947 
Fax:  (+82) 31 467 1717 E-mail:  parkky@nvrqs.go.kr  
13. Texts available from:  [   ] National notification authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, 
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:   
Livestock Products Standard Division 
National Veterinary Research and  Quarantine Service 
Tel:  (+82) 31 467 1968 
Fax:  (+82) 31 467 1974 E-mail:  parkky@nvrqs.go.kr