. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/KOR/381 
18 July 2012  
 (12-3898) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Notifying Member:  REPUBLIC OF KOREA  
If applicable, name of local governme nt 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) 98, Gyoyukwonro, Gwacheon-Si Gyonggi-Do, 427-716 Korea 
Tel.:  (+82) 2 509 7246-9 
Fax:  (+82) 2 509 7302 Homepage:  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 applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Children playground 
equipment 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Proposed amendment 
of the Safety Certification Standard (Children playground equipment) (169 pages, in Korean)   
6. Description of content:  Revise safety criteria of play ground equipment subject to safety 
certification:  
- Delete the phrases of us er age and public place; 
- Describe applicable and non-applicable  items of children playground equipment in 
 detail; - Establish safety criteria of common applicable hazardous  substances on industrial 
 products for children; - Establish safety cr iteria of testing methods for environment harmful factors of 
 children activity spaces. 
*Total amount of lead, cadmium, mercury and he xavalent chrome is no more than 0.1% as 
mass fraction: 
- Add restrictive kinds of wood preservati ves to be used in manufacturing children 
 playground equipment; G/TBT/N/KOR/381 
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  - Establish regulation on the entrance width of  protective railing or fence to prevent a 
 fall; 
- Delete a clause to prohibit simultane ously installing toddler swing and child's 
 swing; - Regulate enlarged installation posit ion of horizontal shaft for slide; 
- Newly establish free fall height, free space and fall space of C-type revolving 
 playground equipment; 
- Establish appendix □, □, □, □, □. 
※Regarding consumer produc ts subject to the safety certific ation, manufacture rs or importers 
are required to confirm safety by reporting to safety certification body with attachment of test 
and inspection body certificates from testing la boratories and inspection bodies designated by 
models of the products prior to delivery of goods to the market or clearance through the 
customs to identify whether they conform to the safety criteria. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Consumer safety based on Article 14, Quality Management and Safety Control of Industrial 
Products Act  
8. Relevant documents:   KATS Public Notice No. 2012-0260   
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    October 2012, or later 
October 2013, 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 addres ses, if available of the other body:    
Technical Barriers to Trade(TBT) Division 
Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) 
96 Gyoyukwongil  
Gwacheon-si, Gyeonggi-do Republic of Korea 427-716 Tel.:  (+82) 2 509 7254/7255 Fax:  (+82) 2 509 7307 
E-mail:  tbt@kats.go.kr  
Website:  http://www.knowtbt.kr  
Full texts are available at: 
"http://www.kats.go.kr/htm/new s/announcement_view.asp?boa rdCode=0205&idx_tbl_Bullet
in=8263&page=1& "