. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/KOR/102
3 September 2001
(01-4188)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  REPUBLIC OF KOREA
If applicable, name of local government involved:           
2. Agency responsible:  Korea Food and Drug Administration
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where
applicable).  Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or
practicable:  Pesticides
4. Title and number of pages of the notified document:  Advance Notice Concerning the
Proposed Amendment of the Standards and Specifications for Food (23 pages, available inKorean)
5. Description of content:  Establishing the Maximum Residue Limits of the pesticides in
apple, barley, butterbur, chard, Korean cabbage, Chwinamul, Garland chrysanthemum,
cucumber, Job's tears, garlic, grapes, ginseng (dried), Korean melon, leek, mandarin, marsh
mallow, melon, onion, peach, peanut, pear, red pepper, red pepper leaves, Perilla leaves,
persimmon, potato, rice, Sinsuncho, soybean, spinach, squash, strawberry, tea, tomato,
watermelon, Welsh onion and wild garlic for the following 45 pesticides:
- abamectin, acetamiprid, azoxystrobin, benfuresate, bifenthrin, carbofuran,
carbosulfan, chlorfenapyr, chlorpyrifos, cymoxanil, dichlorvos, dimethylvinphos,
dimethomorph, emamectin benzoate, esprocarb, etoxazole, famoxadone,
fenazaquin, fenbuconazole, fenothiocarb, fenpyroximate, fludioxonil, fluoromide,
fluquinconazole, fonofos, halfenpr ox, haloxyfop-methyl, hexaflumuron,
imibenconazole, imidacloprid, iminoctadine, kresoxim-methyl, lufenuron,
mepanipyrim, mepronil, methabenzthiaz uron, nuarimol, oryzalin, pendimethalin,
pyridaphenthion, pymetrozine, pyrimethanil, spinosad, silafluofen, tolylfluanid.
6. 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           
7. An international standard, guideline or recommendation does not exist [     ].
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:           
8. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  The Korea Food and
Drug  Administration Advance Notice No. 2001-75
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determinedG/SPS/N/KOR/102
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10. Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined
11. Final date for comments:  24 October 2001
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [     ] National notification
authority, [     ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if
available) of other body:  Korea Food and Drug Administration
12. Texts available from: [     ] National notification authority, [     ] National enquiry point
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:
International Trade and Information Office of the Director-General
Korea Food and Drug Administration#5 Nokbun-Dong, Eunpyung-Ku
Seoul, 122-704, Republic of Korea
Tel:  82-2-380-1647
Fax:  82-2-356-2893
E-mail:  wtokfda@kfda.go.kr