. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/KOR/17
10 August 2001
(01-3974)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated 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:   Korea Food and Drug Administration – KFDA
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:           
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ X], 2.10.1 [    ], 5.6.2 [    ], 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):   Functional cosmetics
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Korean Functional
Cosmetics Codex (KFCC), (40 pages, in Korean)
6. Description of content:   This notification (KFCC) includes the specifications for
4 whitening, three anti-wrinkle and 18 suntan & sunscreen ingredients.  If some cosmetics
contain one of the 7 ingredients (whitening and anti-wrinkle) or one or several kinds of the
18 ingredients (suntan & sunscreen) as main components, they belong to objects of
exemption from introduction of data relating to evaluation from introduction of data relatingto evaluation for efficacy and safety of the cosmetics by previous KFDA notification.
According to this notification, the partial document requirements on the Specification and
Test method of the cosmetics including the 25 ingredients will be discharged.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
To offer the convenience referring to drawing up the Specification and Test method of
Functional Cosmetics to a person who applies to the evaluation of Functional cosmetics.
8. Relevant documents:   KFDA Notification 2001-44
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }27 July 2001
10. Final date for comments:           G/TBT/N/KOR/17
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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:
International Trade and Information Office
Korea Food and Drug Administration#5 Nokbun-Dong, Eunpyung-Ku
Seoul, 122-704
Republic of Korea
Tel: +82-2-380-1643
Fax: +82-2-356-2893