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ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/Notif.98.365
28 July 1998
(98-2999)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade
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:  Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy (MOCIE) or Korean
National Institute of Technology and Quality (KNITQ)
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):  Electric appliances
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Revision of the
Ministerial Ordinance of the Electric Appliances Safety Control Act
6. Description of content:
1. MOCIE is to include the following 8 items into the list subject to type approval:
Electric Kimchi processing machine, bank note counting machine, cash register, projector
electronic recreational apparatus, closed-circuit TV camera, scanner, plotter, battery
charger.
(MOCIE shall establish standards which are in conformity with international
standards (e.g. IEC standard) for the above items during 1998; such standards will beapplicable to domestically manufactured goods as well as imported goods).
2. MOCIE is to exclude the following 22 items from the list subject to type approval:-
Heating cables, covered knife switches, machine controllers, pressure switches, plug bodies,
box switches, meter rater current limiters, flat  rate current limiters, fuse type current
limiters, transformers for lighters, repulsion start induction motors, electric exhausters forbriquet gas, electric bubble generators for bathtubs, electric sprinkler, electric mist sprayers,
electric pencil sharpeners, handtowel wrapping machines, record players, electric
typewriters, metal normal bends, metal bushings, metal universal fittings
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:
Consumer protection
8. Relevant documents:  Announcement will appear in the Official Gazette published by
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9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 January 1999
10. Final date for comments:  31 July 1998
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  ] or address, e-mail and telefax number of
the other body:
MOCIE (Tel  +82 2 500 2528,   Fax  +82 2 507 2155)
NITQ    (Tel  +82 343 84 1565,  Fax  +82 343 84 4387)           