WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/KOR/42
31 October 2002
(02-6012)
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:   KOREA
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Korea Food and Drug Administration
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), (14 pages, Korean)
6. Description of content:
- The establishment of new specifications about Retinyl palmitate and two formulae
(cream and lotion) including 2% arbutin.
- The correction of omitted words and wrong characters in KFCC enforced on and
after 27 July 2001.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
The object of this enactment is to offer the convenience to manufacturers and importers who
want to register their products at KFDA.
8. Relevant documents: KFDA notification 2001-60 (Sep 10, 2001)
KFDA notification 2001-44 (July 27, 2001
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }To be determined
10. Final date for comments:   30 November 2002
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:
Div. of Quasi-drugs and cosmetics,
Dept. of Drug Evaluation,
Korea Food and Drug Administration.
#5 Nokbun-dong, Eunpyung-ku, Seoul 122-704, Republic of Korea.
Tel. +82-2-380-1721,2
Fax +82-2-387-7857