. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/KOR/59
7 November 2003
(03-5969)
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:   National Veterinary  Research and Quarantine Service (NVRQS),
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
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, otherwis e national tariff heading.
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):   Livestock products for
human consumption, such as milk and milk  products, meat and meat products, and egg
products, etc.
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:
The Proposed Draft Amendment to the Labelling Standards for livestock Products
 (2 pages, in Korean)
6. Description of content:
The proposed amendments are as follows:
- Livestock products imported for the tourism industry with the objective of acquiring
foreign currency in accordance with the En forcement Decree of the Foreign Trade
Act should be labelled in Korean.
- For the livestock products containing egg, milk, buckwheat, peanut, soybean, 
wheat, mackerel, crab, pork, peach and tomato, which are known to cause allergy, 
each allergic ingredient should be declared regardless of the contents of food.
- Labelling of packaging materials for livestock products should be in accordance with
the labelling standard for food under the En forcement Decree of  the Food Sanitation 
Act
- The label on a package of infant formula for infant under 6 month age should 
contain the following statement; ‘Breast milk is best food for babies.’G/TBT/N/KOR/59
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7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Provision of consumer information
8. Relevant documents:   NVRQS Public Notice No. 2003-83 (14 October 2003) (available in
Korean)
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }31 December 2003
10. Final date for comments:   10 December 2003
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:
Division of Quarantine and Inspection
National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service
Tel: +82-31-467-1928
Fax: +82-31-467-1717
Email: rayk@nvrqs.go.kr