. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/KOR/12
13 June 2001
(01-2922)
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:   Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW)
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):   Foods
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Draft Amendment of
Ministerial Ordinance of Food Sanitation Act (41 pages, in Korean only,
http://www.mohw.go.kr/silkuk/view2.html?no = 3008)
6. Description of content:
1. As a follow-up measure of labelling requirements on genetically modified foods,
importer, manufacturer and processor of foods shall submit and keep for three years a
certificate proving that foods have been treated separately from GMO in the process ofproduction, harvest, storage and transport in the following two cases;
- when an importer does not label "genetically modified food" on the foods which are
subject to be labelled "genetically modified" by other regulations;
- or when a manufacturer or a processor does not label "genetically modified food"
on the food products which are made with materials that are subject to be labelled
"genetically modified" by other regulations.
2. Restriction on using the same or the similar trade name with infant formula in
advertising weaning foods.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Consumer protection
8. Relevant documents:   MOHW Advanced Notice 2001-42;  Official Gazette (25 May 2001)
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }13 July 2001G/TBT/N/KOR/12
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10. Final date for comments:   30 June 2001
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 Pharmaceutical and Food Policy
Health Policy Bureau
Ministry of Health and Welfare
Tel: +82-2-503-7557
Fax: +82-2-504-1456