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31 October 2023  
(23-7334) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  REPUBLIC OF KOREA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Ministry of Environment  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
Chemicals  Policy Division, Ministry of Environment  
11 Doum 6 -ro, Sejong, Republic of Korea  
Tel: 82 -44-201-6783, Fax: 82 -44-201-6786,  
E-mail: juhyunlee@korea.kr , Website: www.me.go.kr   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [  ], 5.7.1 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  New 
chemical substance and existing chemical substances  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft partial 
amendment of the Enforcement Decree of th e Act on Registration and Evaluation of 
Chemical Substances.; (6 page(s), in Korean)  
6. Description of content:  Currently, registration obligation under Article 10 of the Act on 
Registration and Evaluation of Chemical Substances is applied even to the che mical 
substances that are manufactured by recycling wastes. However, in the EU where 
operates a chemical registration instrument similar to that of Korea, registration 
obligation is exempted for chemical substances manufactured by recycling wastes when 
other business operator already completed registration of the same chemical substance. 
Therefore, Korea will allow an exemption from registration of chemical substance 
manufactured by recycling wastes when such chemical substance was already registered 
by oth er business operator.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Reducing trade barriers and facilitating trade  
8. Relevant documents:   
MOE Public Announcement No. 2023 -636 
9. Proposed date of adoption:  30 January 2024  
Proposed date of entry into force:  30 January 2024  G/TBT/N/KOR/1180  
 
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  10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
WTO Technical Barriers to Trade(TBT) Division  
Korean Agency for Technology and Standards(KATS)  
93, Isu -ro, Maengdong -myeon, Eumseong -gun, 
Chungcheongbuk -do, 27737  
Republic of Korea  
Tel.: (+82) 43 870 5315  
Fax: (+82) 43 870 5682 
E-mail: tbt@korea.kr  
Website: http://www.knowtbt.kr  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2023/TBT/KOR/23_13240_00_x.pdf  
 