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Notification Detail :: G/TBT/N/KOR/1177

Notification No.

Notification Type

Notifying Member

Date of Notification

Final Date for Comments

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Title

- Proposed Amendments to the enforcement rule of the Act on Promotion of Environment-friendly agriculture and Fisheries, and Management of and Support for Organic Foods (11 pages, including  Korean version)

Objective

Protection of human health or safety (TBT)

Product Covered

Environment-friendly agricultural products, Materials for organic farming

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ICSCODE

65.020.20 - Plant growing; 67.040 - Food products in general

Keywords

Food standards

Specific Regions

Description

 The main amended contents in this document are as follows:_x000D_
A.    Improvement of certification criteria for organic foods, etc. (Annex 4 and 14 of the draft)_x000D_
1)    Revised the pesticide detection standard for environment-friendly agricultural products from “non-detection” to 1/20 or below of MRLs set for general agricultural products, and if the MRLs are not set, the standard is revised to 0.01mg/kg or below._x000D_
2)    Added conditions for certified business entities to raise the effectiveness of conserving agricultural environment and to prevent unintended contamination._x000D_
B.    Rationalization of criteria for administrative dispositions against business entities of organic agricultural materials who have obtained public disclosures (Annex 20 of the draft)_x000D_
-    Administrative dispositions are applied to the products of the business entities that have obtained public disclosures that have failed to comply with the certification criteria, if there are problems in raw materials or ingredients, the administrative dispositions would be applied to the inappropriate raw materials or ingredients._x000D_
C.    Change of templates (templates in Appendix 35, Appendix 42 and Appendix 45)_x000D_
-  Revised the template to ensure the public disclosure of organic agricultural materials is_x000D_
  easily readable and easy to write (Appendix 35) and deleted from the templates items that _x000D_
  may be changed frequently (Appendix 42 and 45).

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