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The Ministry of Environment (MoE) issued a revised draft of the Presidential Decree (Enforcement Decree) of the Act on Registration and Evaluation of Chemical Substances (K-REACH) on 20 Apr, 2016 by MoE Notice No.2016-347. The public consultation will end on 30 May.
The Presidential Decree was originally published on 9 Dec 2014 and came into force on 1 Jan 2015. Following the revisions made to K-REACH Act on 27 Jan 2016 (CL news), some details in the Presidential Decree were revised. Compared to the current version, major changes are made as below:
Operational scope of the Chemical Substance Evaluation Committee is further specified (Article 5 of Presidential Decree).
Currently existing chemical substances with sufficient information indicating low hazard, if designated and published by the MoE, can be exempt from annual reporting. In the draft proposal both existing chemical substances and new chemical substances can be exempt as long as they satisfy the above criteria (Paragraph 4, Article 8 of Presidential Decree).
For chemical substances in which annual production or import quantity is less than 10 tons and the hazards posed to human health and the environment can be determined by applying QSAR, part of the testing data can be omitted according to Article 14 of the K-REACH Act. However, the applicable range for QSAR data will expand and there would be no tonnage limit for QSAR utilization in this aspect according to the draft proposal (Paragraph 3, Article 13 of Presidential Decree).
Support to SMEs in terms of chemical registration and evaluation will be specified (Paragraph 2, Article 29 of Presidential Decree).
Delegation and entrustment of Authority, i.e. issues regarding revocation of approval of the use of results of hazard evaluation were entrusted to NIER; issues regarding support to SMEs were entrusted to KCMA (Paragraph 1 and 3, Article 31 of Presidential Decree).
This revision proposal was made to give more support to SMEs and facilitate industry compliance. If you have any comments on the draft revision, please contact the authority via
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 044-201-6771
Fax: 044-201-6786
