South Korea Outlines Proposed Revisions to K-REACH Support Regulations

On May 30th, 2018, South Korea Ministry of Environment (MOE) issued a revision forecast to some articles of the implementation decree for K-REACH, including:

1. Supplement of the definition of transported isolated intermediate;

2. The grace period of the registration of existing chemicals;

3. The tonnage threshold of the chemicals that are subject to registration. Specifically speaking, if the manufacture/import of an existing chemical is less than 1 ton/year for a company, but the total manufacture/import across the country is above 10 ton, then this existing chemical would be required to be registered. For new chemicals, the above tonnage criteria would be 0.1 ton/year and 1 ton/year;

4. The exemption of the registration for certain chemicals;

5. The materials that should be submitted when modifying the registration of chemicals;

6. The measures and standards for the fines;

7. The concentration threshold for the disclosure of composition.

MOE also announced some revisions to the implementation rules for K-REACH, including:

1. The notification of existing chemicals and the modification of the notification;

2. The registration of some low-risk chemicals and the transported isolated intermediates;

3. The notification of new chemicals less than 100kg;

4. The procedure of the joint registration;

5. The information submission of hazardous chemicals;

6. The management measures of the risk concerned products are deleted because they are under the regulation of K-BPR now.

The revision forecast will be open to public consultation until Jul 9th, 2018. The detailed information can be found here (in Korean).