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South Korea to Update Existing Chemical Inventory

Published on April 10th, 2019, South Korea's Ministry of Environment (MoE) is now consulting on the updates to the Existing Chemical Inventory (KECI) by MoE Notice No. 2019-214.

South Korea’s Existing Chemical Inventory[1] consists of two parts:

  • Annex 1 of 37,088 chemical substances domestically circulated in Korea prior to Feb 2nd, 1991; and

  • Annex 2 of 7,390 chemical substances published by MoE after hazard evaluation under TCCA after Feb 2th, 1991.

The proposed updates to KECI include:

  • Adding 1 substance (KE-35662) into Annex 1

  • Updating chemical name of three substances (KE-03386, KE-08677, KE-34673) in Annex 1

  • Deleting 5 non-toxic substances (KE No. 2015-3-6230, 2015-3-6253, 2015-3-6257, 2015-3-6258, 2015-3-6460) from Annex 2

  • Adding 2 substances (given KE No. 2019-3-7260, 2019-3-7261) into Annex 2

  • Disclosing the chemical name of 304 substances (They previously applied for confidential information protection with only generic names and the validity for data protection has expired) in Annex 2

The details are accessible here[2].

The last updates to the KECI were made in Feb 2019 by MoE Announcement No. 2019-32 (CL news[3]).

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