South Korea Regulatory News

The National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) in South Korea consults on a draft amendment of ‘Regulation on preparation methods for registration application dossier and hazard review meth...

The National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) in South Korea consults on a draft amendment of ‘Regulation on preparation methods for registration application dossier and hazard review methods’ under the Act on Registration and Evaluation of Chemicals (K-REACH) on August 25th, 2022.

This is to minimize the use of vertebrates for the chemical registration and hazard review by regulating hazard review method to use non-test data.

The main updates include:

• Addition of hazard view method based on non-test data definition and type (QSAR, correlation method, evidence method, etc.)
• Addition and specification of exemption conditions for each test category based on chemical substance properties or non-test data
• Addition of methods to submit opinions to the president of the NIER if a person who received the result of hazard review disagrees with it

If you have any opinion on this amendment, please write your opinion and submit it to the NIER.

The deadline for this consultation is Sep 14th, 2022.

South Korea enacts the ‘Regulation on Labeling and Advertising of Consumer Chemical Products’ under the Consumer Chemical Products and Biocides Safety Control Act (K-BPR) on July 28th, 2022. This ...

South Korea enacts the ‘Regulation on Labeling and Advertising of Consumer Chemical Products’ under the Consumer Chemical Products and Biocides Safety Control Act (K-BPR) on July 28th, 2022. This Regulation is to regulate phrases or expressions that manufacturers, importers, sellers or distributors of the consumer chemical products and biocides should not use when packaging or advertising the product. The regulation includes specific phrases restricted for labelling and advertising.

The main phrases restricted for labelling and advertising include:

•   Phrases that can be misunderstood as non-toxic
  • Example: Non-toxic, Toxic-zero
• Phrases that can be misunderstood as having no negative impact on environment and nature
  • Example: natural (exception: if the content is 100% natural), green, eco, care about environment, naturalism, pure, etc
• Phrases that can be misunderstood as having no harm and may lead to excessive use or incorrect use of the product
  • Example: no impact on human health, safe, no harmful substances, good, safe for children, etc
• Phrases that can be misunderstood as having no negative impact on human or animal
  • Example: well-being, care about human health, etc

This regulation will be reviewed and may be updated every three years.

This comes into effect from July 29th, 2023.

The National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) in South Korea updates ‘the results of hazard review of chemical substances’ under the Act on Registration and Evaluation of Chemicals (K-RE...

The National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) in South Korea updates ‘the results of hazard review of chemical substances’ under the Act on Registration and Evaluation of Chemicals (K-REACH). This update is mainly on new substances.

The main updates on new substances are as follows:

1) Updates on chemical substance name, etc: “2019-144", “2019-178", “2019-179", “2020-203" and “2022-21"

2) Updates on hazard information, etc: “2016-32", “2016-210", “2016-337", “2016-498", “2016-877", “2016-1126", “2017-33", “2017-286", “2017-311", “2017-414", “2017-548", “2017-589", “2017-812", “2018-523", “2018-699", “2019-148", “2019-200", “2019-257", “2019-315", “2019-452", “2019-466", “2019-821", “2020-47", “2020-230", “2021-26", “2021-27", “2021-38", “2021-78", “2021-84", “2021-178", “2022-102" and “2022-114"

2) Addition of 52 substances and their hazard information: from "2022-172" to "2022-223"

The amendment came into effect immediately.

The Ministry of Environment (MoE) in South Korea updates the Enforcement Rules of the Act on Registration and Evaluation of Chemicals (K-REACH). The main updates include: Requirement on hazar...

The Ministry of Environment (MoE) in South Korea updates the Enforcement Rules of the Act on Registration and Evaluation of Chemicals (K-REACH).

The main updates include:

• Requirement on hazard reviews including hazards, use, exposure and etc to designate substances subject to permission
• Omission on the Environmental hazard data for registration if water solubility is less than 1㎎/ℓ, or if the use is intermediate or process regulators
• Simplification on report exemption requirements for new chemical substances to be imported less than 0.1 tpa for research and development use

The amendment came into effect immediately.

The National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) in South Korea consults on a draft amendment of ‘the results of hazard review of chemical substances’ under the Act on Registration and Eval...

The National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) in South Korea consults on a draft amendment of ‘the results of hazard review of chemical substances’ under the Act on Registration and Evaluation of Chemicals (K-REACH).

The draft amendment mainly proposes revisions including:

• Notification of the results of hazard review of registered chemical substances
  • Addition of 52 new substances from “2022-172” to “2022-223”
• Revision of 37 notified new substances by adding additional information
• Notification of information on classified substances: the name of chemical substances, CAS no., toxic substance designation, main hazard, classification and labeling, etc

If you have any opinion on this amendment, please write your opinion and submit it to the NIER.

The deadline for this consultation is Aug 11th, 2022.

The National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) in South Korea updates ‘the results of hazard review of chemical substances’ under the Act on Registration and Evaluation of Chemicals (K-R...

The National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) in South Korea updates ‘the results of hazard review of chemical substances’ under the Act on Registration and Evaluation of Chemicals (K-REACH).

The main updates are as follows:

• New substances

1) Updates on hazard information: "2017-297 (CAS 12078-25-0)", "2017-1034 (CAS 22029-36-3)", "2018-113 (CAS 34140-91-5)", "2018-654 (CAS 1431957-88-8)", "2021-55 (CAS 85508-44-7)", "2021-116 (CAS 94994-62-4)", "2021-144" and "2021-200 (CAS 27288-07-9)".

2) Addition of 48 substances and their hazard information: from "2022-124" to "2022-171".

• Existing substances

1) Updates on hazard information: "2020-012 (CAS 10043-35-3, CAS 11113-50-1)", "2020-043 (CAS 8001-58-9)", "2021-063 (CAS 85535-85-9)", "2021-133 (CAS 3236-71-3)", "2021-144 (CAS 13360-57-1)", "2021-158 (CAS 75-59-2)", "2021-159 (CAS 75-57-0)".

2) Addition of 88 substances and their hazard information: from "2022-224" to "2022-311".

The amendment came into effect immediately.

The National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) in South Korea provides the list of banned substances for insecticide under the Consumer Chemical Products and Biocides Safety Control Act (K-BP...

The National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) in South Korea provides the list of banned substances for insecticide under the Consumer Chemical Products and Biocides Safety Control Act (K-BPR). This is for identifying banned substances contained in insecticide products. The list includes 67 different biocidal substances.