SCC Newsletter 2020 - NewsFlash

REGULATORY NEWSFLASH

Date: 5 May 2020

» BIOCIDES

South-Korea amends the Consumer Chemical Products and Biocide Safety Management Law (K-BPR), allowing Only Representatives and changing important deadlines

The recent amendments of the K-BPR, as in force from March 24, will now allow non-Korean manufacturers to appoint a South Korea-based only representative (OR) to handle their substance approvals from January 1st, 2021. The amendment also removed notification deadlines for active substances, allowing companies to continue to notify active substances.

For each active substance a company wants to have approved, a so called approval plan must be submitted to NIER (Korean National Institute of Environmental Research). Originally the notification deadline was set at the end of 2020. In the recent amendment, this has been changed to 12 months after the notification. For more information, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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