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KATS holds 58th Technical Regulation Committee Meeting
  • Registration date2024-12-13
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The Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) under the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) of the Republic of Korea held the 58th Technical Regulation Committee (“Committee”) meeting today in Seoul for discussions on the proposed plan to review the effectiveness of conformity assessment for the upcoming Phase 3 (2025–2027).


To ease burden on businesses, KATS has been evaluating the impact of newly introduced or tightened technical regulations on firms since 2013 in accordance with the Framework Act on Administrative Regulation. Since 2019, it has also been reviewing the need for the continued existence of legal certification systems once every three years in accordance with the Framework Act on National Standards. KATS runs the Committee under these objectives comprising private technical regulations experts.


In compliance with the Framework Act on National Standards, KATS reviewed 250 certification systems from 2019–2022 and in 2024, the Bureau of Regulatory Innovation and Reform under the Office for Government Coordination reviewed 257 certification systems. Today’s discussions covered measures for private experts and stakeholders to review systems requiring numerous certifications and impose a heavy burden on businesses and citizens, with an aim to overhaul certification systems that are lacking in terms of effectiveness and tend to impede corporate innovation.


Attendees also discussed plans with regard to reinforcing the Committee’s mandatory public-private joint review process to curb the further creation of new certifications and modify related rules to allow businesspersons to participate in the Committee to better incorporate onsite opinions. Socially controversial technical regulations and certification system revision measures may be obligated to undergo a Committee review.


KATS plans to table the abovementioned proposal to review the effectiveness of conformity assessment for the upcoming Phase 3 (2025–2027) and other key agendas to the Committee.