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Proposed Korea RoHS/ELV Act and Regulations
July 2007 (07B-135)


The Korean Ministry of the Environment has issued a draft for public consultation for the Enforcement Ordinance/Enforcement Regulation of the Act on the Recycling of Electrical and Electronic Equipment and Vehicles, offering interested stakeholders the opportunity to comment.


Enforcement Ordinance Contents
(click on title for Korean version or visit

www.kece.eu/rohs/kr/17_May_07_Korea_RoHS_EO.pdf)
Enforcement Regulation Contents
(click on title for Korean version or visit

www.kece.eu/rohs/kr/17_May_07_Korea_RoHS_ER.pdf)
a) products subject to restriction on the use of hazardous substances;
b) concentration limits of hazardous substances;
c) establishment of annual recycling rate;
d) declaration on the compliance with the concentration limits of hazardous substances;
e) provision of recycling information;
f) mandatory recycling rate for electrical and electronic equipment;
g) recycling rate and methods for end-of-life vehicles;
h) permission of collective recycling schemes;
i) submission of recycling performance for end-of-life vehicles; and
j) registration of end-of-life vehicle recyclers.
a) recycling methods and standards of electrical and electronic equipment,
b) submission of a recycling requirement implementation plan,
c) submission of a recycling requirement implementation report, and
d) standards for the registration of end-of-life vehicle recyclers
.

Comments on the drafts are accepted by 21 July 2007, contact:
Name: Mr. JaeYoung LEE
Email:
jaeyoung@me.go.kr
Fax : +82-2-504-9289

General enquiries:
Name: Ministry of the Environment
Tel. +82-2-2110-6953

Korea RoHS Laws  and Regulations (English Version)
 The previous version of the Act, which was passed in the Second Reading of the National Assembly, can be found at: (
http://www.kece.eu/data/Korea_RoHS_ELV_April_2007_EcoFrontier.pdf).
 
For More Information: We offer comprehensive RoHS compliance services for electrical and electronic products. For further details, please visit:
www.electrical.bureauveritas.com or contact your client services representative directly.

Source:
Korea Environmental Council in Europe website, Korea RoHS Act and Regulations, 
http://www.kece.eu/rohs/kr.htm

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