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Compliance Engineering
News Release from: SGS
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 19 January 2007
New rules for Korean electrical market
The South Korean Government has broadened the scope of its Electrical Appliance Safety Certification Act.
The South Korean Government has broadened the scope of its Electrical Appliance Safety Certification Act The act has been subject to several changes: there are 15 new products on the list of electrical appliances; safety inspection methods have been introduced for imported second-hand electrical appliances; and there is now a possibility of exemption from inspection if the results of routine and on the market inspections of a product have been in conformity with the standard in the two previous years
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Aug 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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This new upgrade to the Electrical Appliances Safety Control Act will enable certification bodies to order local authorities to dispose of or to remove from the market all electrical appliances that have not been certified or inspected.
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