Updated Enforcement Rule of The Consumer Chemical Products and Biocides Safety Control Act K-BPR came into effect
Updated Enforcement Rule of The Consumer Chemical Products
and Biocides Safety Control Act (K-BPR) came into effect on December 31st, 2021.
This updated Enforcement Rule reflects matters mandated by
the ‘Belief System for Biocidal
Product Victims’
in K-BPR. ‘Belief System for Biocidal
Product Victims’ is a system to pay relief
promptly to biocidal product victims with health damage, and to impose and
collect contributions on responsible manufacturers and importers of such
biocidal products.
The major updates are as follows:
- Composition and operation of a biocidal product damage investigation team
- Details of requested data
- Establishment of effective period for decision to pay relief
- Operation of the relief account, and composition and operation of the relief account management committee
- Procedures for imposing and collecting contributions for biocidal product victims, etc
