K-REACH and TCCA on Exemptions from Registration/Hazard Examination

K-REACH

TCCA

Chemicals that fall under any of the following is exempted from registration without submitting any exemption notification: 1.) Chemical substance imported as already equipped in a machinery; 2.) Chemical substance imported together with relevant machineries or equipments for the purpose of trial test; 3.) Chemical substance that are contained and are not released from a solid product with specific function; Chemicals that fall under any of the following is exempted from registration after submitting the exemption notification: 1.) Existing chemical manufactured/imported below one ton per year (except those with high risk); and 2.) Chemical for sole purpose of research and development; 3.) Designated under Presidential Decree, chemicals that have received exemption confirmation from Ministry of Environment such as those that are manufactured or imported into South Korea in a volume less than 10 ton for the sole purpose of exportation. Note of Caution: Please note that no enforcement decree or enforcement regulation has been released under K-REACH to officially set the polymer exemption. Upon the release of any public notice or announcement concerning it, we update such.

Chemicals that fall under any of the following is exempted from hazard examination after submitting the exemption notification: 1.) New chemicals manufactured or imported in a quantity below 100Kg; 2.) New chemicals used only by an investigator or researcher within a restricted area for the purpose of developing a product that contains such chemicals or for an improvement of the process; 3.) New chemicals manufactured or imported in a quantity not more than 10 ton per year or chemicals manufactured or imported in a quantity not more than 10 ton per year that are imported or manufactured in order for produce a chemical for the sole purpose of exporting the whole quantity; 4.) Polymers with number average molecular weight greater than 1,000 and with constituent monomer that is neither a new chemical nor a poisonous substance; 5.) A polymer that is not enlisted in Korea Existing Chemical List (aka a new chemical) is liable for exemption if its monomers, excluding those with content ratio lower than 2%, result to a polymer that is an existing chemical. 6.) Block polymers whose blocks are not new chemicals; 7.) Graft polymers whose stem and branch sections are not new chemicals; 8.) Non-ionic polymers whose number average molecular weight is greater than 10,000 9.) Chemicals which have been manufactured or imported in South Korea prior to February 2, 1991 (If there are any available evidence of a chemical being commercialized in Korea prior to February 2, 1991, then such chemical can apply for an exemption); and 10.) Surface treated chemicals in which both the base and the treated chemicals do not contain the new chemicals.