The Ministry of Environment (MoE) in South Korea consults on a draft amendment of ‘the Rules on Approval of Chemical Safety Information Exception’ under the Act on Registration and Evaluation of Chemicals (K-REACH) on October 18th, 2022. Currently, there is a risk that trade secret approved for non-disclosure under other regulations may be exposed through the K-REACH registration number (or report number), since K-REACH registration number (or report number) is not subject to non-disclosure. Therefore, this amendment aims to protect trade secret by including K-REACH registration number (or report number) as non-disclosure.

The draft amendment mainly proposes revisions including:

• In case of approval for non-disclosure under other act, K-REACH registration number (or report number) is included as non-disclosure
  • The information on whether a substance is registered or reported will be still marked to show its compliance under K-REACH

If you have any opinion on this amendment, please write your opinion and submit it to the MoE.

The deadline for this consultation is Nov 7th, 2022.