Under the current law, the manufacturer or importer of children’s products subject to safety verification is required to check whether each model of a children’s product meets safety standards after receiving a test and inspection and report to the Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy.

However, despite the discovery of a risk in a children’s product subject to safety verification through a safety investigation, which is followed by the recall order, there is no basis under the current law to cancel the safety verification report, and a problem occurs when the unsafe children’s product is still distributed in the market under the same report number.

In this regard, this Act aims to create a provision for the disposition that makes a safety verification report ineffective, add the Korean Institute of Product Safety as one of the institutes entrusted with authority, and prepare the basis to re-designate the Mayor/Do Governor’s authority to ensure practical effectiveness (Articles 22 (9) 8, 24-2, and 37).

Define safety verification reporting (Article 22) and a disposition that makes a safety verification report ineffective (Article 24-2).