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Monday, October 17, 2016International

Korea plans to ban microbeads

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South Korea has just transmitted to WTO a draft proposition aimed to amend its Regulation on Safety Standards of Cosmetics. On the agenda: the ban of plastic microbeads.

Reading time
~ 1 minutes

Notification date

 6 October 2016

Content

Ban the use of microbeads in cosmetics (less than or equal to 5mm in size) [Annex 1]

Proposed date of adoption

To be determined

Proposed date of entry into force

To be determined

Final date for comments

 60 days from notification

For further information
• See the draft text (4 pages, in Korean)

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