1. Reasons for Proposal

With an amendment to the Traffic Safety Act (Act No. 19374, promulgated on April 18, 2023, to be enforced on April 19, 2024) that mandates professional traffic safety training in order to strengthen the competence of persons in charge of traffic safety to ensure public safety from traffic accidents, this Partial Amendment aims to establish matters necessary for its implementation, including types/scope and methods of professional training as delegated by the law, establish a basis to open and transfer non-core functions of public institutions to the private sector or other institution in accordance with the New Government Public Institution Innovation Guidelines in order to increase the productivity and efficiency of public institutions, establish a basis to include companies that own or operate a large number of non-commercial trucks, which is a blind spot in traffic safety control, in the scope of transportation safety inspection, prescribe the scope of large trucks subject to mandatory periodic submission of tachograph records, improve the tachograph record sequence in order to rapidly prepare a management system for new motor vehicle types, improve inconsistency of terms in the names of motor vehicles exempted from installation of tachographs, and shorten the cycle of verification and evaluation of the implementation of traffic safety regulations, thereby strengthening the effectiveness of traffic accident prevention.

2. Major Provisions

A. Shorten the cycle of the verification and evaluation on implementation from every 5 years to every 3 years from the date of submission of traffic safety regulations (Article 5 (1) revised).

B. Establish a basis to include companies that own or operate a large number of non-commercial trucks in the scope of transportation safety inspection (Article 6 (1) 7 newly inserted).

C. Amend provisions to prescribe that training for persons partially exempt from the traffic safety supervisor examination may be conducted in a training institution for transport employees under Article 25 (3) of the Passenger Transport Service Act and a private training institution that has expertise and training record aside from the Korea Transportation Safety Authority (Article 24 revised and Article 24-2 newly inserted).

D. Consistency of legal terms for the names of vehicles exempt from installation of tachograph (Article 29 (4) 2 revised).

E. Specify the scope to large trucks with a high risk of traffic accidents among trucks subject to mandatory periodic submission of tachograph records (Article 29-5 newly inserted).

F. Improve the tachograph record sequence (Attached Table 5 amended).

G. Define the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and its agencies and local governments as traffic administrative agencies that are required to receive traffic safety professional training, and specify that any person who performs traffic safety duties shall receive initial training within 6 months and  regular training every 2 years after the initial training. Prescribe that persons who completed training for persons in charge of traffic safety under Article 44-3 of the Enforcement Decree of the Traffic Safety Act shall be exempted from all traffic safety professional training (Article 31-8 newly inserted).

H. Specify the type/scope of professional traffic safety training (Attached Table 9 newly inserted).