1. Reasons for Amendment and Major Provisions

As the Special Act on Imported Food Safety Management was revised (Act No. 20245; promulgated on February 6, 2024), this amendment aims to prescribe matters necessary for its enforcement such as allowing business entities prescribed by Presidential Decree, among business entities that have received permission, registered, or reported pursuant to the Food Sanitation Act, the Health Functional Foods Act, and the Livestock Products Sanitary Control Act to apply for approval for changing purposes to use or sell for purposes other than those in the import declaration by matching the scope of business entities subject to the approval to change purposes with the scope of business entities subject to being deemed business registration and adding cases of import declaration as materials imported for earning foreign currencies to those subject to the approval to change purposes.  

In addition, this amendment aims to improve and supplement some of the shortcomings that have emerged in the operation of the current system, such as clarifying the provisions to prevent business entities from interfering with import inspections.