[Reasons for Amendment]
To guarantee consumers' right to know, the Motor Vehicle Management Act was amended (Act No. 21182, Promulgated on Jan. 2, 2025, Effective on Jun. 3, 2026) to clarify the legal grounds requiring automobile manufacturers, sellers, etc., to provide buyers with information regarding the traction battery installed in an electric vehicle upon sale. Furthermore, to strengthen the effectiveness of the safety certification system for traction batteries (core devices, etc.), the amended Act allows for the cancellation of the safety certification if the same defect occurs more than a certain number of times. Accordingly, this amendment aims to delete the existing grounds for providing traction battery information in the lower statute, clarify the types of defects subject to the cancellation of safety certification, and prescribe matters delegated by the Act and those necessary for its enforcement.
2. Main Contents
A. New establishment of requirements for the cancellation of traction battery safety certification (Draft Article 40-21, Paragraph 3)
- Specifies the required number of occurrences of the same defect within the recent two years that triggers the cancellation of the traction battery safety certification, categorized by defect types—such as whether the defect fails to meet motor vehicle or component safety standards, or whether it caused a traffic accident resulting in fire or human casualties.
B. Specification of exemptions from the cancellation of traction battery safety certification (Draft Article 40-21, Paragraph 4)
- Specifies the types of minor defects among traction battery defects that are excluded from the scope of safety certification cancellation.
C. Deletion of the grounds for providing traction battery information (Draft Article 50, Paragraph 1, Subparagraph 4)
- Deletes the relevant provisions in the Enforcement Rule, as the legal basis requiring automobile manufacturers, sellers, etc., to provide traction battery information to buyers has been elevated to the parent Act.
