According to the current Act on the Safety Control of Hazardous Substances and Chemical Substances Control Act, permission from a City Mayor/Do Governor or the Minister of Environment is required to do business storing and handling hazardous substances or storing and keeping hazardous chemicals. This requirement applies to hazardous substances or chemicals in the status of foreign goods entered and stored in bonded areas that have been licensed.

However, unlike hazardous substances which are licensed only when legal permission requirements are met upon license review for bonded warehouses under the Notice on the Operation of Licensed Bonded Areas, whether hazardous chemicals are permitted is not separately reviewed under applicable laws and even the status of warehouses that can store hazardous chemicals is not managed.

In this regard, this Act aims to grant a license to a person who wants to store hazardous substances or chemicals and applies for and receives permission under applicable laws; however, the license can be revoked for any violation of such laws. It is required to check whether the operator of destination bonded areas has obtained permission under applicable laws when reporting the bonded transport of hazardous substances or chemicals (Articles 174 paragraph 4, the latter part of Article 215 newly inserted, and Article 178 paragraph 2).

Articles 174, 178, and 215