{"topic_id":"kr_control_fao_005","category":"korea-2026","context":"---\ntopic_id: kr_control_fao_005\ncategory: KR-CONTROL-FAO\ntitle: Article 8 (Registration of Manufacturing Business)\nlang: en\nsource: control_of_livestock_and_fish_feed_act_fao.pdf\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-18\ntokens_estimated: 2797\n---\n\nArticle 8 (Registration of Manufacturing Business)\n(1) Any person who intends to operate manufacturing business shall file for registration of business with\nthe Special Metropolitan City Mayor, a Metropolitan City Mayor, a Special Self-Governing City Mayor, a\nDo Governor or a Special Self-Governing Province Governor (hereinafter referred to as \"Mayor/Do\nGovernor\"), as prescribed by Ministerial Decree of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs: Provided, That\nregistration may not be filed, where a person engaged in agricultural activities, grain processing or food\nmanufacturing produces, sells, or supplies feed in an amount not exceeding that prescribed by Ministerial\nDecree of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, using the by-products prescribed by Ministerial Decree of\n\nAgriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, which are generated in the course of such activities, processing or\nmanufacturing (limited to by-products that constitute single-compound feed or supplementary feed).\n\n\n(2) Any person who intends to file for registration of manufacturing business in accordance with the main\nclause of paragraph (1) shall have manufacturing facilities meeting the standards prescribed by Ministerial\nDecree of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs: Provided, That the same shall not apply where a\nmanufacturer of animal drugs under Articles 31 and 85 of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act, a manufacturer\nof food or food additives under Article 36 of the Food Sanitation Act, or a manufacturer of health\nfunctional food under Article 4 of the Health Functional Foods Act intends to file for registration of\nmanufacturing business in order to produce and sell or supply feed with some of products the\nmanufacturer has directly manufactured. \n(3) Where a person who has registered his or her manufacturing business in accordance with the main\nclause of paragraph (1) with manufacturing facilities under the main clause of paragraph (2) intends to\nchange any of the manufacturing facilities prescribed by Ministerial Decree of Agriculture, Food and\nRural Affairs, the person shall report such change to the competent Mayor/Do Governor. \n\n(4) A Mayor/Do Governor upon receipt of a report prescribed in paragraph (3) shall notify the reporting\nperson of acceptance or non-acceptance of the report not later than ten days after the date of receipt of the\nreport. \n(5) Where a Mayor/Do Governor fails to notify a reporting person of acceptance or non-acceptance of a\nreport or of the extension of the handling period prescribed by the statutes pertaining to civil petitions\nwithin the period prescribed in paragraph (4), he or she shall be considered to accept the report on the date\nfollowing the date on which the period (in cases where the period of handling civil petitions is extended or\nre-extended pursuant to statutes pertaining to civil petitions, referring to the relevant period of handling)\nends. \n(6) Where a person who has registered his or her manufacturing business in accordance with the main\nclause of paragraph (1) intends to suspend or close down the business or resume the business after\nsuspension, the person shall report it to the competent Mayor/Do Governor as prescribed by Ministerial\nDecree of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. \n(7) Where a manufacturer (limited to those who have completed the registration under paragraph (1))\nreports business closure to the head of the competent tax office pursuant to Article 8 of the Value-Added\nTax Act or where the head of the competent tax office cancels the business registration, a Mayor/Do\nGovernor may cancel the registration ex officio. In such cases, the Mayor/Do Governor may request the\nhead of the competent tax office to provide information on the fact that the manufacturer has closed his or\nher business, and upon receipt of such request, the head of the competent tax office shall provide the\nrelevant information unless there is a compelling reason not to do so. \n","sources":[],"tokens_estimated":2797,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}