Weekly Legislative Report for the week of Apr 25, 2022 – Apr 29, 2022
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1. Proposed Bill(s)
① Partial Amendment to the Act on Fair Transactions in Large Retail Business
This Amendment was designed to guarantee small and medium-sized merchants in large-scale stores, such as multi-complex shopping malls and department stores, the composition of store owners’ groups and collective bargaining rights and equal status between large-scale store owners and store owners in the large-scale stores.
② Partial Amendment to the Act on External Audit of Stock Companies
This Amendment exempts stock-listed corporations whose total assets are KRW 100 billion or less from audits on the content of their internal accounting control system.
2. Pending Bill(s)
③ Partial Amendment to the Electronic Financial Transactions Act
This Amendment declares principles-based regulation for autonomous security proportional to risks, stipulates the board's responsibility to establish financial security governance and the obligation to establish and submit financial security plans, introduces a regular financial security evaluation system to improve and rationalize financial security regulations, and strengthens IT outsourcing regulations.
3. Promulgated Bill(s)
④ Framework Act on Promotion of Data Industry and the Promotion of Use
This Bill provides the basis for the organization and operation of the specialized committee and secretariat that support the efficient operation of the “National Data Policy Committee,” which is scheduled to be launched as a pan-government data policy control tower that encompasses the public and private.
4. Bill(s) Undergoing Pre-Announcement of Legislation/Administration
⑤ Partial Amendment to the Rules on Occupational Safety and Health Standards
This Amendment revises safety standards to prevent excavator industrial accidents, adds 12 types of reproductive toxicants to the existing scope, stipulates subjects of preventive measures for workers exposed to heat waves and who are under the risk of having health disorders, and establishes safety regulations for carbon dioxide fire extinguishing facilities.
5. Serious Accidents Punishment Act ("SAPA") Related Editorials and Columns from Major Dailies