Purpose

The purpose is to pursue convenience for construction machinery and domestic construction sites by reviewing specification and road driving compliance for construction machinery newly manufactured domestically or newly imported from overseas and it determines whether the design of newly manufactured/imported construction machinery is complying with designated specifications according to the Construction Machinery Management Act in terms of exterior, noise, braking distance, etc. and approve the format of construction machinery if results are satisfactory

Legal Basis

• Construction Machinery Management Act Article 18
• Enforcement Regulation of Construction Machinery Management Act Article 18-2

Process

Processing period

Type approval (change approval): 15 days

Formal report (change report): 10 days

Same type import report: 7 days

Contact

• TEL : 031)369-0265, 0270
• E-MAIL : topots@kotsa.or.kr, moumoo@kotsa.or.kr
• FAX : 031)630-5899

Construction Machinery Subject to Construction Machinery Form (Change) Approval

• 9 Types of tire construction machinery including new and used construction machinery

  (Excavator, loader, crane, borer, motor grader, dump truck, concrete pump, asphalt distributor, concrete mixer truck)

Construction Machinery Subject to Construction Machinery Form (Change) Declaration

• New and used construction machinery excluding those subject to format approval and tower crane

  Bulldozer, forklift, scraper, roller, road stabilizer, concrete batching plant, concrete finisher, concrete distributor, asphalt mixing plant, asphalt finisher, aggregate distributor, stone crusher, air compressor, pile driver/extractor, gravel digging equipment, dredger, excavator (caterpillar type), loader (caterpillar type), crane (caterpillar type), borer (caterpillar type), special construction machinery

Same Format Construction Machinery Import Declaration

• Subject: Imported construction machinery with same format as already imported construction machinery
• Application documents
• 01. Construction machinery format approval (declaration) application
• 02. Construction machinery specifications table (Attached Forms No. 3, 3-2, and 3-3 of Enforcement Regulation of Construction Machinery Management Act)
• 03. Copy of shipment documents
• 04. Copy of letter of credit
• 05. Documents that can prove secured post-management facilities and technical personnel according to Article 56 of Enforcement Regulation of Construction Machinery Management Act

Download Relevant Documents

• Download relevant documents for submission and data file download