CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1(Purpose) #
The purpose of this Act is to contribute to facilitating the innovation of science and technology, upgrading the industrial structure, and developing information society, thereby enhancing national competitiveness and improving the welfare of citizens by providing for fundamental matters for the establishment of the national standards system.
[This Article Wholly Amended on Apr. 1, 2009]
Article 2(Scope of application) #
This Act shall govern economic and social activities in all areas, to which national standards based on science and technology shall apply mutatis mutandis.
Article 3(Definitions) #
The definitions of the terms used in this Act shall be as follows: <Amended on Dec. 30, 2014; Jun. 12, 2018>
1. The term "national standards" means all standards provided for in this Act, such as measurement standards, reference standards, codified standards, and technical regulations nationally approved as scientific and technical public standards in order to enhance accuracy, rationality, and internationality in every area of the nation's communities;
2. The term "international standards" means internationally approved standards, which are established to facilitate the exchange of materials and services between nations and enhance international cooperation in the fields of intellectual, scientific, technical, and economic activities;
3. The term "measurement standards" means a physical scale, measuring instrument, reference material, measuring method and measurement system used as the standards for defining, expressing, preserving and practically realizing a unit of measurement of a quantity in the shape of an object or the value of a specific quantity in the industrial, scientific and technical fields;
4. The term "national measurement standards" means nationally approved measurement standards, which are standards for giving a certain value to different standards of a related quantity;