G/TBT/N/THA/666  
8 June 2022  
(22-4322) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  THAILAND  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  Thai Food and Drug Administration  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
WTO/TBT Enqui ry Point and Notification Authority  
Thai Industrial Standards Institute (TISI), Ministry of Industry  
Tel.: (662) 430 6831 ext. 2130  
Fax: (662) 354 3041  
E-mail: thaitbt@tisi.mail.go.th  
Website: http://www.tisi.go.th  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [  ], 5.7.1 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Hazardous 
Substances  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft 
Notification of the Ministry of Public Health Re: criteria and method for production, import, 
export, tr ansit and possession to providing trade in services of hazardous substance for 
which the Food and Drug Administration is responsible, B.E. ….; (11 page(s), in Thai)  
6. Description of content:  Ministry of Public Health has proposed the draft Notification o f 
the Ministry of Public Health Re:  criteria and method for production, import, export, transit 
and possession for hire of hazardous substance for which the Food and Drug 
Administration is responsible, B.E. …. .  
The purpose of this draft notification is to  revise Draft Notification of the Ministry of Public 
Health  Re: criteria and method for production, import, export, transit and possession to 
providing trade in services of hazardous substance for which the Food and Drug 
Administration is responsible which  was launched in BE. 2555.  
This draft Notification will replace the BE 2555 version. The major changes in this draft 
Notification are as follows: Firstly, a section of the requirements regarding transit of 
hazardous substances is added; so hazardous substa nces transiter shall control their 
transited hazardous substances not to be missing or transited via the route not indicated 
in the transit license and not to change hazardous substances to any other forms or 
containers. Secondly, who obtained the import n otifications and import permits must 
yearly report import quantity of their hazardous substances as the manufacturers and the 
exporters do (within January of the upcoming year). The report forms are changed to 
clarify that even there is no production, expo rt or import, it's still obliged to report. Also, G/TBT/N/THA/666  
 
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  it's required to have a plate at least stated that "No smoking, drinking, eating or storing 
food." in Thai in the hazardous and production and storage areas.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of human health or safety  
8. Relevant documents:  Draft Notification of the Ministry of Public Health Re: criteria and 
method for production, import, export, transit and possession to providing trade i n 
services of hazardous substance for which the Food and Drug Administration is 
responsible wich was launched in BE. 2555.  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  Approximately October 2022  
Proposed date of entry into force:  Approximately October 2022  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
WTO/TBT Enquiry Point and Notification Authority  
Thai Industrial Standards Institute (TISI), Ministry of Industry  
Tel.: (662) 430 6831 ext. 2130  
Fax: (662) 354 3041  
E-mail: thaitbt@tisi.mail.go.th  
Website: http://www.tisi.go.th  
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