G/TBT/N/THA/627  
13 September 2021  
(21-6767) 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:  Office of the Consumer Protection Board (OCPB), The Prime 
Minister's Office  
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 s hall be indicated if different from above:   
WTO/TBT Enquiry Point and Notification Authority  
Thai Industrial Standards Institute (TISI), Ministry of Industry  
Tel.: (662) 202 3504, 202 3523  
Fax: (662) 202 3511, 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 [   ], other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  General 
Product used in daily life  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Notification of 
the Committee on Labels, Re: Determination of Types of Products as the Label -Controlled 
Products B.E. … (5 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  In which it appears are products which may cause harm to the 
physical or mental health to the consumer due to the use of the prod uct or by its condition 
or the product that is regularly used by the general public, where the prescribing of 
product label is beneficial to the consumer in order to be informed the essential facts 
about that product but such products are not manufactured for sale by factory under the 
law on factories. Therefore, in order to protect the consumer to be safe from the use of 
the products, it is expedient to prescribe the category of products being subject to a 
controlled label.  
This notification published in the Royal Gazette and in effect on…Day 
of…(month)…B.E.2564 (2021)  
Remark: The Notification of the Committee on Labels which is issued under section 30 
paragraph three of the Consumer Protection Act, B.E. 2522 (1979), as amended by the 
Consumer Protection Act (No. 2), B.E. 2541 (1998) which enforces prior this notificatio n, 
shall apply only insofar as it is not a contrary to this notification.     G/TBT/N/THA/627  
 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  To Protect the consumer to be safe from the use of the products which may 
cause harm to the physical or mental health to the consumer due to the use of the product 
or by its condition or the product that is regularly used by the general public; Consumer 
information, labelling; Protection of human health or safety  
8. Relevant documents:   
By virtue of Section 30 paragraph three and Section 31 of the Consumer Protection Act, 
B.E. 2522 (1979) as amended by the Consumer Protection Act (No.2), B.E. 2541 (1998)     
9. Proposed date of adoption:  the Day of…(month)…B.E.2564 (2021)  
Proposed date of entry into force:  After ninety days following the date of its 
publication in the Government Gazette.  
10. Final date for comments:  Not applicable  
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) 202 3504, 202 3523  
Fax: (66 2) 202 3511, 354 3041  
E-mail: thaitbt@tisi.mail.go.th  
Website: http://www.tisi.go.th  
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