G/TBT/N/THA/631  
4 October 2021  
(21-7443) 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:  Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health  
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:   
Office of Tobacco Products Control Committee  
Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health  
Tel: (662) 590 3852  
Fax: (662) 590 3852  
Website: https://ddc.moph.go.th/otpc  
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):  Tobacco 
product  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Notification of 
the Ministry of Public Health RE: Criteria, Methods and Conditions on Tobacco Product and 
Cigarette Packaging B.E. 2564 (2021) (12 page(s), in English; 13 page(s), in Thai)  
6. Description of content:  The Ministry of Public Health has repealed the Notification of 
the Ministry of Public Health RE: Criteria, methods and conditions on tobacco product and 
cigarette packaging B.E. 2561 (2018) and replaced with the Notification of th e Ministry of 
Public Health RE: Criteria, methods and conditions on tobacco product and cigarette 
packaging B.E. 2564 (2021)  
This notification aims to revise the format and characteristic of domestic and imported 
cigarette packaging, e.g.  
- Brand name or variant name of cigarette product must be printed with Thai or English 
letters, using the normal TH SarabunPSK font throughout. The font size must not exceed 
20 points. In case a variant name must be displayed, the font size must not exceed 15 
points. Such  names must be printed on a dark greenish brown background with matt 
finish (Pantone Opaque Couche – Pantone 448 C) at the center of both sides of the side 
with the largest surface area,which is not a label display area depicting warning graphic 
images and  messages about the harmful effects of cigarette and the Quitline number.  
-  Rotating warning labels with new graphic images and messages.  G/TBT/N/THA/631  
 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  - reducing  the attractiveness of tobacco products; - eliminating the effects 
of tobacco packaging as a form of advertising and promotion; - addressing  package 
design techniques that may suggest that some products are less harmful than others; 
and - increasing  the noticeability and effe ctiveness of health warnings; Other  
8. Relevant documents:   
• The Government Gazette No. 138, Special section 157 ngor, Dated 14 July 2021  
• Notification of the Ministry of Public Health RE: Criteria, methods and conditions 
on tobacco product and cigarette packaging B.E. 2561 (2018)  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  - 
Proposed date of entry into force:  11 January 2022  
10. Final date for comments:  - 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] 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  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2021/TBT/THA/21_6314_00_e.pdf  
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