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 (Unofficial Translation)  
 
Notification of Department of Agriculture  
Re: Conditions for Import of Eggplant  Seed s B.E. .... (....) 
 
     
 
 The Department of Agriculture has completed pest risk analysis for commercial 
importation of  eggplant  seeds.   
 By virtue of the provisions of Section 8(2) and Section 10 of the Plant Quarantine Act 
B.E. 2507 (1964) amended by the Plant Quarantine Act (No.3) B.E. 2551 (2008) . The 
Director -General of Department of Agriculture through the recommendation of the Plant 
Quarantine Committee hereby announces  phytosanitary import requirements of  eggplant  
seeds for sowing  as follow:  
1. This notification shall be called “Notification of Department of Agriculture,  Re: 
Condi tions for Import of Eggplant  Seed s B.E. .... (....).” 
2. This notification shall come into force as from sixty days following the date of its 
publication in the Government Gazette.1 
3.  The Notification of Department of Agriculture, Re: Conditions for Import of Eggplant 
Seeds B.E. 2563 (2020) dated 30 November B.E. 2563 (2020) shall be repealed.  
4. Permitted Plant S pecies  
 Eggplant  (Solanum melongena ) seeds 
5. Permitted C ountry  
 All countries  
6. Quarantine P ests of Concern  
A list of quarantine pests of concern to the Kingdom of Thailand for  eggplant  seeds is 
given in the Annex . 
7. Import Permit  
Import permit issued by Department of Agriculture (DOA) is required.  
8. Means of Conveyance  
Eggplant seeds must be imported from a port in any country to a port in the Kingdom 
of Thailand by air cargo  or sea cargo or land cargo.  
 
     
 
1 Published in the Government Gazette Vol. .., Part .., Page .., .. .... B.E. .... (....)  
 
This translation is provided by Department of Agriculture  as the competent authority for 
information purposes only. Whilst Department of Agriculture  has made efforts to ensure the 
accuracy and correctness of the translation, the original Thai text as formally adopted and 
published shall in all events remain the sole authoritative text having the force of law.   
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9. General Requirements   
(1) Eggplant  seeds must be  non-genetically modified organism s. 
(2) Eggplant seeds must be packed in  new, clean packaging  and free of live insects, 
and contamina tion (e.g. contaminant seeds, leaf, stem materials, soil and sand etc. ) or 
other potential carriers of quarantine pests.  
10. Specific Requirements  
Eggplant  seed lots are required to fulfill  one of the following phytosanitary import 
conditions , and/or a combination of the two conditions addressing each of the f ive 
quarantine pests  i.e. Clavibacter michiganensis, Pepino mosaic virus, Potato spindle 
tuber viroid, Tomato chlorotic dwarf viroid and  Columnea latent viroid . 
(1) Eggplant  seeds  were produced in a country where the quarantine pests in 
Section 10 are not known to occur .  OR 
(2) Eggplant  seeds  were officially tested by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) or Real 
time PCR method on a sample size not less than 3 ,000 seeds were taken from a 
sampling of lot, or in the case of a small seed lot, a sampling of lot as sample not less 
than 10 percent of weight and found free from the quarantine pests in Section 10.    
11. Phytosanitary Certification  
A phytosanitary c ertificat e (PC) or a phytosanitary certificate for re -export  issued by 
the National Plant Protection (NPPO) from the exporting country  is require d. The 
original copy  must accompany every con signment to the Kingdom of Thailand and 
bear one the following additional declaration , and/or a combination of the two 
declarations addressing each of the f ive quarantine pests:  
(1) “The consignment of eggplant seeds was produced in [ insert name of country ] where 
Clavibacter michiganensis, Pepino mosaic virus, Potato spindle tuber viroid, 
Tomato chlorotic dwarf viroid and  Columnea latent viroid  are not known to 
occur .” OR 
(2) “The consignment of eggplant seeds was officially tested and found free from 
Clavibacter michiganensis, Pepino mosaic virus, Potato spindle tuber viroid, 
Tomato chlorotic dwarf viroid and  Columnea latent viroid .”  
12. Import inspection  
(1) When the consignments  arrive at the point of entry in the Kingdom of Thailand, 
the import inspection must be conducted after confirming the respective 
documents accompanying the consignments concerned.  
(2) DOA reserved the right to have the consignment re -exported or destroyed at 
the importer’s expenses, if non -compliance with documentary or phytosanitary 
import requirements is identified.  
(3) All consignments must be ins pected for the presence of live insects, disease 
symptoms,  and contamination ( contaminant seeds, leaf, stem materials, soil, 
sand) when arrive at the point of entry in the Kingdom of Thailand . 
Subsequently, a representative sample must be drawn and submitted a 
designated laboratory for further analysis. The consignment must be held 
under quarantine pending results of the analysis.    
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(4) If genetically modified eggplant seeds are found, the consignment must be       
re-exported or destroyed at the importer’s expenses.  
 
(5) If the quarantine pests in Section 10 are found during import inspection, the 
consignment must be re -exported or destroyed at the importer’s expense.  
(6) If quarantine pests of Thailand concern as stipulate in the Annex  are found, the 
consignment must be treated with an appropriat e treatment (if available),  
re-exported or destroyed at the importer’s expenses.  
(7) If the consignments are frequently found to be non -compliance with 
phytosanitary import requirements or other cases, DOA may suspend, 
terminate or impose additional specific import conditions from a certain 
country as the Annex  of this notification.  
(8) If any live organism of potential quarantine concern to Thailand not listed in  
the Annex  is found, the consignment shall be treated with an appropriate 
treatment (if available), re -exported or destroyed  at the importer’s  expenses. 
The DOA reserved the right to temporary suspension of import  from the 
identified pathway until a risk assessment of intercepted organisms  is 
determined.  
(9) All applications (Application for Permit to Import Prohibited Articles for 
 Commercial Purposes (Form P.Q 2)) and Permits (Permit to Import Prohibited 
Articles for Commercial Purposes under the Plant Quarantine Act B.E. 2507 
and amended (Form P.Q 2 -1)) which are in the process and have not completed 
yet or have already completed on the day before this notification enters into 
force, they are still effective until the expiration date or a new action under this 
notification, depending on the case.  
 
                                    Issued on .............................................   
                  
 
Director -General  
                          Department of Agriculture  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
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Annex  
 
List of Quarantine Pests of  Eggplant  seeds  
Attached to the Notification of Department of Agriculture  
Re: C onditions for Import of Eggplant  Seeds B.E. …. (….) 
 
Scientific name  Common name  
Insects   
 Order Coleoptera   
  Family  Dermestidae   
            Trogoderma granarium  khapra beetle  
            Trogoderma inclusum  large cabinet beetle  
            Trogoderma sternale  trogoderma dermestid beetle  
            Trogoderma variabile  warehouse beetle  
Pathogens   
    Bacteria   
            Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum  zebra chip  
            Clavibacter michiganensis  bacterial canker of tomato  
    Clavibacter sepedonicus  potato ring rot  
            Pseudomonas cichorii  bacterial blight of endive  
            Pseudomonas corrugata  pith necrosis of tomato  
    Pseudomonas syringae pv. aptata  leaf spot of sugarbeet  
    Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci  wildfire  
            Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato  bacterial speck  
            Pseudomonas viridiflava  bacterial leaf blight of tomato  
    Fungi   
            Boeremia exigua var. exigua  leaf spot  
    Chalara elegans  black root rot  
            Didymella lycopersici  canker of tomato  
           Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. radicis -lycopersici  fusarium crown rot  
           Verticillium albo -atrum  verticillium wilt of lucerne  
   Virus   
           Alfalfa mosaic virus  alfalfa yellow spot  
    Broad bean wilt virus  lamium mild mosaic  
    Eggplant mosaic virus  eggplant mosaic  
            Pepino mosaic virus  spraing of potato  
 Tobacco rattle virus   
 Tobacco ringspot virus   
            Tomato black ring virus  ring spot of beet  
            Tomato busy stunt virus  Lycopersicon virus 4  
        Tomato mosaic virus  tomato mosaic  
            Tomato ringspot virus  ringspot of tomato  
  Phytoplansma   
            Candidatus phytoplasma solani  Stolbur phytoplasma  
  Viroid   
            Columnea latent viroid  tomato vein necrosis disease  
            Eggplant latent viroid   
            Potato spindle tuber viroid  spindle tuber of potato  
    Tomato chlorotic dwarf viroid