G/TBT/N/THA/547  
 
7 June 2019  
(19-3951) 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:   
Thai Food and Drug Administration  
Bureau of Cosmetics and Hazardous Substances Control  
Tiwanon Road, Nonthaburi 11000, Thailand  
Tel: (662) 590 7298  
Fax: (662) 591 8483  
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):  
Hazardous  Substances  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft 
Notification of the Ministry of Public Health: The Notification of the Fact relating to Type  1 
Hazardous  Substances under Responsibility of Thai Food and Drug Administration 
(5 page(s), in Thai)  
6. Description of content:  Ministry of Public Health has proposed the draft notification of 
the Fact relating to Type 1 Hazardous Substances under responsibility of  Thai Food and 
Drug Administration as the following;  
• Repeal "Notification of the Ministry of Public Health regarding the notification of 
the Fact relating to Type 1 Hazardous Substances  under responsibility of Thai 
Food and Drug Administration B.E. 2549 (2 006)" 
• Any person who wishes to manufacture or import the type 1 hazardous 
substances shall notify the fact relating such hazardous substance to the authority 
before the first production or importation  
• Improve the details in the form "Wor Or./Sor Thor 5 " 
• Create the new form "Wor Or./Sor Thor 16 " for amending the details in the 
notification receipt of type 1 hazardous substance  
• Cancel the registered mailing channel  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  To imp rove the notification procedure and the notification receipt of type 1 
hazardous substances.  G/TBT/N/THA/547  
 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
• The Hazardous Substances Act B.E. 2535 (1992)  
• Notification of the Ministry of Public Health regarding the notification of the fact 
relating to type 1 hazardous substances under the responsibility of the Food and 
Drug Administration B.E. 2549 (2006)  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  Approximately August 2019  
Proposed date of entry into force:  Approximately August 2019  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  
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  
Tel: (66 2) 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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