G/TBT/N/THA/695  
10 February 2023  
(23-0977) 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:   
National Bureau of Agricultural Commodity and Food Standards, Ministry of Agriculture 
and Cooperatives  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding t he notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
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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):  Fresh  
durian  (Durio spp.) (HS Code 0810.60) (ICS Code: 67.080.10)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft T hai 
Agricultural Standard entitled "Code of Practice on Inspection and Receiving of Durians 
for Collecting house and Packing house"; (11 page(s), in English), (12 page(s), in Thai)  
6. Description of content:  This Thai Agricultural Standard  establishes cod e of practice on 
inspection and receiving of durians for a collecting house and a packing house. It covers 
requirements on inspection and receiving of durians for collecting house and packing 
house prior to further management process (e.g., preparing, sort ing, packing, storage 
and transportation) in order to obtain the whole fruits that are mature according to the 
standard's requirements for the purposes of distribution, export and import.  
This Thai Agricultural Standard does not apply to the inspection and  receiving of durians 
supplied for the preparation of ready -to-eat fresh pre -cut durians and for the production 
of quick -frozen durians.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Quality requirement; the accelerating harvest of durians for fresh 
consumption prior to reaching their required maturity is a problem. As a result, immature 
durians occasionally enter into the market, affecting consumers' confidence and overall 
trade disruption. Thus, it is necess ary to have a code of practice for durian collecting 
houses and packing houses to help support the trade of mature durians, according to 
their quality standards, and to build confidence of consumers and trading partners. ; 
Quality requirements  
8. Relevant  documents:   G/TBT/N/THA/695  
 
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  The Agricultural Standards Act B.E. 2551 (2008)  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  90 days after published in Royal Gazette  
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:   
National Bureau of Agricultural Commodity and Food Standards  
Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives  
50 Paholy othin Rd., Ladyao, Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900  
Tel: +(662) 561 4024  
Fax: +(662) 561 4034, +(662) 561 4088  
E-mail: codex@acfs.go.th  
spsthailand@gmail.com  
Website: http://www.acfs.go.th  
http://www.spsthailand.net  
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