WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/THA/332 
21 January 2010  
 (10-0306) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  THAILAND
  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:   
Department of Disease Control 
Ministry of Public Health Tiwanon Road, Nonthaburi 11000, Thailand Telephone: (+662)  590 3032,  (+662)  590 3035 
Fax: (+662)  590 3110 
E-mail: smarnf21@gmail.com, poo_515@hotmail.com 
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 :    
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):  Alcohol Beverages 
(ICS:  67.160.10) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Notification of 
the Alcohol Beverages Control, Re: Criteria , Procedures and Requir ements for Alcohol 
Beverage Packages or Pictorial Labels/Warning Statements on the Local Manufactured or 
Imported Alcohol Beverages, issued under…..B E…. (available in Thai, 3 pages)     
6. Description of content:  According to the Draft Notification of  the Alcohol Beverages 
Control, Re: Criteria, Procedures and Requi rements for Alcohol Be verage Packages or 
Pictorial Labels/ Warning Statements on th e Local Manufactured or Imported Alcohol 
Beverages, issued under…..BE… ., it is specified as follows:  
1. Definition of “Package” and the capacity of alcohol beverage contained in different types 
of containers. 
2. Either of the local manufa ctured or the imported alcohol beverages, the labels on their 
packages shall not contain any word or statement that is likely to mislead the consumers to believe that the alcohol can improve  better health or have the lo wer toxic level than others, or 
in a manner of advertisin g the alcoholic beverage directly or  indirectly. The labels shall be 
eligible, printed as prescribed and contain the following statement:  
“Sale of alcohol beverages to persons under 20 ye ars old is prohibited, Penalties for Violation: 
one-year imprisonment or 20,000 baht fine” G/TBT/N/THA/332 
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  3.  Pictorial labels shall be provided with the warning statements on the harm of alcohol 
wherein the picture shall be printed in 4 colors and 6 types of which one of them is required to 
be rotated at 1,000 package intervals. The fo llowing 6 types of pictorial labels/ warning 
statements shall be labelled in accordance with  the templates as appeared in the annex :  
Type 1.  “Drinking alcohol causes the hypertension liver cirrhosis”; 
Type 2. “Alcohol intoxicati on leads to the accidents; 
Type 3. “Drinking alcohol leads to  unconsciousness and even death”; 
Type 4. “Drinking alcohol leads to  inferior sexual performance”; 
Type 5. “Drinking alcohol leads to adve rse health effect and family problems”; 
Type 6.“Drinking alcohol is a bad in fluence on children and  young people”. 
4.  The publication of pictorial labels/ warn ing statements under Clau se 3 is specified as 
follows:  
(1) If the package is in rectangular shape, the space shall not be less than 50 percents of the 
space of each side with the maximum space or the front and the back side of the package, or not less than 30 percents of the total area of the packages if the package is in round or cylinder 
shape .  
 (2)  If the package is of the other shape than as specified above, the  warning statements shall 
cover the space no less than 30 percents of the total surface area of th e package. To conform 
with the label requirements, th e manufacturers or importers of alcohol beverages shall only 
provide the labels as well as adjust the size  of statements from the template stipulated by 
Office of the Alcohol Control Commit tee, Ministry of Public Health.  
5. This draft notification shall not apply to the alcohol beverages manufactured or imported 
for distribution out of the Kingdom of Thailand, or for the specific purposes as samples for 
testing, analysis, or research; or for non-commercial benefits in the Kingdom. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  By 
virtue of Section 26(1) of the Alcohol C ontrol Act B.E. 2551 (A.D. 2008) Re: the alcohol 
manufactures or importers shall provide packag ing materials, labels and warning messages 
for manufactured or imported alc ohol beverages to meet the rule s, procedures, and conditions 
as prescribed by the Control Committee with  the approval of the Committee as published in 
the Government Gazette.  
8. Relevant documents:   the Alcohol Beverage Control Act B.E. 2551 (2008).   
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    To be determined. 
One hundred and eighty days following the date of its publication in th e Government Gazette. 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days after being notified to WTO Members.  G/TBT/N/THA/332 
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  11. Text available from: National enquiry po int [ X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addres ses, if available of the other body:    
National Bureau of Agricultural Co mmodity and Food Standards (ACFS) 
Division of Agricultural Commodity and Food Standards Policy 50 Phaholyothin Road, Ladyao, Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900 
Thailand 
Tel:  (+662) 561 4204 Fax:  (+662) 561 4034 Website:  www.acfs.go.th  Email:  sps@acfs.go.th 
And can also be downloaded here: 
http://members.wto.org/crna ttachments/2010/tbt/tha/10_0258_00_x.pdf