Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/400/REV.1 |
S-Table-4.6 |
Thailand |
2020 |
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Fisheries |
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Table 4.6 Strategies for fisheries management
Strategy; Components
Improve competitiveness; Ensure fish production meets organic standards
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Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/400/REV.1 |
S-Table-4.6 |
Thailand |
2020 |
Sectors |
Non-monetary support |
Fisheries |
Relevant information
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Table 4.6 Strategies for fisheries management
Strategy; Components
Manage aquatic resources to ensure sustainability and biodiversity; Rehabilitate and conserve fisheries resources, Promote community-based aquatic resource management, Monitor and survey fisheries activities to combat IUU fishing, Enhance efficiency of aquatic resource management through research and development and innovations
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Bio
Conservation
Fish
Sustainable
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Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/400/REV.1 |
S-4§51 |
Thailand |
2020 |
Sectors |
Grants and direct payments, Loans and financing |
Fisheries |
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4.51. (...) Thailand notified to the WTO, under Article XVI:1 of the GATT 1994 and Article 25 of the WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, a number of support measures to the fisheries sector, in the form of soft loans or grants (Table 3019). These include mainly programmes to help fishermen and fishing vessel owners affected by the Government's measures to combat IUU fishing.
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Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/400/REV.1 |
S-4§52 |
Thailand |
2020 |
Sectors |
Grants and direct payments |
Fisheries |
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4.52. Other notified programmes [to the WTO] which were, or are being, implemented include: the livelihood-improvement and resilience-building programme for artisanal fisheries communities: from April to September 2019, the DOF provided grants to 65 artisanal fishing communities in the three southern coastal provinces, to help them manage, maintain, conserve, restore and sustain the utilization of fisheries resources, and to improve their livelihoods and quality of life; the microorganisms production centre programme: the DOF sought to promote the use of microorganisms (liquid and powder) for shrimp farmers, with a view to alleviating damage and loss from environmental degradation and disease problems (...)
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Conservation
Environment
Fish
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Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/400/REV.1 |
S-4§56 |
Thailand |
2020 |
Sectors |
General environmental reference |
Energy |
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4.56. Other relevant institutions include: the Energy Conservation Promotion Fund (ENCON Fund) Committee, chaired by a deputy prime minister assigned by the Prime Minister, aimed at promoting energy conservation.
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Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/400/REV.1 |
S-4§57 |
Thailand |
2020 |
Sectors |
General environmental reference |
Energy |
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4.57. The main laws regulating the energy sector include: (...) the Energy Conservation and Promotion Act (1992, amended in 2007) (...)
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WT/TPR/S/400/REV.1 |
S-4§59 |
Thailand |
2020 |
Sectors |
Other measures |
Energy |
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4.59. (...) the National Energy Reform Plan 2018 (...) issued in January 2018, intends to reform Thailand's energy production and consumption structures by promoting renewable energy and good governance in the energy sector. It complements the Alternative Energy Development Plan (AEDP 2015), and the Energy Efficiency Development Plan (EEDP 2011-30). [26]
[26] The AEDP (2015-36) aims to promote the use of renewable energy for power generation by 2036. The EEDP (2015-36) has a target of reducing energy intensity (i.e. the ratio of energy consumption to GDP) by 30% by 2036, compared to 2010, through energy-saving and efficiency programmes.
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WT/TPR/S/400/REV.1 |
S-4§60 |
Thailand |
2020 |
Sectors |
Other support measures |
Energy |
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4.60. The PDP 2018-37 was endorsed by both the NEPC and the CEPA in 2018. It focuses on: ensuring reliable power-generation capacity, via strengthening the provision of conventional power plants , securing purchasing from abroad, and increasing renewable power plants and energy conservation; (...) setting up public policy-promoted power plants based on renewable energies from community waste and biomass, building renewable power plants under the AEDP, and promoting power conservation under the EEDP.
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Bio
Conservation
Energy
Renewable
Waste
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Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/400/REV.1 |
S-4§61 |
Thailand |
2020 |
Sectors |
Tax concessions |
Energy |
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4.61. (...) In recent years, Thailand has been focusing on promoting the use of renewable energy, not only through incentives in the form of corporate income tax and import tariff exemption or reductions offered by the BOI (Section 3.3.1), but also through other incentive programmes
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Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/400/REV.1 |
S-Table-4.8 |
Thailand |
2020 |
Sectors |
Income or price support |
Energy |
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Table 4.8 Renewable energy incentives, 2019
Programme: Description
FIT for Renewable Energy (RE) programme; Very small power producers (VSPPs) of renewable energy are provided with per-kWh payments ("feed-in tariffs") above those paid to standard wholesale producers by the state-owned utilities companies (the Metropolitan Electricity Authority (MEA), the Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA), and the Electric Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT)). Rates vary according to the technology used: solar, biomass, wind, garbage, and hydro. (...)
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