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Draft Thai Agricultural Standard entitled "Good Agricultural Practices for Pig Farms": his standard provides requirements of good agricultural practices for pig farms. It covers requirements on farm components, farm management, personnel, animal health, animal welfare, environment and record keeping with aims to ensure that pigs produced by farms are suitable for further rearing or consuming as food. The food safety, animal health, animal welfare and environmental concerns are taken into consideration.

This standard is applied to farms where pigs with the scientific name of Sus scrofa, both domesticated and wild sub-species, are raised.

Notification of Ministry of Commerce regarding the Import Prohibition of E- waste into the Kingdom of Thailand.

The Ministry of Commerce has announced the notification Ministry of Commerce which the import of E- waste into Thailand is prohibited. This notification covers electronic and electrical equipment assemblies including a scarp containing accumulators and other batteries mercury-switches, glass from cathode-ray tubes and other activated glasses and, PCB-capacitors, not contaminated with Cadmium, Mercury, Lead Polychlorinated Biphenylas listed in the notification of Ministry of Industry on list of hazardous substances B.E. 2556 (2014): List 5.2 Chemical waste .

Notification of the Food and Drug Administration RE: criteria, procedures and conditions for the notification, requesting permission, and issuance of the transit license relating to hazardous substances under the responsibility of the Food and Drug Administration.

(1) Chapter 1 General Provisions:
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- Setting the qualifications of hazardous substances' transporter
- Setting the criteria, procedures and conditions of the transit guarantee

(2) Chapter 2: Setting the criteria, procedures and conditions for approval for transit license

(3) Chapter 3: Setting the criteria, procedures and conditions for changing context and detail on the transit license

Draft Thai Agricultural Standard entitled "Good Animal Practices for Elephant Facility.

This standard provides requirements of good animal practices for elephant facilities/camps where a place used for raising or gathering elephants for business purposes. It covers components of elephant camps and management of the facilities/camps, personnel, elephant health and welfare, environment , safety and record keeping. The aims are to promote elephants' good health taking into consideration animal welfare and environment while maintaining personnel's health, safety and welfare, and ensuring visitors' safety.

Determination of Used Motor Vehicles as Import Prohibited Goods or Subject to Licensing Requirements on Regulation of Import into the Kingdom of Thailand B.E. 2562 (2019) (dated 12 Jun 2019)

1.1.1 Goods subject to Automatic Import Licensing - Various goods
Department of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Commerce: (...) - has the authority to publish notifications in the Government Gazette to ban, to require for the permission, to prescribe any categories (...) of any import and export goods, in any cases where it is necessary (...).

1.1.2 Goods under Non-Automatic Import Licensing - Various goods Department of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Commerce: (...) - has the authority to publish notifications in the Government Gazette to ban, to require for the permission, to prescribe any categories (...) of any import and export goods, in any cases where it is necessary (...).

1.1.4 Import Prohibited Goods - Various goods
Department of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Commerce: (...) - has the authority to publish notifications in the Government Gazette to ban, to require for the permission, to prescribe any categories (...) of any import and export goods, in any cases where it is necessary (...).

In order to protect human health and environment, Thai government by the Ministry of Industry going to prohibit the use of chlorpyrifos and paraquat that will take effect on 1 June 2020, which has been circulated in G/TBT/N/THA/567 . Therefore, the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) proposes to revise Annex 1, List of hazardous substance type 4 (banned pesticide), and Annex 2, Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs), of Notification of the Ministry of Public Health, No. 387 (B.E. 2560) (2017) Re: Food Containing Pesticide Residues, issued on 18 August 2017.
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To comply with the notification of Ministry of Industry Re: list of hazardous substance type 4 under the Hazardous Substance Act B.E. 2535 (1992) which going to prohibit of the importation, distribution, sale and purchase based on scientific information that these products can be harmful to humans (especially the farmer that cause adverse effect as a result of direct exposure) and the environment include contamination of water resources and soil that may lead to disruption of ecosystem functions. Moreover, according to the Notification of MOPH, No. 387, the requested MRLs for all hazardous substance type 4 are set at the lower the limit of determination (LOD) .

The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation - Ministerial Regulation concerning Applying for a Permit or Certificate and Issuing a Permit or Certificate for Importation, Exportation and Transitory Movement of Wild Animals, Carcasses Thereof and Products Made of Wild Animal’s Carcasses, (2015); Wildlife Conservation and Protection Act (1992); Ministerial Regulation on prescribing Rates of License or Certificate Fees; on Specifying Certain Kinds of Wild Animals as Protected Wild Animals; on Prescribing the Kinds of Protected Wild Animals as Breedable Wild Animals.