. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/THA/24
5 April 2001
(01-1734)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   THAILAND
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Department of Land Transport, Ministry of Transport and
Communications
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   Thai Industrial
Standards Institute (TISI), Tel:  +66 2 2023512  Fax:  +66 2 2478734,
Email: thaistan@tisi.go.th,  stdingo@tisi. go.th, website address:  www.tisi.go.th
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):   Glass in general
(HS Chapter 70.07), (ICS:  81.040.01)
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Draft Ministerial
Regulation No… (B.E..) Issued Under the Provision of the Motor Vehicle Act B.E.2522
(1979) (1 page, in English)
6. Description of content:   This ministerial regulation prescribes as follows:
1. Safety glass used for windscreen and other components of vehicles body shall be:
1) Approved by Thai Industrial Standards Institute (TISI);  or
2) Complied with regulations of UN/ECE on safety glazing and glazing
materials.
2. Motor vehicle manufactured or assembled in Thailand from 1 July B.E.2545(2002)
shall be enforced to use laminated safety glass for windscreens.
3. Imported motor vehicle if its windscreen and other glass components of vehicles
body do not comply with Article 1 and its windscreen is not made of laminatedsafety glass shall be subject to the approval from the Department of Land Transport.
4. Safety glass installed in the motor vehicle registered prior to the effective date of
this regulation shall be used until the end of it condition.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
SafetyG/TBT/N/THA/24
Page 2
8. Relevant documents:   Publication in which the Notification is published when adopted:
- Government Gazette
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }To be determined
10. Final date for comments:   60 days from the WTO circulation date
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X] or address, telephone and fax
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:
Department of Land Transport
1032 Phahonyothin Road
Bangkok 10900, Thailand
Email: foreign.sub@dlt.moct.go.th
Fax: +66 2 617-6683