. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/THA/119
9 September 2003
(03-4705)
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 Energy Busine ss (DOEB), Ministry of Energy
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,
e-mail: thaistan@tisi.go.th, stdinfo@tisi .go.th, web site addr ess: www.tis i.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):   D i e s e l  o i l
(HS Chapter 27 10. 003, ICS:  75.160.01 Fuels in general)
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Notification of the
Department of Energy Business on Characteri stic and Quality of Diesel Oil B.E. 2546
(2003) (3 pages, available in Thai language)
6. Description of content:   This notification replaces the notification of the Department of
Commercial Registration on Characteristic and Quality of Diesel Oil B.E. 2545(2002)
dated 13 September B.E. 2545(2002) which is withdrawn.  This notification classifies diesel
oil into two types, i.e. high-speed en gines and low-speed engines, and specifies
characteristics and quality of diesel oil (e.g. specific gravity, cetane number or calculated
cetane index, viscosity, pour point, sulphur content, corrosion, carbon residue, water and
sediment, ash content, flash point, distillation, colour, lubricity by HFRR and additives (ifany).  In cases where the characteristics or quality of some diesel oil are different from those
specified, the diesel oil traders must notify the differences to and get approval from the
Director General of the Department of Energy Business.
This notification does not affect the approval  issued prior to the enforcement of this
notification.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Consumer protection
8. Relevant documents:   Publication in which notification is published when adopted:
- Government Gazette, Vol. 120, Special Part ngor., dated 19 August 2003G/TBT/N/THA/119
Page 2
9. Proposed date of adoption:  7 August 2003
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 January 2004
10. Final date for comments:   60 days from the 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:           