. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/THA/27
22 May 2001
(01-2585)
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:   Thai Industrial Standards Institute (TISI), Ministry of Industry
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:           
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):   Pressure regulators HS
Chapter 7311, ICS : 23.060.40
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   TIS 915-2543(2000)
Liquefied Petroleum Gas Cylinder Valves ( 11 pages, available in English language)
6. Description of content:   Thai Industrial Standards Institute (TISI) has proposed to enforce
TIS 915-2543(2000) as mandatory standard.  The standard covers LPG cylinder valves for
use with LPG cylinders sizes 0.5 to 200 kg or capacity from 1 to 500 dm3.  Classifies by
opening and closing manner into 2 types, i.e. manually operated and clip-on types.Specifies components, material and construction (e.g. body, valve, relief spring, rubber seal,
inlet thread), manufacture of manually operated valve (e.g. outlet, gland nut, o-ring),
lubricants.  Prescribes requirements for appearance, opening and closing manner (for
manually operated type only), functioning of safety relief device, leakage, hydraulic
pressure resistance, vibration resistance, resistance to opening and closing, strength (for
manually type only), resistance to mercury (I) nitrate.  Includes marking, labelling,
sampling and criteria for conformity, testing
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Safety
8. Relevant documents:
(1) Reference documents:
- JIS B 8245-1977 Valves for Liquefied Petroleum Gas Cylinder
- UL 125-1987 Valves for Anhydrous Ammonia and LP-GAS(Other
Than Safety Relief)
- Government Gazette, Vol.106, Part 226, dated 22 December 1989
- The Notification of the Ministry of Industry No. 1806, B.E.2535(1992)- The Notification of the Ministry of Industry No.2703, B.E.2543(2000)G/TBT/N/THA/27
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(2) Publication in which the notification is published when adopted:
- Government Gazette
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force:2 April 2001
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:           