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The Pollution Control Department (PCD), the Department of Industrial Works (DIW), the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT) and JICA are implementing the 4-year Japanese technical cooperation project for "the Development of Basic Schemes for Pollutant Release and Transfer Register System (PRTR) in the Kingdom of Thailand". Currently, the Project finished its' first year activity and is at the stage of drafting selection criteria for target substances and list of target substance to be reported under the PRTR system. We are preparing the pilot project to be implemented in Rayong province in the third year, and the above mentioned target substances would be the subject of reporting for this pilot project. We thus would like to seek for your comments/suggestions on the draft selection criteria and list of substances by April 30, 2012.

Please follow the link below to learn more about selection criteria / PRTR, and give us your comment/ suggestion by filling in the Survey form (Word Document in the below link):
Pollution Control Department(in Thai)

In the above-mentioned link, the following four (4) major documents are available for download:

1. Survey Form on "the Selection Criteria for Target Substance and Draft Target Substance under PRTR System" (in English and Thai);
2. Presentation Material on "Proposed List of Target Substances for PRTR in Thailand" (in English);
3. Summary of "Selection Criteria for Target Substances" and "List of Target Substances" (in English); and
4. PCD Publication "Introduction of PRTR System" (in Thai only)

Please send your comments and the survey form to Hazardous Substance Division, Waste and Hazardous Substance Management Bureau, Pollution Control Department:

• Address: 92 Soi Phahonyothin7, Phahonyothin Road, PhayaThai, Bangkok, 10400
• Tel/Fax: 0 2298 2442