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THAI COUNTRY REPORT By SUKON AIMANANT POLLUTION CONTROL DEPARTMENT

THAI COUNTRY REPORT By SUKON AIMANANT POLLUTION CONTROL DEPARTMENT. Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. Advisor to the Ministry. Advisory Committee. Internal Auditor. Office of the Secretary to the Minister. Directing. Environment Affairs. Natural Resource Affairs.

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THAI COUNTRY REPORT By SUKON AIMANANT POLLUTION CONTROL DEPARTMENT

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  1. THAI COUNTRY REPORTBy SUKON AIMANANTPOLLUTION CONTROL DEPARTMENT

  2. Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Advisor to the Ministry Advisory Committee Internal Auditor Office of the Secretary to the Minister Directing EnvironmentAffairs Natural Resource Affairs Inland water Affairs Office of the Permanent Secretary Department of Water Resources Pollution Control Department National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department Office of the Natural Resources and Environment Policy and Planning Department of Groundwater Resources Department of Environment Quality Promotion Department of Mineral Resources Department of Marine and Coastal Resources

  3. The Functions of Pollution Control Department • To support the formulation of national policy and plans of environmental quality conservation and promotion in respect to pollution control, • To formulate and recommend environmental quality and emission/effluent standards, • To formulate environmental quality management plans which include measures to control, prevent and remedy environmental problems caused by pollution, • To monitor the national environmental quality and prepare an annual report on the state of the pollution,

  4. The Functions of Pollution Control Department (2) * To develop systems, methodologies and technologies, which are appropriate in application to the better management of water quality, air quality, noise pollution, hazardous substances and solid waste, * To take actions on public complaints related to pollution, * To perform other functions as may be designated by other laws.

  5. Environmental Quality and Laboratory Division Functions: 1. Support research and development in the areas of pollution management 2. Development systems, models and procedures to evaluate and verify pollution control technologies 3. Provide advice and suggestions about environmental engineering 4. Support and create mechanisms, which convert technology concepts into pratical applications 5. Support the potential for competitiveness of Thai pollution control technologies and products 6. Analyze environmental samples of Pollution control Department

  6. Waste and Hazardous Substance Management Bureau • Functions: • To recommend and prepare policy and plans for hazardous substance and solid waste control • To monitor environmental quality involving hazardous waste, poisonous substances and solid waste • Organization: • Hazardous Waste Division • Hazardous Substance Division • Waste Minimization Division • Solid Waste Management Division • Emergency Response and Remediation Division • Planning and Evaluation Division

  7. Persistent Organic Pollutants in Thailand • DDT was first introduced in Thailand as malaria control • in 1949. • Dieldrin, Aldrin, Endrin, Chlodane, Heptachor, and • Toxaphene had been widely used for pest control since • 1959. • Mirex and Hexachlorobenzene have never imported. • PCB had been used in a large quantity as a dielectric fluid • for electric capacitors and transformers.

  8. Banned POPs Chemicals

  9. Relevant Government Agencies

  10. POPs monitoring and management in Thailand • The 7 POPs pesticides, namely Dieldrin, Aldrin, Endrin, Chlodane, Heptachor, and Toxaphene, have been banned for many years. • According to the monitoring of these pesticides in soils and water, most samples were reported at a very few part per million (ppm). • Mirex and Hexachlorobenzene have never imported. • The importation of electric capacitors and trasformers containing PCBs was totally banned in 1975. • Exiting stocks of PCBs within capacitors and trasformers are still in use, and the waste PCBs and contaminated equipment are kept in storage and then exported oversea for incineration. • The monitoring for PCBs and PCDD/PCDF has never been done in routine, just in case by case.

  11. Stockhoml Convention on POPs • Thailand has signed the Stockhoml Convention on May 22, 2002 but • has yet ratified. • Pollution Contol Department has designated as a national focal • point of Thailand. • Thailand has been developing the nation action plans for • implementation the Convention.

  12. National Action Plan

  13. Dioxin Sampling and analysis program in Thailand

  14. THANK YOU

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