Thailand has formulated new laws to encourage involvement in the BCG economy, such as unlocking legal and regulatory restrictions to promote investment, including the amendment of existing laws that obstruct business operations, and new legislation to encourage social change. It is the creation of a system of management mechanisms that facilitate BCG, develop an innovation ecosystem for sandbox testing, and promote product life-cycle assessment.

The unlocking of existing laws includes the following:

 - Allowing the production of high-value biochemical products for industrial use;.

 - Enabling towns and cities to develop bio-industries, such as biorefineries and recycling businesses;

 - Allowing remainders to be transported as raw materials in the factory; 

 - Allowing businesses to produce and register food and animal feed;

 - Improving the definition of "Native plant varieties" in the Plant Varieties Protection Act in order to facilitate plant breeding;

 - Enabling purchases of biomass electricity to facilitate the sale of electricity from small biomass power plants;

 - Strictly enforcing the laws prohibiting the dumping of garbage and industrial waste into the environment;

 - Strictly enforcing the laws prohibiting the dumping of garbage into water sources.

Acceleration of new legislation includes the following:

 - Promoting the use and emission control of GM factories;

 - Promoting the utilization of research results and innovations; 

 - Providing cell therapy supervision that contributes to research and development, and to apply treatment methods to serve patients properly. 

Establishment of BCG standards and quality assurance includes the following: 

 - Labeling of products in the bioeconomy and circular economy, especially products developed from research;

 - Establishing recycling standards and designing products that are conducive to recycling;

 - Creating high-value packaging standards using recycled plastic for beverage and food packaging;

 - Devising a traceability system to prevent the import of raw materials from abroad;

 - Determining the quality of biofuel B100 to meet international standards;

 - Improving product label information, to clarify recycling methods by material type.

Source : National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA)
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