The Consumer Protection Act B.E. 2522 (1979) grants the Contract Committee of the Consumer Protection Board the power to designate “contract-controlled businesses,” in order to control the contents of written contracts between certain businesses and their consumers in the course of sales or services. Designation as a contract-controlled business is intended to ensure that contracts contain necessary terms and conditions and to prevent consumers from being unreasonably disadvantaged by unfair contract terms.

The Indonesia National Agency of Drug and Food Control (NADFC) has issued the nation’s first official guidelines for food recall in the Head of NADFC Regulation No. 22 of 2017, which entered into force on November 28, 2017. The regulation establishes food recall procedures for manufacturers, importers, and distributors who are obligated to recall food products that are not in accordance with requirements set forth in prevailing laws and regulations.

After much anticipation, the latest Myanmar Trademark Bill (the “Bill”) was published in the third quarter of 2017, alongside the Patents Bill, Copyright Bill, and the Industrial Designs Bill. The publication of the four bills marked the first development in the intellectual property sphere initiated by the National League of Democracy government since it entered into office in April 2016. In January 2018, the Union Minister for Education, Dr. Myo Thein Gyi, submitted the Bill to the Parliament for the Upper House’s consideration. 

The Department of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture, recently proposed a Draft Bill on the Plant Variety Protection (No. 2) (Draft PVP Bill) and released it for public hearing. The Draft PVP Bill aims to amend the Plant Variety Protection Act B.E. 2542 (1999) (PVP Act) so that Thai law is in compliance with the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, which came into force on March 19, 1991 (UPOV 1991). The current PVP Act was drafted based on UPOV 1978.The major amendments to the Draft PVP Bill can be summarized are as follows:

In 2007, Cambodia enacted the Law on the Issuance and Trading of Non-Governmental Securities (“2007 Securities Law”), which paved the way for corporations to issue both debt and equity securities to the public and contributed to steady progress in the Cambodian equity market, with the country’s first initial public offering in 2012 and a total of three state-owned enterprises and two corporations currently listed on the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX), the sole securities market operator in Cambodia.

Insurance and Reinsurance, published by Practical Law Company, provides a Q&A-style overview of insurance and reinsurance law in 38 jurisdictions worldwide.

The Practical Law Insurance and Reinsurance Global Guide 2018 presents a Q&A-style overview of insurance and reinsurance laws and practices in major jurisdictions around the world. The Thailand chapter of the guide was written by members of Tilleke & Gibbins’ regional insurance practice, including Aaron Le Marquer, Athistha Chitranukroh, and Kitti Thaisomboon. The chapter provides details on the following subjects:

Members of Tilleke & Gibbins’ regional insurance practice, including Dino Santaniello, head of the firm’s office in Laos, and Saithong Rattana, attorney-at-law, have contributed to the debut Laos chapter in Insurance and Reinsurance, published by Practical Law Company.