Laos Reach Regulation for Various Sectors

National Regulation  

Implementation officer(s)  

MOIC and DOIH 

Law  

• The Law on Chemical Management No. 07/NA 2016 

Translation:http://www.laoofficialgazette.gov.la/kcfinder/upload/files/1204%E0%BA%AD%E0%BA%842020.pdf 

• Decision on the Registration of chemical agents, importation, exportation, and transit No. 1204/ MOIC.DIH2020 

Translation: https://www.laotradeportal.gov.la/index.php?r=site/display&id=2168 

• Decision on the List of Industrial Chemicals classified as Type I, II, III, and IV  

First version: 

https://law.moic.gov.la/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Decision-No.0389-On-the-List-of-Industrial-Chemicals.pdf 

Updated version: http://laoofficialgazette.gov.la/kcfinder/upload/files/0220%E0%BA%AD%E0%BA%842021.pdf 

Objectives  

Ensure the business operation and use of chemicals efficient, effective, and safe to the health, life, property, environment and society which also contribute to the national economic and social sustainable development.  

Scope 

Industrial (Non) hazardous chemicals 

Exemption 

Activities relating to radioactive substances and atomic energy 

Research, technology development, protection and prevention of danger, use in the national defense and public security activities 

Target  

1. Domestic and foreign individual, legal entity or organization undertaking chemical activities in Lao PDR 

2. Import, export and transit of chemicals in/to Lao PDR 

Compliance obligations 

• Pre-registration 
• Registration or notification according to the classification of chemicals (type 1-5) 

Comments 

1. Chemical import request form 

https://www.laotradeportal.gov.la/index.php?r=SearchForms/view&id=88 

https://www.laotradeportal.gov.la/index.php?r=SearchForms/view&id=89 

Ministry of Agriculture and Forests 

Law on Agriculture, 1998  

e.g. regulate the use and management of chemical fertilizers, insecticide, animal medicines 

Regulation on the Control of Pesticides in Lao PDR, 2010 

Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment 

Environmental protection law 1999, 2012 

e.g. environmental protection against pollution and toxic chemicals control and waste disposal 

The law on water resource 1996, 2013, 2017  

e.g. determine protected water (no chemical substances in it) prevent water waste (with chemical mixed in it) 

Ministry of Public Works and Transport 

Land transport law, 1997, 2012 

e.g.  transport of dangerous materials such as chemical substances 

Ministry of Public Health     

Law on food, 2004, 2013 

e.g. regulate the production, processing, and storage of food without toxic chemical substances and chemical traces  

Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts 

The law on the processing industry, 1999 

e.g. regulate the operation of chemical processing production factories