TISI CANCELS BATCH CERTIFICATION,
TISI,

▍What is TISI Certification?

TISI is short for Thai Industrial Standards Institute, affiliating to Thailand Industry Department. TISI is responsible for formulating the domestic standards as well as participating in international standards formulation and supervising the products and qualified assessment procedure to ensure the standard compliance and recognition. TISI is a governmental authorized regulatory organization for compulsory certification in Thailand. It is also responsible for formation and management of standards, lab approval, personnel training and product registration. It is noted that there is no non-governmental compulsory certification body in Thailand.

There is voluntary and compulsory certification in Thailand. TISI logos (see Figures 1 and 2) are allowed to use when products meet the standards. For products that have not yet been standardized, TISI also implements product registration as a temporary means of certification.

▍Compulsory Certification Scope

The compulsory certification covers 107 categories, 10 fields, including: electrical equipment, accessories, medical equipment, construction materials, consumer goods, vehicles, PVC pipes, LPG gas containers and agricultural products. Products beyond this scope are fall within the voluntary certification scope. Battery is compulsory certification product in TISI certification.

Applied standard: TIS 2217-2548 (2005)

Applied batteries：Secondary cells and batteries(containing alkaline or other non-acid electrolytes – safety requirements for portable sealed secondary cells, and for batteries made from them, for use in portable applications)

License issuance authority:  Thai Industrial Standards Institute

▍Why MCM?

● MCM cooperates with factory audit organizations, laboratory and TISI directly, capable to provide best certification solution for clients.

● MCM possesses 10 years abundant experience in battery industry, capable to provide professional technical support.

● MCM provides one-stop bundle service to help clients enter into multiple markets (not only Thailand included) successfully with simple procedure.

For the reason of COVID-19, on April 20, 2020 TISI has released a gazette that batteries, cells, power banks, outlets, plugs, lighting products, optic fiber cables and similar products can be imported to Thailand through the application of batch certification.
On Oct 15, 2021 a new gazette was announced by TISI that the batch certificates which were opened up due to pandemic will be canceled 60 days after from the date of announcement (that is Dec 14, 2021), which has made the TISI licensing procedure return to that procedure before pandemic. Products with standard having specified batch certification would not be affected; while those have been given special approval for batch certification during pandemic period shall be terminated for application. Battery products fall to the cancellation scope.
So far TISI has terminated accepting batch application of relevant products.
It is suggested that clients complete importing products with batch certificate at the soonest and accomplish the application of normal certification before the deadline. MCM can bring up an experience of 2–3 months certification lead time to clients.