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Thailand Seeks Feedback On Royal Decree On Digital Platforms.

On August 9, 2024, Thailand’s Electronic Transactions Development Agency (ETDA) opened a period for public feedback regarding the 2022 Royal Decree on Digital Platforms and its subregulations. 

To collect this feedback, the ETDA has prepared a 44-question survey on specific attributes of the royal decree and its requirements, covering issues such as the definition of digital platform services (DPSs), types of services that are subject to notification requirements, information that must be submitted annually, and the royal decree’s extraterritorial scope. 

Business operators that fall within the scope of the royal decree and wish to provide feedback on its effectiveness should prepare and submit the survey online to the ETDA by the end of August 2024. 

Royal Decree on Digital Platforms 

Thailand’s Royal Decree on Digital Platforms was published in the Government Gazette on December 22, 2022. It defines a DPS as any service that facilitates or mediates transactions between users through a digital platform, such as e-commerce, food delivery, ride-hailing, online travel agency, online payment provider, or social media platform. The decree requires DPS operators to notify the ETDA before commencing operations, with some limited exemptions. 

The decree also empowers the ETDA to issue notifications (i.e., subregulations) and guidelines for implementing the decree and to monitor and enforce compliance by DPS operators. The ETDA may impose administrative sanctions, such as warnings, fines, service suspension, or revocation of notification, for any violation of the royal decree or the ETDA’s subregulations. 

In-scope DPS operators should take this opportunity to provide comments to the ETDA in order to voice their opinions on the practicality of the requirements and support the regulator in shaping the requirements of the royal decree and its subregulations. 

For more information on this initiative from the ETDA, or on any aspect related to the Royal Decree on Digital Platforms, please contact Athistha (Nop) Chitranukroh at nop.c@tilleke.com, Thammapas Chanpanich at thammapas.c@tilleke.com, Pornpan Wichawut at pornpan.w@tilleke.com, Rada Lamsam at rada.l@tilleke.com, or Karnravee Jitvilai at karnravee.j@tilleke.com. 

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Tilleke & Gibbins
For further information, please contact:

Athistha (Nop) Chitranukroh – Tilleke & Gibbins, Tilleke & Gibbins
nop.c@tilleke.com

Athistha (Nop) Chitranukroh – Tilleke & Gibbins

Nop Chitranukroh, a partner at Tilleke & Gibbins, leading technology and insurance teams, with expertise in regulatory compliance and recognized as a top practitioner in insurance and TMT law.

Nop Chitranukroh is a partner and director of Tilleke & Gibbins’ corporate and commercial group. She leads the firm’s technology and insurance teams, and regularly advises clients across industries on a wide range of regulatory compliance matters relating to cybersecurity and data privacy, fintech, insurance, insurtech, and payments. She also represents multinational and local financial services, payments, and technology industry clients on a range of strategic matters, including market entry, M&As, and ongoing compliance across Southeast Asia.

Prior to joining Tilleke & Gibbins, Nop served as Thailand general counsel of an American multinational corporation, listed on the New York Stock Exchange, where she oversaw all operations within the legal department in Thailand. Nop was previously Asia-Pacific regional counsel for the same multinational finance and insurance corporation, based in Singapore. She has also served as a legal counsel at an industry-leading Irish-American financial services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of payment processing software and related application programming interfaces (APIs) for e-commerce websites and mobile applications.

Widely recognized as a top practitioner in insurance and TMT legal practice in Southeast Asia, Nop is ranked as a leading lawyer in both technology and insurance industries in Thailand by Chambers Asia-Pacific, and has been identified as a Next Generation Partner in TMT by The Legal 500. She was named one of the Asia’s top 40 lawyers under 40 by Thomson Reuters’ Asian Legal Business, and in 2020, she was nominated for Data Privacy Lawyer of the Year (Asia) at the Asian Legal Awards.

Nop is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Asia (CIPP/A) with the International Association of Privacy Professionals and serves as an advisory board member of Insurtech Asia. She has acted as a legal advisor for the Thailand Insurance Association for more than a decade.

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