“asean-law.senate.go.th” website

ASEAN Legal information database on web name

“asean-law.senate.go.th”established on April 2, 2014

collected all important legal information of ASEAN member countries

comprising of 26 classification in 3 major categories

easy to use for everyone

2 languages: Thai and English - support Thai and other user

basic and advance search

preparation legal information for entering the ASEAN Community in last year: 2015,

the entering of ASEAN Community will affect Thailand, persons, public sectors, private sector + people

Thai Senate acting as the National Legislative Assembly is also passionate to collaborate with other

organizations particularly in term of Legislative cooperation.

develop the database and keep its information up to date

support Member of Parliament in considering laws related to Thailand’s mission within

the ASEAN Community Framework.

help private and public agencies to prepare for the formation of ASEAN Community in

2015.

help facilitate access to laws in ASEAN member countries and improve Thai laws.

help map out policy and operation to support Thailand.

People can access to laws information of ASEAN member countries and their partner countries from database via website of the concerned agencies

The member of each committee come from major strangeholder, professional and parliamentary staff in the area of legal, information technology, language, academic.

Committee of ASEAN Community of the Secretariat

of the Senate

Sub-Committee of ASEAN Legal

Database Development

Committee of Legal information of ASEAN

member countries of the National Legislative

Assembly of Thailand

run by staff of Bureau of Legal and Bureau of Information Technology and communication

Support and cooperation from major agencies in ThailandMinistry of LabourThe Customs DepartmentMinistry of Information and Communication Technology Ministry of JusticeOffice of the Board of Investment of ThailandNational Electronics and Computer Technology Center The Secretariat of the CabinetOffice of Council of StateThe Secretariat of the House of RepresentativesAnd others agencies.

1) Constitutions of ASEAN 10

member states

2) ASEAN legal

instrument

3) ASEAN member states

legislation

Constitutions information page

1) Constitutions of ASEAN 10 member states

- details - can compare Consideration Points of each

2) ASEAN legal instruments – Total in database 209

ASEAN legal instruments type had classification:

Instrument type Total legal instrument in database

a) Agreements 74b) Arrangements -c) Charters 1d) Conventions 1e) Declarations 8f) Memorandums of Agreement (MOA) -g) Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) 26h) Protocol 96i) Treaty 3

ASEAN legal instruments page

2.1 By Instrument type2.2 By Participating country in ASEAN Member2.3 By Participating country in Non – ASEAN Member2.4 By Status2.5 By Subject2.6 By Title – can use text search

1. Reference URL to original of legal instruments

2. Force Date Begin legal instruments

3. Type of legal instruments

4. Description of legal instruments

5. Participation Details of legal instruments

6. Signature Date

7. Signature Place

8. Status of legal instruments

9. Status note

10. Title of legal instruments

ASEAN legal instruments details:

Example information

ASEAN legal instruments page

3) ASEAN member states legislation

Country Total legal information in

databasea) Brunei Darussalam 11a) Cambodia 260a) Indonesia 134a) Laos 74a) Malaysia 490a) Myanmar 299a) Philippine 128a) Singapore 645a) Thailand 860a) Vietnam 289

(1) ASEAN Political-Security Community

(APSC)

(2) ASEAN Economic Community (AEC)

(3) ASEAN Social-Cultural Community

(ASCC)

ASEAN member legislation main page

Web board

1. To invite representatives from non current members Ministries to attend workshop for

introduction legal information of ASEAN member countries in “asean-law.senate.go.th”

website.

2. host for co-operating, developing and update legal information and supporting to

collect legal information of Thailand and of ASEAN member countries

3. the database team always update information and linked URL as usual and monitor a

new legal information of other ASEAN member countries, but we still have the problems

about unstable of URL links that we referred.

4. Repackaging hot issue legal information for public from text to infographic for easy to

understand

5. Our database team hope to get kindly support from major agencies from ASEAN

member countries in term of Legislative cooperation.

Future plan and conclusion

asean-law.senate.go.th

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