PUBLISHED: 3 Oct 2024 at 04: 00
A bill to liberalize the wine industry was proposed by the criticism People’s Party, but the House rejected it yesterday.
By a vote of 237 to 137, the House rejected the legislation introduced by Women’s Party MP Taopiphop Limjittrakorn.
Without getting state approval, the bill would have allowed people to possess drinking distillation equipment and produce alcohol for their personal consumption.
Before the ballot, state chief whip Wisut Chainarun from the coalition-core Pheu Thai Party said the act was impossible.
” This is a great issue”, he said. The consequences will be significant if every home is permitted to produce alcohol without the approval of the law. Agreement is important”.
The House rather approved more liberal costs developed by Pheu Thai and the United Thai Nation Party, a coalition partner, with 384 and 385 seats, respectively. The investigation of the bills will then begin.
Under these expenses, anyone who wants to use alcohol extraction equipment to make drinking must first have government approval.
Mr. Taopiphop claimed that his act was a part of his party’s wider campaign to end conglomerates in various businesses.
Mr. Taopiphop, a lawyer turned art baker who was once detained for attempting to brew illegally, has been campaigning for years to make laws more welcoming to small-scale producers.
More than half of the region’s alcoholic drinks industry, valued at about 470 billion ringgit, consists of liquor.
Boon Rawd Brewery holds 58 % of the beer industry, followed by Thai Beverage Plc, which holds 33.4 percent. ThaiBev is the fugitive leader in the souls market with a 59.5 % share, with the second-placed person holding only 8 % of the section, according to Krungsri Research.
Mr. Taopiphop aims to eliminate large entry barriers, most notably in the form of expected capital and annual production volumes, that favor large companies like Boon Rawd and ThaiBev. He claimed that this would enable little domestic manufacturers to capture 10 % of the business in ten years.