Environmental Protection
Adequate and efficient guidelines and measures to protect environmental quality and to reduce environmental impact must be installed. The Board will give special consideration to the location and pollution treatment of a project with potential environmental impact,
Projects or activities with type and size that are required to submit environmental impact assessment reports must comply with related environmental laws and regulations or Cabinet resolution,
Projects located in different locations must comply with different requirements specified by BOI.
4.3 Minimum Capital Investment and Project Feasibility
The minimum capital investment requirement of each project is 1 million Baht (excluding cost of land and working capital).
As for knowledge-based services i.e. creative product design and development center, electronic design, software, R&D and engineering design, the minimum capital investment requirement is based on the minimum salaries expense of personnel in the specified field of at least 1.5 million Baht / year according to conditions of each activity,
For newly established projects, the debt-to-equity ratio must not exceed 3 to 1. Expansion projects shall be considered on a case by case basis,
Projects with investment value of over 750 million Baht, (excluding cost of land and working capital) must submit the project’s feasibility study.