Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade - Notification - Viet Nam - Product and goods quality

NOTIFICATION

The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6

 

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Notifying Member: VIET NAM

If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):

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Agency responsible:

Department of Quality Management and Conformity Assessment

Commission for Standards, Metrology and Quality of Viet Nam

8 Hoang Quoc Viet Str., Cau Giay Dist., Ha Noi, Viet Nam

Tel: +84. 2437911636

Fax: +84. 2437911595

Email: vuhchq@tcvn.gov.vn

Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:

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Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ ], 3.2 [ ], 7.2 [ ], other:

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Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Quality of product and goods

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Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Product and Goods Quality; (19 page(s), in Vietnamese)

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Description of content: The Law on Product and Goods Quality stipulates the rights and obligations of organizations and individuals producing and trading products and goods and organizations and individuals with activities related to product and goods quality; and product and goods quality management;

The Law on Product and Goods Quality applies to organizations and individuals producing and trading products and goods and organizations and individuals with activities related to product and goods quality in Vietnam.

This draft Law amends, supplements, adds and abolishes a number of articles of the Law on Product and Goods Quality, as follows:

1. Supplement and amend the following Articles: 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 26, 27, 28, 31, 34, 35, 36, 37, 40, 45, 47, 48, 68, 69, 70

2. New entry of the following Articles:

- Article 7a on National Quality Infrastructure

- Article 7b on application of technology in product and goods quality management

- Article 25a. Assessment of conformity for state management purposes

3. Abolishing:

- Regulations on "Paying costs and fees for inspection of imported goods quality as prescribed in Article 37" in Clause 15, Article 12.

- Regulations on "Collecting fees for inspection of imported goods quality as prescribed in Article 37" in Clause 7, Article 19.

- Regulations on Clauses 2 and 3, Article 37, Article 44 and Clause 3, Article 66.

Transitional provisions

1. In case products and goods have been manufactured, imported, circulated on the market within the effective period stated in the decision, the notice of receipt of dossiers for declaration of conformity, the certificates of conformity and have been managed in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Product and Goods Quality before the effective date of this Law, they will continue to be circulated on the market.

2. In case the conformity assessment organizations have registered their conformity assessment activities or have been designated to serve state management in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Product and Goods Quality before the effective date of this Law, they will continue their business until the end of the effective period stated in the certificate or designation decision.

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Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: Protection of human health or safety

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Relevant documents:

- Law on Goods and Products Quality dated November 21, 2007

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Proposed date of adoption: October 2025

Proposed date of entry into force: 45 days from the date of signing

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Final date for comments: 60 days from notification

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Texts available from: National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:

Department of Quality Management and Conformity Assessment

Commission for Standards, Metrology and Quality of Viet Nam

8 Hoang Quoc Viet Str., Cau Giay Dist., Ha Noi, Viet Nam

Tel: +84. 2437911636

Fax: +84. 2437911595

Email: vuhchq@tcvn.gov.vn