Vietnam: Amendments to the Law on Product and Goods Quality

 

Vietnam has passed a new Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Product and Goods Quality.

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.

The new 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 of the new law are:

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.

To find out more about product compliance in Vietnam, please contact the Product Compliance Institute directly.