Vietnam: Updates to the Law on Standards and Technical Regulations

 

Vietnam has published a draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Standards and Technical Regulations.

The Law on Standards and Technical Regulations stipulates the activities of developing, promulgating and applying standards; developing, promulgating and applying technical regulations; assessing conformity with standards and technical regulations;

The Law on Standards and Technical Regulations applies to Vietnamese organizations and individuals, foreign organizations and individuals, and overseas Vietnamese who conduct activities related to standards and technical regulations in Vietnam.

This draft Law amends, supplements, adds and abolishes a number of articles of the Law on Standards and Technical Regulations, as follows:

1. Amend and supplement the following Articles: 3, 7, 8, 11, 15, 17, 21, 27, 32, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 57, 59, 60,
2. Supplement, replace, and remove some words and phrases in the following Articles, clauses, and points:
3. Replace the word “certification” with the word “assessment” in the name of Section 4, Chapter IV.
4. Replace the word “cancel” with the word “abolish” in: Article 19; clause 1, Article 22; Article 35; Point a, clause 1, Article 36.
5. Replace the word “scientific non-business unit” with the word “scientific and technological organization” in clause 1, Article 54.
6. Remove the phrase “in urgent cases related to health, safety, and the environment, the period for comments may be shortened” in Point b, clause 1 and Point b, clause 2, Article 17.
7. Remove the word “appraisal” in Point a, Clause 3, Article 35.

The proposed date of entry into force is to be determined.

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