The conquest of Vietnam by France began in 1858 and was completed by 1884. It became part of French Indochina in 1887. Vietnam declared independence after World War II, but France continued to rule until its 1954 defeat by Communist forces under Ho Chi MINH. Under the Geneva Accords of 1954, Vietnam was divided into the Communist North and anti-Communist South. In 1975 North Vietnamese forces overran the South reuniting the country under Communist rule. Despite the return of peace, for over a decade the country experienced little economic growth because of conservative leadership policies. However, since the enactment of Vietnam''s "doi moi" (renovation) policy in 1986, Vietnamese authorities have committed to increased economic liberalization and enacted structural reforms needed to modernize the economy and to produce more competitive, export-driven industries.
Population - 2011: 90,549,390
Legal system: Based on communist legal theory and French civil law system.
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5-pages: This proposed technical regulation specifies management requirements as well as quality and safety criteria for Ice Cream products. Both domestic and foreign entities and individuals who produce and carry out business of Ice Cream products in the territory fo Vietnam shall comply with the regulation.
As per WTO Notification G/TBT/N/VNM/30 issued on 10 April 2013. Proposed date of adoption: 30 December 2013 / Proposed date of entry: 45 days after adoption.
Note: This document has been translated from the Vietnamese to English - AUD$175.00
3-pages: Covers: (1) General Provisions; (2) Requirement of, Order of, Procedures for Registration and Appointment of the Regulation Conformity Certification Organisations; (3) Duites of teh Receiver and the Appointed Regulation Conformity Certification Organisations; (4) Implementation Organisation.
11-pages: Covers: The draft Circular covers scope, application objects, explanation of terms, condition to identify functional food (condition with supplemented food, condition with health supplements, dietary supplements, condition with medical food), data for effectiveness (supplemented food, health supplements, dietary supplements), labelling functional food, condition to produce, trade, circulate, advertise functional food, recall of unsafe functional food.
As per WTO Notification G/SPS/N/VNM/39 issued on 03 January 2013. Proposed date of adoption: 15 March 2013 / Proposed date of publication: 15 March 2013 / Proposed date of entry into force: 20 May 2013.
This document is in Vietnamese. For a translation please contact our office, admin@asianfoodreg.com
9-pages: This proposed technical regulation specifies management requirements as well as quality and safety criteria for coffee products. Both domestic and foreign entities and individuals who produce and carry out business of coffee products in the territory fo Vietnam shall comply with the regulation.
As per WTO Notification G/TBT/N/VNM/27 issued on 10 April 2013. Proposed date of adoption: December 2013 / Proposed date of entry: 45 days after adoption.
This document is in Vietnamese. For a translation please contact our office, admin@asianfoodreg.com.
4-pages: This proposed technical regulation specifies management requirements as well as quality and safety criteria for cooked ham products. Both domestic and foreign entities and individuals who produce and carry out business of cooked ham products in the territory fo Vietnam shall comply with the regulation.
As per WTO Notification G/TBT/N/VNM/28 issued on 10 April 2013. Proposed date of adoption: December 2013 / Proposed date of entry: 45 days after adoption.
This document is in Vietnamese. For a translation please contact our office, admin@asianfoodreg.com.
14-pages: This proposed technical regulation specifies management requirements as well as quality and safety criteria for Dietary Food for Special Medical Purposes (for children over 1 year old) products. Both domestic and foreign entities and individuals who produce and carry out business of Dietary Food for Special Medical Purposes (for children over 1 year old) products in the territory fo Vietnam shall comply with the regulation.
As per WTO Notification G/TBT/N/VNM/29 issued on 10 April 2013. Proposed date of adoption: December 2013 / Proposed date of entry: 45 days after adoption.
This document is in Vietnamese. For a translation please contact our office, admin@asianfoodreg.com.
6-pages: This proposed technical regulation specifies management requirements as well as quality and safety criteria on the Safety and Hygiene Glass, Porclain or Enameled Implements, Containers and Packaging in Direct Contact with Food products. Both domestic and foreign entities and individuals who produce and carry out business on the Safety and Hygiene Glass, Porclain or Enameled implements, Containers and Packaging in Direct Contact with Food products in the territory fo Vietnam shall comply with the regulation.
As per WTO Notification G/TBT/N/VNM/31 issued on 10 April 2013. Proposed date of adoption: December 2013 / Proposed date of entry: 45 days after adoption.
This document is in Vietnamese. For a translation please contact our office, admin@asianfoodreg.com
22-pages: Law No. 16/2012/QH13: Covers: (I) General Regulations; (II) Rights and Obligations of the Organizations, Individuals in Advertisement; (III) Advertisement - Section 1: Means of Advertisement Requirements in Terms of Content and Conditions of Advertisement; Section 2 - Advertisement in Press, Websites, Electronic Equipment, Terminal Equipment and other Telecommunication Equipment; Section 3: Advertisement in Publications and other Prinited Products, Audio Records, Video Records and other Technology Equipment; Section 4: Advertisement on Billboards, Banners, Panels, Light Boxes, Advertising Screens and Means of Transportation; Section 5: Advertisement through Cultural, Sport Programs, Conferences, Workshops, Fairs, Exhibitions, Event Organization, Group of People, Advertising Objects and other means of Advertisement; Section 6: Outdoor Advertising; (IV) Foreign Related Advertisement; and (V) Implementation.
13-pages: Decree No. 99/2011/ND-CP - Covers: (I) General Provisions; (II) Protection of Consumers in Transactions with Persons Engaged in Independent and Regular Commercial Activities not Subject to Business Registration; (III) Contracts with Consumers and General Transaction Conditions; (IV) Settlement of Consumer Right Protection Requests; (V) Social Organisations Engaged in Consumer Right Protection; (VI) Mediation of Disputes between Consumers and Traders; (VII) State Management of Consumer Right Protection; and (VIII) Implementation Provisions.
16-pages: Order No. 16/2010/L-CTN - Covers: (I) General Provisions; (II) Responsibilities of Goods and Service Traders Towards Consumers; (III) Responsibilities of Social Organisations for Consumer Right Protection; (IV) Settlements of Disputes between Consumers and Goods and Service Traders; and (IV) Implementation Provisions.
20-pages: Covers: (1) General Provisions; (2) Responsibilities of Organisations or Individuals Trading Goods and / or Services to Consumers; (3) Responsibilities of Social Institutions in Protecting the Interests of Consumers; (4) Settlement of Disputes Between Consumers and Organisations or Individual Trading Goods and / or Services; (5) State Management Responsibilities for Protection of Consumers' Interests; and (6) Provisions of Implementation.
26-pages: Covers: (1) General Provisions; (2) Rights & Obligations of Organizations & Individuals in Assuring Food Safety; (3) Food Safety Assurance Conditions; (4) Food Safety Assurance Conditions for Food Production & Trading; (5) Certification of Food Safety Eligibility for Establishments in Food Production & Trading; (6) Food Import & Export; (7) Food Advertisement & Labeling; (8) Food Testing Analysis of Food Safety Risks, Prevention & Remedy of Food Safety Incidents; (9) Information, Education & Communication on Food Safety; (10) State Management of Food Safety; and (11) Implementation Provisions.
8-pages: Resolution No. 63/NQ-CP - Food (including food and food stuffs) security, which as always received a special concern and direction of the Party and State so as to ensure national food security in the immediate, and long-term future, is crowned with important achievements. Covers: (I) Viewpoints; (II) Objectives; (III) Major Tasks and Solutions, and (IV) Organisation of Implementation.
16-pages: Decision No. 132/2008/ND-CP - Covers: (I) General Provisions; (II) Control of Product and Goods Quality; (III) Organisation of Examination of Product and Goods Quality; (IV) National Quality Prizes; (V) Responsibilities for State Control of Product and Goods Quality; and (VI) Implementation Provisions.
26-pages: Order No. 14/2007/QH12 - Covers: (I) General Provisions; (II) Rights and Obligations of Organisations and Individuals towards Product and Goods Quality; (III) Control of Product and Goods Quality in Production, Import, Export, Circulation on Market and Use; (IV) Examination, Inspection of Product and Goods Quality; (V) Settlement of Disputes, Compensation for Damage, Settlement of Complaints and Denunications and Handling of Violations of the Law on Product and Goods Quality; (VI) Responsibility for State Control of Product and Goods Quality; and (VII) Implementation Provisions.
The objective of this Law is to stabilize and improve people's lifestyle and to develop the national economy through comprehensively and systematically implementing policies on food, agriculture and rural areas by means of establishing basic principles and basic matters for realizing them and clarifying the responsibilities of the state and local governments.
5-pages: This proposed technical regulation specifies management requirements as well as quality and safety criteria for Ice Cream products. Both domestic and foreign entities and individuals who produce and carry out business of Ice Cream products in the territory fo Vietnam shall comply with the regulation.
As per WTO Notification G/TBT/N/VNM/30 issued on 10 April 2013. Proposed date of adoption: 30 December 2013 / Proposed date of entry: 45 days after adoption.
Note: This document has been translated from the Vietnamese to English - AUD$175.00
3-pages: Circular No. 05/2013/TT-BNNPTNT - Covers: Amendments to: Clause 1 / Article 1; Clause 6 / Article 3; Clause 1 / Article 5 (point a & b); to amend and supplement the first paragraph of Article 10; Clause 3 / Article 14; Clause 4 / Article 27; and Clause 5 / Article 28.
3-pages: Covers: (1) General Provisions; (2) Requirement of, Order of, Procedures for Registration and Appointment of the Regulation Conformity Certification Organisations; (3) Duites of teh Receiver and the Appointed Regulation Conformity Certification Organisations; (4) Implementation Organisation.
11-pages: Covers: The draft Circular covers scope, application objects, explanation of terms, condition to identify functional food (condition with supplemented food, condition with health supplements, dietary supplements, condition with medical food), data for effectiveness (supplemented food, health supplements, dietary supplements), labelling functional food, condition to produce, trade, circulate, advertise functional food, recall of unsafe functional food.
As per WTO Notification G/SPS/N/VNM/39 issued on 03 January 2013. Proposed date of adoption: 15 March 2013 / Proposed date of publication: 15 March 2013 / Proposed date of entry into force: 20 May 2013.
This document is in Vietnamese. For a translation please contact our office, admin@asianfoodreg.com
9-pages: This proposed technical regulation specifies management requirements as well as quality and safety criteria for coffee products. Both domestic and foreign entities and individuals who produce and carry out business of coffee products in the territory fo Vietnam shall comply with the regulation.
As per WTO Notification G/TBT/N/VNM/27 issued on 10 April 2013. Proposed date of adoption: December 2013 / Proposed date of entry: 45 days after adoption.
This document is in Vietnamese. For a translation please contact our office, admin@asianfoodreg.com.
4-pages: This proposed technical regulation specifies management requirements as well as quality and safety criteria for cooked ham products. Both domestic and foreign entities and individuals who produce and carry out business of cooked ham products in the territory fo Vietnam shall comply with the regulation.
As per WTO Notification G/TBT/N/VNM/28 issued on 10 April 2013. Proposed date of adoption: December 2013 / Proposed date of entry: 45 days after adoption.
This document is in Vietnamese. For a translation please contact our office, admin@asianfoodreg.com.
14-pages: This proposed technical regulation specifies management requirements as well as quality and safety criteria for Dietary Food for Special Medical Purposes (for children over 1 year old) products. Both domestic and foreign entities and individuals who produce and carry out business of Dietary Food for Special Medical Purposes (for children over 1 year old) products in the territory fo Vietnam shall comply with the regulation.
As per WTO Notification G/TBT/N/VNM/29 issued on 10 April 2013. Proposed date of adoption: December 2013 / Proposed date of entry: 45 days after adoption.
This document is in Vietnamese. For a translation please contact our office, admin@asianfoodreg.com.
6-pages: This proposed technical regulation specifies management requirements as well as quality and safety criteria on the Safety and Hygiene Glass, Porclain or Enameled Implements, Containers and Packaging in Direct Contact with Food products. Both domestic and foreign entities and individuals who produce and carry out business on the Safety and Hygiene Glass, Porclain or Enameled implements, Containers and Packaging in Direct Contact with Food products in the territory fo Vietnam shall comply with the regulation.
As per WTO Notification G/TBT/N/VNM/31 issued on 10 April 2013. Proposed date of adoption: December 2013 / Proposed date of entry: 45 days after adoption.
This document is in Vietnamese. For a translation please contact our office, admin@asianfoodreg.com
7-pages: Circular No. 65/2012/TT-BNNPTNT - Covers: (I) General Provisions; (II) Order, Procedures for Granting Certificates; and (III) Implementation Provisions
5-pages: No. 26/2012/TT-BKHCN: Covers: (1) General Provisions; (2) The Content, Order, Procedures, and Handling of Violations; (3) Regulation on the Implementation
36-pages: No. 38/2012/ND-CP: Covers: (I) General Provisions; (II) Declaration of Conformity to Technical Regulations and to Food Safety Regulations; (III) Safety Requirements for Genetically Modified Foods; (IV) Granting and Withdrawing of Certification of Establishments having Eligible Conditions for Food Safety; (V) State Inspection of Food Safety for Imported and Exported Foods; (VI) Food Labeling; (VII) Assignment of State Management Responsibilities of Food Safety; (VIII) Professional Food Safety Inspection; and (VIII) Executive Provisions.
Includes: Appendix 01a: Reciept of Declaration of Conformity to Technical Regulation; Appendix 01b: Certificate of Conformity to Technical Regulation; Appendix 02: Declaration of Conformity to Technical Regulation; Appendix 03a: Product Specification; Appendix 03b: Product Specification for Functional and Fortified Food; Appendix 03c: Product Specification on Packages, Food Contact Containers; Appendix 04: Quality Control Plan; Appendix 05: Application for Re-granting Certificate of Conformity; Appendix 06: List of Food Producers / Traders Registered for Export to Vietnam; Appendix 07: Information on Food Safety Management and Monitoring Capacity of Compentent Agency of Exporting Country; Appendix 08: Brief Information on Conditions ensuring Food Safety of Food Producing / Trading Establishment.
26-pages: Covers: (1) General Provisions; (2) Rights & Obligations of Organizations & Individuals in Assuring Food Safety; (3) Food Safety Assurance Conditions; (4) Food Safety Assurance Conditions for Food Production & Trading; (5) Certification of Food Safety Eligibility for Establishments in Food Production & Trading; (6) Food Import & Export; (7) Food Advertisement & Labeling; (8) Food Testing Analysis of Food Safety Risks, Prevention & Remedy of Food Safety Incidents; (9) Information, Education & Communication on Food Safety; (10) State Management of Food Safety; and (11) Implementation Provisions.
2-pages: Article 1 - To provide for the labeling, and use of chemicals and food additives in processing and ice-glazing frozen fish products. Covers: (1) Labeling of Goods; (2) Food Additives; (3) Ice-glazing. Article 2 - Handling of Violations.
7-pages: Circular No. 09/2007/TT-BKHCN - The Ministry of Science and Technology shall guide some contents on labeling of goods as follows: (1) General Provisions; (2) Contents of the Goods Label; and (3) Implementation Provisions.
28-pages: Decree No. 89/2006/ND-CP - Covers: (1) General Provisions, includes Goods which Require Labels, Position of Goods Labels, Size of Good Labels, Colours of letters, signs and images shown on goods labels, Languages used on goods labels, Responsibility for Goods Labeling, etc. (2) Contents and Ways of Labeling of Goods; (3) State Management Responsibilities for Goods Labels; (4) Handling of Violations of Goods Labeling; (5) Implementation Provisions. Appendix I: Regulations on Ways of Presentation of Goods Quantities; Appendix II: Regulation on Other Ways of Presentation of Points of Time for Goods; Appendix III: Regulation on Other Ways of Presentation of Ingredients and Ingredient Quantities of Goods; and Appendix IV: Regulation on Other Ways of Presentatoon of Technical Specifications and Hygiene and safety Information and Warnings of Goods.
7-pages: Issued together with Decision No 178/1999/QD-TTg - Covers: (I) General Provisions; (II) Inscribing Content of Goods Labels; (III) State Management Over the Goods Labeling; (IV) Violating Acts; (VI) Implementation Provisions. Includes: On 15 August, 2000, The Prime Minister promulgated Decision No.95/2000/QD-TT amending Decision No.178/1999/QD-TT. The amendments are summarized on Page 7.
3-pages: Covers: (1) General Provisions; (2) Requirement of, Order of, Procedures for Registration and Appointment of the Regulation Conformity Certification Organisations; (3) Duites of teh Receiver and the Appointed Regulation Conformity Certification Organisations; (4) Implementation Organisation.
350-pages: Circular No. 27/2012/TT-BYT - Covers: Pages 1 ~ 4: Regulation; Pages 5 ~ 38: Appendix 1: List of Food Additives Allowed to be used in Food (English); Pages 39 ~ 66: The List of Food Additives Used by the Vietnamese Name (in Vietnamese); Pages 67 ~ 94: The List of Food Additives Used by the English Name (in Vietnamese); Pages 95 ~ 335: Appendix 2: Maximum Limit for Food Additives (in Vietnamese); Pages 336 ~ 350: Explanatory Notes (in Vietnamese)
5-pages: This document covers the following three laws: (1) Decision - On management of Melamine in Livestock Production and Aquaculture (issued 28 November, 2008); (2) Decision - Promulgating the Maximum Limits of Cross-Contamination Melamine in Food (issued 11 December, 2008); (3) Regulations - On the Maximum Limits of Cross-Contamination Melamine in Food (issued 11 December, 2008).
2-pages: Article 1 - To provide for the labeling, and use of chemicals and food additives in processing and ice-glazing frozen fish products. Covers: (1) Labeling of Goods; (2) Food Additives; (3) Ice-glazing. Article 2 - Handling of Violations.
10-pages: Decision No. 42/2005/QD-BYT - Applies to Foods, Food Additives, Food Processing Enhancers, Cigarettes and Food Raw Materials manufactured at home or Imported for sale and consumption in Vietnam. Covers: (I) General Provisions; (II) Dossiers and Procedures for Statement of Product Specifications; (III) Dossiers and Procedures for Extension of Time Limit for Product Specification Statement; and (IV) Testing, Inspection and Regime of Fee Collection and Reporting.
7-pages: Decision No. 6289/2003/QD-BYT - Covers: (I) General Provisons; (II) Requirements on Micronutrients and Some Kinds of Foods to be Added with Micronutrients; (III) Requirements on Producers, Processors and Traders of Food Added with Micronutrients; (IV) Requirements on Labeling, Packing, Preservation and Transportation of Food Added with Micronutrients; (V) Examination, Inspection and Handling of Violations; and (VI) Implementation Provisions.
Includes: Appendix 1: Regulations on addition of micronutrients to Baby Food; Appendix 2: Regulationson Addition of Iron to Fish Sauce; Appendix 3: Regulations on addition of micronutrients to Wheat Flour; Appendix 4: Regulations on addition of Vitamin A to Cooking Oil; Appendix 5: Regulations on addition of Vitamin A to Edible Sugar; Appendix 6: Regulations on addition of Vitamin and Minerals to Baby Food and Flour.
8-pages: Decision No. 928 / 2002 / QD-BYT. Covers: (I) General Provisions; (II) Conditions for Ensuring Food Hygiene and Safety in the Production of, Trading in, and Use of, Food Additives; (III) Responsibilities of Establishments Producing, Trading in and Using Food Additives; (IV) Responsibilities to Manage the Production of, Trading in, and Use of Food Additives; and (V) Commendation and Handling of Violations.
21-pages: Circular No. 29/2010/TT-BNNPTNT - Covers: Appendix 1: List of Food Safety Criteria and Maximum Levels thereof in Certain Foodstuffs of Terrestrial Animal Origin; Appendix 2: List of Food Safety Criteria and Maximum Levels thereof in Certain Foodstuffs of Aquatic Animal Origin. Includes HS Codes.
5-pages: Covers: Annex 1: List of Chemicals, Antibiotics prohibited from use in Fishery Production and Trading; Annex 2: List of Drugs, Chemicals, Antibiotics prohibited from use in Veterinary Services; Annex 3: List of Chemicals, Antibiotics restricted from use in Fishery Production and Trading; Annex 4: List of Drugs, Chemicals, Antibiotics restricted from use in Veterinary Services.
126-pages: Covers: Disclaimer; (2) MRLs of Veterinary Drug in Food; (3) Limit of Mycotoxin in Food; (4) Hygiene Safety requirements for Food Packaging Materials; (5) Limits of Heavy Metal in Food; (6) Limit level of Micro-Organisms in Food; (7) List of Supporting Agents allowed to use in Food Production / Processing; (8) Vietnam Maximum Pesticide Residue Level allowed in Food.