What are regulations on responsibilities of the product owner in Vietnam?

What are regulations on responsibilities of the product owner in Vietnam? (Image from the Internet)

Responsibilities of the product owner are specified in Article 11 of Circular 28/2012/TT-BKHCN on Regulations on declaration of standard conformity and declaration of technical-regulation conformity and method to assess the conformity with standards and technical regulations issued by the Minister of Science and Technology. To be specific:

- To select methods to assess the conformity so as to ensure the reliability of assessment result.

- To maintain continuously and take responsibility for the conformity of products, goods, services, process and environment as registered for declaration of standard conformity; maintain the quality control, testing and supervision on a periodical basis at the premises of the product owner.

- When detecting the non-conformity of products, goods, services, process, and environment having the declaration of standard conformity, during the circulation and use, the product owner must:

+ Temporarily stop ex-warehousing and conduct recall of unconformable products and goods circulating on the market in case such unconformable products and goods have high risks of causing danger for users; stop the operation, exploitation of relevant process, services and environment as necessary;

+ To conduct measures to overcome the non-conformity;

+ To inform in writing to Sub-Departments about result of overcoming the non-conformity before continue putting the products, goods, services, process, environment into use, circulation, exploitation, and business.

- To make and store applications for registration of the declaration of standard conformity as follows:

+ In case of declaration of standard conformity based on result of certifying the standard conformity of the registered certifying organizations (the third party), a stored application for registration of the declaration of standard conformity includes originals, copies of papers as prescribed in Clause 1 Article 6 and documents about assessment and supervision by the registered certifying organizations;

+ In case of declaration of standard conformity based on result of self-assessment by the product owner (first party), a stored application for registration of the declaration of standard conformity includes originals, copies of papers as prescribed in Clause 2 Article 9 and documents about self-assessment by the product owner under the supervision plan.

- To provide documents to prove assurance of conformity of products, goods, services, process and environment with the respective standard as required by competent state agencies.

- To provide original copy of notice on receiving application for registration of the declaration of standard conformity to the product owner business in products, goods, services, process and environment.

- To make another declaration when there is any change about content of the registered application for registration of the declaration of standard conformity or any change about feature, utility, characteristic of products, goods, or services having the declaration of standard conformity.

Above is the consulting content.