What are requirements for providing commercial assessment services in Vietnam? What are regulations on assessment certificates in Vietnam?

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Pursuant to Articles 254, 255 and 256 of the Law on Commercial in 2005 stipulating as follows:

Assessment services are commercial activities whereby traders perform necessary jobs to determine actual conditions of goods, results of the provision of services and other contents at the request of customers. Assessment comprises one or a number of contents regarding the quantity, quality, packing, value of goods, origin of goods, losses, safety, hygienic and quarantine standards, results of the provision of services, method of providing services and other contents at the request of customers.

Only traders that satisfy all the conditions provided for by law and are granted business registration certificates for provision of commercial assessment services shall be allowed to provide assessment services and issue assessment certificates.

Pursuant to Article 257 of the Law on Commercial in 2005, traders providing commercial assessment services must fully satisfy the following conditions:

1. Being enterprises established according to the provisions of law;

2. Having assessors who have all the qualifications specified as follows:

a/ Possessing a university or college degree suitable to the requirements of the domain of assessment;

b/ Having a professional certificate for the assessment domain in cases where such professional certificate is required by law;

c/ Having worked for at least three years in the domain of assessment of goods or services.

3. Being capable of carrying out procedures and methods for assessing goods or services under the provisions of law, the international standards or which are commonlly applied by countries in assessment of such goods or services.

Traders providing commercial assessment services shall be allowed to provide assessment services in domains of assessment only when they fully satisfy the conditions as prescribed in the laws.

Assessment certificates are documents determining the actual conditions of goods and services according to the assessment contents required by customers. Assessment certificates must be signed by competent representatives of enterprises providing commercial assessment services, have signatures and full names of assessors, and be affixed with professional seals already registered with competent agencies. Assessment certificates shall only be valid for those contents already assessed. Traders providing assessment services shall be responsible for accuracy of results and conclusions in assessment certificates. (Article 260 of the Law on Commercial in 2005)

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