Procedures for Issuing registration dossier receipts of cosmetic advertising in Vietnam

Procedures for Issuing registration dossier receipts of cosmetic advertising in Vietnam (Illustrative Image)

According to Article 27 of Circular 06/2011/TT-BYT, the order and procedure of issuing the registration dossier receipt of cosmetic advertising, seminar organization, and cosmetic introduction event in Vietnam are stipulated as follows:

​1. After receiving the registration file of cosmetic advertising seminar organization and cosmetic introduction event which are regular in accordance with provisions of this Circular and the fee as current provisions, the Health Department sends to file applying organizations the receipt of cosmetic advertising seminar organization and cosmetic introduction event registration file (Appendix 11-MP) with the advertising pattern or the sceneries meet requirements (applied to the cosmetic advertising registration file). The date printed on the file receipt is the date when the Health department has received the full regular file. After 10 working days, since the day of received file, if the Health department does not require any amending or supplementing in writing, those organizations shall be permitted to make advertisement, operate seminar, cosmetic introduction event in regard to the registered content.

2. In case the file is irregular to this Circular’s provisions, the Health department shall notify the organization with an announcement in writing to supplement, complete the dossier.

- In the announcement, must be stated clearly, in detailing of amending and supplementing documents and contents.

- The organization has to amend and supplement according to the mentioned contents in the required amending and supplementing document and send back to the Health department. When the organization has yet supplemented the file fully, the Health department shall send a file receipt, the date printed on the file receipt is the date when Health department has received the full supplemented file. After 10 working days, since the day of receiving the supplemented advertisement content, if the Health department does not send out a amending and supplementing requirement in writing, the organization shall be permitted to advertise, operate seminar, cosmetic introduce event in regard to the amended content.

- In case, the supplemented file cannot rightly satisfy the referred contents in the amending and supplementing document, the Health department shall notify to the organization not to advertise, operate seminar, cosmetic introduce event as registered contents. Therefore, if the organization wants to continue to advertise, operate seminar, cosmetic introduce event, have to apply the file again, order of the file registration and consideration shall be implemented from the beginning and pay the fee as provided.

- In 02 months, since the Health department sends a document on contents need be supplemented to the file applying organization, if the Health department does not receive any document attached with the supplementing file, the registration file of advertisement, seminar, cosmetic introduce event operation shall be invalid in Vietnam.

More details can be found in Circular 06/2011/TT-BYT, which comes into effect in Vietnam from April 01, 2011.

Thuy Tram

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