Vietnam: When is the validity of the certificate of approval for advertisement contents terminated?

According to Circular No. 09/2015/TT-BYT of the Ministry of Health of Vietnam, circumstances under which the validity of the certificate of approval for advertisement contents is terminated include:

Circumstances under which the validity of the certificate of approval for advertisement contents is terminated:

- Pharmaceutical products have the expired registration numbers;

- Pharmaceutical products have suspended registration numbers, or pharmaceutical products are subject to the warning of restricted use given by regulatory authorities;

- Change has been made to information about indications, contraindications or administration dosage.

Circumstances under which the validity of the certificate of approval for advertisement contents for cosmetic products is terminated:

- The receiving numbers of the notification of cosmetic products has expired;

- Cosmetic products subject to suspension of free circulation or revocation or recall of the receiving numbers of the notification of products;

- There is any change made to information affecting the safety and quality of cosmetic products.

Circumstances under which the validity of the certificate of approval for advertisement contents for foods, food additives, baby milk and nutritional products:

- The Certificate of Declaration of Conformity or Certificate of Declaration of conformity with the food safety regulations has been expired;

- The enterprise is subject to revocation of the certificate of conformity with food safety and hygiene requirements;

- Products or commodities are subject to change to ingredients or useful effects;

- Products or commodities are subject to suspension of free circulation, or are recalled.

Circumstances under which the Certificate of approval for contents of advertisements for chemicals, insecticides, disinfectants or sanitizers used in household appliance and health care industry is expired:

- The registration Certificate of free circulation for chemicals, insecticides and fertilizers used in household appliance and healthcare industry has expired;

- Products or commodities are subject to suspension of free circulation, or are recalled;

- Products or commodities have been changed or amended in terms of their ingredients, useful effects or other information causing impacts on the product safety in comparison with information about products or commodities specified in the valid registration certificate of free circulation issued by the Ministry of Health.

Circumstances under which the validity of the certificate of approval for medical equipment is terminated:

- The import permit or the registration certificate of free circulation for products or commodities has expired;

- Products or commodities are subject to suspension of free circulation, or are recalled.

Circumstances under which the validity of the certificate of approval for advertisement contents for healthcare services is terminated:

- Healthcare establishments are subject to revocation of the permit for operations, their operations are suspended;

- Healthcare establishments have been deprived of the ownership of the permit for operations in accordance with legal regulations on penalties for administrative violations;

- Healthcare establishments have been reissued the permit for operations due to change to their scope of professional operations in relation to healthcare services allowed to be advertised.

Other circumstances in accordance with legal regulations.

View more details at Circular No. 09/2015/TT-BYT of the Ministry of Vietnam, effective from July 16, 2015.

Le Hai

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