Vietnam: Guidance on penalties for administrative violations against regulations on standards and measurement

Tuyet Hoan

15:36, 31/01/2019

Recently, the Ministry of Science and Technology of Vietnam has issued Circular No. 18/2018/TT-BKHCN on guidelines for implementation of a number of Articles of Decree No. 119/2017/ND-CP of Vietnam’s Government on penalties for administrative violations against regulations on standards, measurement and quality of products and goods.

According to Circular No. 18/2018/TT-BKHCN of the Ministry of Science and Technology of Vietnam, violation that is the provision of false information about standards, technical regulations, measurement, goods quality for consumers or on mass media is any of the following violations committed by the producer, importer or seller:

- Provision of goods label information inconsistent with the information provided in the document on declaration of applicable standards or regulations or inconsistent with the goods quality in reality.

- Provision of information provided in the transaction documents or nameplate of goods sellers about goods or products registered standard and regulation conformity declaration or certified to be conformable to the standards and regulations or applied the quality management system during production despite the fact that such goods or products are not registered conformity declaration or not certified to be comfortable or not under management of the quality management system during production.

- Provision of false information about quality of goods or products on mass media.

View details at Circular No. 18/2018/TT-BKHCN of the Ministry of Science and Technology of Vietnam, effective from February 15, 2019.

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