CIRCULAR

On the technical safety and environmental safety inspection in automobile manufacture and assembly

Pursuant to the Law on Road Traffic dated November 13, 2008;

Pursuant to Law on Products and Goods Quality dated November 21, 2007;

Pursuant to the Law on Environmental Protection dated June 23, 2014;

Pursuant to Decree No. 132/2008/ND-CP dated December 31, 2008 by the Government elaborating a number of Articles of the Law on Products and Goods Quality;

Pursuant to Decree No. 116/2017/ND-CP dated October 17, 2017 of the Government on the conditions for manufacture, assembly, import and trade of automobile warranty and maintenance services;

Pursuant to Decree No. 12/2017/ND-CP dated February 10, 2017 of the Government on functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structure of the Ministry of Transport;

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The Minister of Transport promulgates Circular on technical safety and environmental safety inspection in automobile production and assembly.

Chapter I

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1. Scope

1. This Circular prescribes the technical safety and environmental safety inspection of automobile domestically manufactured and assembled as specified in Decree No. 116/2017/ND-CP dated October 17, 2017 of the Government on the conditions for manufacture, assembly, import and trade of automobile warranty and maintenance services (hereinafter referred to as “Decree 116”) and automotive components.

2. This Circular does not apply to automobiles domestically manufactured and assembled as specified in Point a Clause 2 Article 2 of Circular 116.

Article 2. Regulated entities

This Circular applies to automobile manufacturing facilities, assembly lines, automotive component manufacturing facilities or importers and other organizations and agencies in connection with the automobile and automotive component management, examination and testing.

Article 3. Term interpretation

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1. "Parts” are engine, chassis, cabin, body, cargo container or specialized equipment installed on the automobile;

2. ”Systems" are the transmission system, dynamic system, suspension system, brake system, steering system, fuel systems, electric system, light and indicator system;

3. ”Components” are the parts, systems and pieces of automobile;

4. ”Products” are components or automobile;

5. ”Automobiles of the same type” are products with the same features as prescribed in Appendix I issued together with this Circular;

6. “Type approval” is the process of inspecting, testing, considering and assessing the conformity of one type of products based on the technical regulations, standards and current provisions of the Minister of Transport on technical safety and environmental safety quality;

7. “Representative samples” are products selected by the manufacturing facilities or quality control agencies to perform inspections and tests;

8. “Manufacturing facilities” are components manufacturing facilities qualified according to current provisions or automobile manufacturing facilities and assembly lines qualified for manufacturing and assembling as specified in Decree 116;

9. “Designing facilities” are enterprises established as specified by regulations and law.

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11. “Testing facilities” are organizations which test the components or automobiles as per law;

12. “Technically defective products” are products containing defects during design, manufacturing processes and assembly that possibly endanger the users’ lives and property as well as negatively affect the community’s environment and safety ;

13. “Risk management” is the systematic application of law provisions, procedures and professional measures to identify, assess and classify the risks that possibly affect the product quality of the manufacturing facilities which lead to the necessary management measures taken by quality control agencies;

14. “Online registration procedures” are the declaration, acquisition, process of registered information, exchange of information relating registering procedures between relevant parties performed via online register data processing system;

15. “Online registration data processing system” is the information system under the management of quality control agencies for online registration procedures;

16. “Online registration system” is the information system via which the producing or import facilities can declare and receive information and feedback of the quality control agencies during the implementation of online registration procedures;

17. “Online product registration record” is a kind of digital document consisting of a collection of information declared by the manufacturing or import facilities;

18. “Online operational accidents” are cases in which the system processing online registered data or the system for online registration fails to perform online tasks due to objective cause.

Chapter II

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Article 4. Automobile design dossier

1. Automobile design dossier consists of:

a) Application form for automobile design appraisal specified in Appendix XI issued together with this Circular;

b) The explanation of technical design and technical drawing specified in Appendix II issued together with this Circular;

c) The copies of the specification and technical features of the parts and systems relating to the calculation content.

2. For automobiles domestically manufactured and assembled under the foreign designs and trademarks, the manufacturing facilities are exempted from making design dossier specified in Clause1 of this Article if the following documents are provided:

a) The copy of the automobile technical drawing must be verified by the technology transferring party and display the following information: the automobile general arrangement; the automobile basic dimensions; the arrangement and space for seats, beds; positions and space for lights, rear-view mirrors; the width of the whole cabin and dimension of the cargo container (applies to containers); dimension and positions of main doors, emergency exit doors, entrance doors, walkways; dimensions and positions of the cargo compartment (applies to coaches);

b) The copies of the specifications and basic features of the domestically manufactured, assembled automobiles verified and provided by the technology transferring party;

c) The copy of the Type approval certificate s verified by the technology transferring party and provided by the overseas competent authorities.

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1. The automobile design dossiers must be appraised by the quality control agencies.

2. Implementation order and methods:

a) The designing facilities must compile the automobile design dossiers specified in Clause 1 Article 4 of this Circular and apply either directly, via post office, website or any means to the quality control agencies. If the dossiers are in written form, the designing facilities must submit 02 sets of dossier (03 sets if the designing facility is separate from the manufacturing facility);

b) The quality control agencies receive and inspect the dossiers composition. If the dossiers are not completed as per law, the quality control agencies will return the directly submitted dossier within the working day or dossier submitted by any other means within 02 working days from the date of receiving the dossiers, and will instruct the designing facilities to complete the dossiers. If the dossiers are completed, the quality control agencies will receive and appraise the dossier;

c) The quality control agencies must compare the contents of the automobile design dossiers with current technical regulations and standards of the Minister of Transport on technical safety and environmental safety of automobile within 10 days. If the design dossiers are satisfactory, the quality control agencies shall issue the Design appraisal certificates according to the form specified in Appendix III issued together with this Circular;

If the automobile design dossiers contain unsatisfactory contents, the quality control agencies will issue notices about the unsatisfactory contents so that the designing facilities will amend as per law. The designing facilities must complete the design dossiers within 30 days from the date of notice issuance. Upon expiry of the mentioned time limit, the quality control agencies will cease the design dossier appraisal. In the event the automobile design dossier appraisal is ceased, the designing facilities will have to register again from the beginning;

d) The designing facilities will receive the appraising results consist of: Design appraisal certificates, 01 explanation record of technical design and technical drawings of the appraised design (02 explanation records if the designing facilities are separate from the manufacturing facilities) directly at the office of the quality control agencies, via post office or any other suitable means.

3. Design dossiers reappraisal

The designing facilities shall compile 01 set of dossier as specified in Clause 1 Article 4 relating to the changed contents of the design dossiers and submit to the quality control agencies for reappraisal in the following cases:

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b) There are changes in the technical standards and regulations except when the Type approval certificate of this product type has been issued and is still valid.

4. The designing facilities must compile new design dossiers if the amended contents fail to satisfy the requirements of products of the same type specified in Appendix I issued together with this Circular.

Article 6. Testing representative samples

1. The manufacturing facilities must send the representative samples to the testing facilities. The criteria and subjects required to be tested and examined are specified in Appendix IV issued together with this Circular.

2. The testing facilities rely on the quality, standards and regulations specified in relevant legislative documents to instruct the manufacturing, import facilities to provide documents necessary for testing and examination.

3. The testing facilities conduct the test on representative samples according to the current technical regulations and standards of the Minister of Transport; then compile reports on the test results. The testing reports are valid within 36 months from the date of registering the Type approval certificate s.

Article 7. Application for the Type approval certificate

1. The application for Type approval certificate s which applies to components subject to tests, examinations and certification specified in Appendix IV issued together with this Circular includes:

a) The Type approval certificate s application form specified in Appendix XI issued together with this Circular;

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c) The copy of the report on component testing results according to respective National Technical Regulation in Vietnam;

d) The copy of the technical drawing bearing technical specification; the legends for symbols, letters and numbers imprinted on the products (if any);

dd) The copy of the import goods declaration if the certification is issued based on the import goods declaration.

2. The automobile Type approval certificate s application includes:

a) The Type approval certificate s application form specified in Appendix XI issued together with this Circular;

b) A specification of the automobiles domestically manufactured, assembled by model as specified in Appendix V issued together with this Circular attached with pictures of the entirety of the automobiles, pictures of the notable equipments (if any).

c) A copy of the report on technical safety and environmental safety inspection results according to current the quality, standards and National Technical Regulation apply to automobiles in Vietnam

The report on engine exhaust inspection will be exempt if any of the following documents is provided: a verified copy of the confirmation provided by the foreign engine manufacturer together with documents relating the results of imported engine’s exhaust conformance verification under the terms and conditions of the agreements of countries and territories which Vietnam has signed regarding mutual recognition in motor vehicle verification; a verified copy of the confirmation provided by the foreign engine manufacturer’s legal representative in Vietnam together with a copy of the valid Engine emission Type approval certificate s issued by the quality control agency; a copy of the valid Engine emission Type approval certificate s issued by the quality control agency if the engine is manufactured and assembled by domestic engine manufacturing facility, and transferred to the automobile manufacturing and assembling facility.

d) A copy of the Design appraisal certificates, an explanation of technical design and technical drawing of the design dossier appraised by the quality control agency or substitutions specified in Clause 2 Article 4 of this Circular;

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e) A copy of the explanation of the chassis and engine imprinting methods and positions.

Article 8. Ensuring products quality in manufacturing processes and assembly

1. The manufacturing facilities must apply the quality control system to guarantee that the quality of manufacture, assembly and finished products meets all of the provisions, technical standards and regulations. The application of quality control system shall be implemented via the procedures for manufacture and assembly instruction, procedures for professional quality and conformance tests of product types instruction from component testing, quality control in each stage to finished product quality control; the procedures for rectification and prevention of product defects; the procedures for archiving the documents and managing the product quality inspection dossier.

2. The quality control agencies shall assess the Conformity of Production (COP) based on the following methods:

a) First-time assessment shall be carried out upon the issuance of the Type approval certificate of product type based on the categories specified in the IATF 16949 standards “Quality management requirements for organizations and components relating services in the automotive industry”. To be specific:

Assess the adequacy of procedures specified in Clause 1 of this Article; assess the actual operation of the quality control system in manufacture, assembly and product quality control; the traceability materials, components, date of manufacture, finishing date;

Assess the operation status, the accuracy and conformity with the manufactured product type of the testing equipments in each manufacturing phase and perform finishing quality control as specified in Appendix VII issued together with this Circular;

Assess the product quality control and the capability to use the assigned quality testing equipments of the technicians; the performance of the technicians jointly in charge of automobile finishing quality control.

b) Follow-up assessment shall be carried out to assess the implementation and maintaining of quality control of the manufacturing facilities; during these assessment periods, the quality control agencies will collect random samples to assess the archive of dossier, documents relating to the products and the conformity of the finishing products compare to the Type approval certificate application. The time for follow-up assessment periods of component manufacturing facilities will be 36 months; of automobile manufacturing and assembling facilities will be determined based on the basis of risk management application in quality control of manufactured and assembled products specified in Article 14 and Appendix X issued together with this Circular.

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a) The COP assessment whose methods specified in Point a Clause 2 of this Article;

b) Exemption from COP assessment in the following periods if the manufacturing facilities present papers bearing the unexpired COP assessment results which are in conformance with the ECE, EC regulations conducted by the overseas regulatory authorities or independent assessment organizations authorized by the overseas regulatory authorities.

4. The COP assessment will not be carried out when:

a) The type of products is manufactured and assembled in accordance with the technology and inspection procedures which have not undergone any basic changes or simplification compare to the technology and inspection procedures of the previously assessed product type;

b) The type of imported components is registered for verification based on the import declaration.

Article 9. Issuance of Type approval certificate

1. The procedures of issuing the Type approval certificate of product type (hereinafter referred to as “Certificate") are as follows:

a) The component manufacturing and import facilities (hereinafter referred to as “enterprises”) compile 01 set of application for certifying type approval (hereinafter referred to as “certificate application”) as specified in Clause 1 or Clause 2 Article 7 of this Circular and submit directly, via post office, via websites or any other means to the quality control agencies;

b) The quality control agencies receive and inspect the composition of the certificate application. If the application is not completed as per law, the quality control agency will return the directly submitted application within the working day or application submitted by any other means within 02 working days from the date of receiving the application, and will instruct the enterprises to complete the application.

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d) The quality control agencies shall issue the Certificate according to the form specified in Appendix VIII issued together with this Circular within 03 working days from the day on which the application is satisfactory to regulations and law, and has adequate COP assessment results;

dd) The enterprises shall receive the Certificate directly at the office of the quality control agencies, via post office or any other suitable means.

2. If the imported components are registered for verification based on the import declaration, the Certificate for imported components type only applies to components of the same type in the same import declaration.

Article 10. Regulations on mass manufacture and assembly

1. The manufacturing facilities must inspect the release quality for each mass manufactured products (hereinafter referred to as “release inspection”), ensure that the products are up to technical standards and regulations, in conformance with the application for type approval certification and representative samples after the product type has been granted the Certificate.

2. The manufacturing facilities must ensure the origins and quality of finishing products and label the products as per law. The release of automobiles are only allowed when the Certificate for components subject to examinations, tests and verification specified to Appendix IV issued together with this Circular is still effective.

3. The assembling facilities must not use the chassis or engine whose stamped numbers are erased, punched, altered or restamped to assemble automobiles. If the domestically stamped chassis numbers (VIN) or engine numbers of an automobile are defective, difficult to read or damaged (stamping fault), the manufacturing facilities must restamp the VIN or engine numbers and send notices to the quality control agencies informing the cause and solutions. The notices must contain: the restamped VIN or engine numbers; the restamping position; pictures displaying clearly the faultily stamped numbers, the faultily stamped numbers have been nullified with an “X”, numbers after being restamped; pictures displaying the correlation between the old and the new numbers.

4. The manufacturing facilities must compile and provide each released automobile 01 set of documents consists of:

a) Release quality inspection record (hereinafter referred to as “Release record”) as specified in Appendix IX issued together with this Circular.  The release record must be signed and stamped by the competent person (the heads, deputies or direct subordinates authorized by paper of the heads of manufacturing facilities);

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c) The product warrant numbers or warrantee in Vietnamese which displays the duration and conditions for guarantee, the frequency and contents of maintenance works and addresses of maintenance facilities that meet the requirements of regulations and law.

5. The manufacturing facilities only grant the release record for automobiles which have satisfied the release inspection.

6. For facilities which have violated provisions specified in Clause 1 Article 13 of this Circular, apart from being suspended from releasing product type as per law, the manufacturing facilities can only be granted release record for automobiles of the type that has not violated after the release self—inspection results are sent to the quality control agencies until the suspension is lifted as specified in Clause 3 Article 13 of this Circular.

7. The quality control agencies shall decide to form inspectorates and perform irregular inspection on manufacturing facilities regarding the compliance with provisions specified in this Circular when:

a) There are well-grounded reflections, complaints relating to product quality for trade;

b) Requested by the regulatory authorities;

c) If the inspections suggest the manufacturing facilities violate any of the provisions on maintaining the product quality and quality control; the released products fail to meet the quality or the quality is not in conformance with the Type approval certificate application and the representative samples which were verified; issuance of Release record are not in compliance with regulations and law or violating other provisions specified in this Circular, the quality control agencies must consider provisions specified in Article 13 of this Circular and take the respective risk management measures specified Article 14 and Appendix X issued together with this Circular.

8. The manufacturing facilities must report and inform the quality inspection agencies about the released automobiles.

Article 11. Reissue the Certificate of Type approval

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2. The reissuance application consists of:

a) Application form specified in Appendix XI issued together with this Circular;

b) Documents specified in Clause 1 or Clause 2 Article 7 of this Circular of the previous Certificate expired. The submission of documents will be exempt if there are no changes to the documents in the original Type approval certificate registration which has been granted the Certificate.

3. The procedures:

a) The enterprises compile 01 set of documents as specified in Clause 2 of this Article, send directly, via post office, via websites or any other suitable means to the quality control agencies;

b) The quality control agencies receive and inspect the dossiers composition. If the application is not completed as per law, the quality control agency will return the directly submitted application within the working day or application submitted by any other means within 02 working days from the date of receiving the application, and will instruct the enterprises to complete the application.

c) The quality control agencies shall inspect the contents of the documents. If the documents are satisfactory and have conformable COP assessment results, the quality control agencies shall reissue the Certificate within 02 working days if the previous Certificate is lost, damaged or its information relating the names and addresses of the enterprises on the Certificate is amended; or within 03 working days if the previous Certificate expired.

If the previous Certificate expired, in order to reissue the Certificate, the quality control agencies must collect samples randomly in the manufactured, assembled or imported batch for testing based on respective regulations, technical standards and regulations in Vietnam.

4. The effective period of the reissued Certificate due to loss, damage or amendment to information relating names and addresses of the enterprises shall be the effective period of the previously issued Certificate.

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1. The extension of the Certificate or amendment to the registration certificate for type approval registration shall be implemented when the product type previously issued with the expired Certificate is changed relative to the certificate of type approval documents but still guarantees the requirements for products of the same type specified in Appendix I issued together with this Circular. To be specific:

a) The extended Certificate shall be issued if the product type whose changes specified in Clause 3 Appendix I issued together with this Circular influence the technical safety and environmental safety of the product relative to the technical standards and regulations or changes alter the technical data printed on the previously issued Certificate;

b) The amended certificate for type approval registration shall be issued if the product’s changes are not specified in Point a of this Clause.

2. The application for Certificate extension or amendment when the product changes relative to the product type must include:

a) The application form specified in Appendix XI issued together with this Circular, documents regarding the product’s changes;

b) The results of supplementary test report on technical safety and environmental safety requirements specified in technical standards and regulations, and regulations relating the product’s changed categories in Vietnam;

The test will be exempt if the product’s changes cover the aesthetic and convenience aspects but not the technical safety and environmental safety specifications which the issuance of the Certificate is based on.

3. The procedures:

a) The enterprises compile 01 set of documents as specified in Clause 2 of this Article, send directly, via post office, via websites or any other suitable means to the quality control agencies;

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c) The quality control agencies shall inspect the application contents, if the contents are satisfactory, valid and conformable according to the COP assessment results, the quality control agencies shall issued the extended Certificate within 03 working days from the day on which they receive the valid application. In the case of registration amendment, changes must be recorded and added to the previously issued certificate for type approval registration. The quality control agencies must inform the enterprises about the unsatisfactory contents to complete the registration.

4. The effective period of the extended Certificate shall be the effective period of the previously issued Certificate for automobile type.

Article 13. Suspension of product type release and revocation of issued Certificate for product type

1. Suspension of product type release

The quality control agencies must request the manufacturing facilities to suspend the manufacturing processes of product types if:

a) The manufacturing facilities: fail to maintain the product quality control as per law; fail to carry out the release inspection as per law; fail to ensure the conformance of the released products to the certificate for type approval registration and the verified representative samples of the product type; fail to issue the Release record as per law;

b) Failure to recall technically defective products as specified in Chapter III of this Circular;

c) The manufacturing facilities deliberately erase, punch or alter the numbers of the chassis or engine without reporting to the quality control agencies;

2. Suspension of the release of every product type

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a) The manufacturing facilities violate the cases specified in Point a, b, c, d Clause 1 of this Article on many product types.

b) The certificate of eligibility to manufacture and assemble automobiles of the manufacturing facilities is suspended or revoked as per law.

3. Cancelling the product release suspension:

The quality control agencies shall cancel the release suspension and inform the manufacturing facilities after the manufacturing facilities have fully rectified their violations.

4. The Certificate revocation

The Certificate will be revoked if:

a) The manufacturing facilities dissolve, go bankrupt as per law.

b) The manufacturing facilities fabricate documents in the certificate for type approval registration;

c) The manufacturing facilities fail to rectify their violations within 06 months from the date the Certificate is suspended as specified in Clause 1, Clause 2 of this Article.

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Article 14. Risk management

1. The quality control agencies shall depend on the assessment categories of risk levels to classify the enterprises, take respective management measures as elaborated in Appendix X issued together with this Circular and publicize on the websites of the quality control agencies.

2. If there are any changes relating the classification, the quality control agencies must inform the enterprises on paper so that the enterprises shall publicize on websites of the quality control agencies.

Chapter III

PROVISIONS ON RECALLING TECHNICALLY DEFECTIVE PRODUCTS

Article 15. Products that must be recalled

1. The enterprises must recall technically defective products that they manufactured or assembled when:

a) The products violate the obligatory regulations, technical standards and regulations apply to the respective products;

b) The products endanger lives and property due to technical defects in design and manufacture.

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2. For products whose technical defects are not specified above, the manufacturing facilities must actively rectify the products' defects.

Article 16. Recalling products

1. Recall by manufacturers

If the distributed products whose technical defects require them to be recalled, the enterprises must actively:

a) cease the factory release of the products in the defective type;

b) inform the sale agencies to cease the distribution of technically defective products on paper within 05 working days from the day on which the defects are found;

c) send to the quality control agencies the reports on the cause of the technical defects, rectifying measures, number of products need to be recalled and appropriate plans to recall within 14 days from the day on which the defective products is found to be subjected to recall;

d) publicize the plans to recall on mass media;

dd) send to the quality control the reports on the results of recalling within 30 days after the recall ends;

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2. Recall at the request of the quality control agencies

Upon discovering the products that the enterprises have distributed are technically defective and have to be recalled, the quality control agencies shall rely on the current regulations, technical standards and regulations, information and investigation results (can be presented to the specialists to assess the risk levels of the defective products if necessary) to consider and:

a) request the manufacturing facilities to suspend the release of technically defective product type and inform the quality control agencies about information relating to technically defective products that have to be recalled;

b) request the manufacturing facilities to recall the products as specified in Clause 1 of this Article based on the levels of risk and emergency of the technically defective products.

Chapter IV

RESPONSIBILITIES OF RELEVANT AGENCIES AND ORGANIZATIONS

Article 17. Responsibilities of quality control agencies

1. Implement the provisions of this Circular.

2. Unify the publishing and management of the use of Certificate and Release record template.

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4. Issue the templates for monthly, quarterly release record for product types of the manufacturing facilities.

5. Request experts to assess the defect risk levels of the technically defective products to make necessary and timely decisions.

6. Inform the police authorities upon receiving the report about the loss of Release record of the manufacturing facilities; inform the customs authorities of the import provinces when there are reasonable grounds to believe that the domestically manufactured or assembled automobiles using knock-down kits whose chassis or engine numbers stamped overseas are erased, punched, altered or restamped.

7. Collect fees and charges as per law.

Article 18. Responsibilities of testing facilities

1. The testing facilities are responsible for the testing of technical safety of automobiles and automotive components, automobile exhaust or engine according to the current regulations at the request of the manufacturing, import facilities; responsible for the results of the conducted testing and examination. The testing facilities will not be responsible for the damage of the sample during the test due to force majeure events as per law.

2. Implement and instruct the manufacturing, import facilities to prepare documents and representative samples to test as per law.

3. Collect testing and examination fees and charges as per law.

4. Archive the results and documents relating the test for at least 03 years from the date on which the reports on test results are submitted.

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1. Be legally responsible for the legality, truthfulness and accuracy of testified information and submitted documents; comply with regulations and decisions to test of regulatory authorities.

2. Be responsible for the origins of the products and components used for automobile manufacturing processes and assembly; archive information relating products and components to trace their origins and recall the products.

3. Be legally responsible for violation relating intellectual property rights.

4. If the online operational accidents occur to the online registration system, the designing, manufacturing or import facilities must inform the quality control agencies to collaborate and tackle the situation.

5. Maintain the quality control system to ensure the product quality as specified in Article 8 of this Circular.

6. Archive the counterfoils of the Release record, certificate for type approval registration for at least 03 years from the date of product release. Upon dispose this documents, the manufacturing facilities must ensure the traceability of information to assist the product recall.

7. Manage, use the templates of release record in accordance with regulations and law, and send the data of released automobiles (numbers of the Certificate, chassis numbers, engine numbers, numbers of the Release record, and date of release) to the quality control agencies within the next 05 working days after utilizing the templates. If the Release record is lost, the manufacturing facilities must notify the quality control agencies and will only be issued a substituting Release record after 30 days from the date of giving notifications.

8. The components manufacturing, import facilities are responsible for recalling technically defective products as specified in this Circular; inform the agencies, service stations and customers the necessary information relating the recall; fully report the information relating the defects of the technically defective products to the quality control agencies, provide necessary information relating the products, the results and progress of product recall at request.

9. Archive the certificate for type approval registration, documents relating the product quality assurance for a minimum of 05 years from the date of ceasing the production or import of product type.

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11. Be responsible for paying fees and charges relating the design appraisal, testing, examination or verification of technically defective products as per law.

Chapter V

ENTRY INTO FORCE AND IMPLEMENTATION

Article 20. Entry into force

1. This Circular comes into force from August 25, 2019.

2. For domestically manufactured and assembled automobiles that are not mentioned in the scope of this Circular, conduct technical safety and environmental safety quality inspection as specified in Circular No. 30/2011/TT-BGTVT dated April 15, 2011 of the Minister of Transport on the technical safety and environmental safety quality inspection in motor vehicle manufacturing processes and assembly and Circular No. 54/2014/TT-BGTVT date October 20, 2014 of the Minister of Transport on amendments to a number of Articles of Circular No. 30/2011/TT-BGTVT dated April 15, 2011 of the Minister of Transport on the technical safety and environmental safety quality inspection in motor vehicle manufacturing processes and assembly.

3. When the national technical standards and regulations relating verified product type are changed, the manufacturing facilities are still allowed to manufacture, assemble, release and import until the Certificate expires.

4. If the legislative documents extracted in this Circular are approved for amendments or superseded by other legislative document, the new documents will apply.

Article 21. Transition clauses

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2. The Release record issued for automobiles before this Circular comes into force and the Release record issued for automobiles as specified in Clause 1 of this Article are still valid for registration.

Article 22. Implementation

The Chief of the Ministry Office, the ministerial Chief Inspectors, the directors, the directors of the Vietnam Register, heads of agencies, relevant organizations and individuals are responsible for the implementation of this Circular./.

PP. Minister
Deputy minister




Le Dinh Tho