1. This Decree deals with information on good labels, presentation thereof, and state management of labels of goods circulated in Vietnam and imported goods.

2. The following goods shall not be regulated by this Decree:

a) Real property;

b) Goods temporarily imported for re-export; goods temporarily imported for re-export after participation in fairs or exhibitions; goods in transit, goods involved in merchanting trade transactions; transshipped goods;

c) Gifts, presents; baggage of incoming/outgoing passengers; personal belongings;

d) Confiscated goods for auction purpose;

dd) Goods being fresh, raw food, processed food without packaging and sold directly to consumers;

e) Commodities being fuel, materials (agricultural products, aquatic products, minerals), construction materials (bricks, tiles, lime, sand, stone, gravel, cement, color soil, mortar, commercial mixed concrete), scrap (in production and business) without packaging and sold directly to consumers;

g) Commodities being petrol and oil, gas (LPG, CNG, LNG), liquid, bulk cement without commercial packaging in containers, tankers;

h) Used goods;

i) Exported goods without domestic use;

k) Goods in the area of security and national defense; goods being radioactive substances, goods to be used for emergencies so as to solve problems of natural disaster, epidemic diseases; railway, waterway, airway vehicles.

This Decree applies to manufacturers and traders of goods in Vietnam; importers of goods; regulatory authorities; relevant organizations and individuals.

Location

1. The label shall be put on the good or commercial container in such a place that is easily visible, containing required information without being disassembled.

2. If it is inadmissible or impossible to open the primary container, it must have a label containing mandatory information.

Size of labels, words and numbers on labels

An entity responsible for labeling shall self-identify the size of labels or words and numbers on labels providing that the following requirements are satisfied:

1. Sufficient mandatory information is available as prescribed in Clause 1 Article 10 hereof;

2. The size of words and numbers in the size that are considered easily visible to the naked eye and meet the following requirements:

a) The size of words and number expressing quantity shall comply with regulations of law on measurement;

b) If the good is prepackaged food, food additive, or food processing aid, the height of words expressing mandatory label content shall not be lower than 1.2 mm. If one surface area of the container reserved for labeling (excluding the lap at the margin) is less than 80cm², the height of words shall not be lower than 0.9mm.

Colors of words, symbols, and pictures on labels

Color of any word, number, drawing, picture, sign, or symbol on a label must be clear. In case of mandatory information, the color of words or numbers and color of background shall ensure the adequate contrast.

Language

1. Mandatory information on the label must be written in Vietnamese, except for the cases prescribed in Clause 4 hereof.

2. In case of goods to be produced and circulated domestically, apart from the required language in Clause of this Article, another language is also allowed on their labels. The translations must convey the same meanings in Vietnamese. The font size of words in the other language may not be bigger than that font of words in Vietnamese.

3. If the good imported into Vietnam of which the label has not represented or represented insufficiently mandatory information in Vietnamese, a supplementary label containing mandatory information in Vietnamese is required and the original label shall remain unchanged. The Vietnamese content shall be consistent with the original label text.

4. The following information is allowed to be written in other languages with Latin letter root:

a) International or botanical name of a drug for human use in case of absence from Vietnamese name;

b) International or botanical name enclosed with formula, structural formula of the chemical, active ingredients, excipients, ingredient of the drug;

c) International or botanical name of ingredient or ingredient quantity of good if such name is impossible to be translated or possible to be translated but it does not make sense;

d) Name and address of the foreign enterprise relating to the manufacture of the commodity.