Amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Government's Decree No.79/2006/NĐ-CP dated August 09th 2006 detailing the implementation of a number of articles of the Law on Pharmacy as follows:

1. Clause 2 Article 14 is amended as follows:

“Article 14. The pharmaceutical practice certificate

2. Each individual is only issued with one pharmaceutical practice certificate and  only allowed to manage one form of business at a location of medicine trading.”

2. Article 16 is amended and supplemented as follows:

“Article 16. The dossier of application for the issuance or reissuance of the pharmaceutical practice certificate

1. The dossier of application for the issuance or reissuance of the pharmaceutical practice certificate is made in one set.

2. A dossier of application for the issuance or reissuance of the pharmaceutical practice certificate, applicable to Vietnamese citizens, comprises:

a) The application for the pharmaceutical practice certificate made under the form provided the Ministry of Health;

b) The authenticated copies of professional qualifications;

c) The certificate of the internship in a legal pharmaceutical establishment made and issued by its leader under the form provided by the Ministry of Health, except for the bachelors of pharmacy graduated from a transferring program that registered for opening drug stores;

d) The authenticated copy of the ID card if the dossier is sent by post, or its photocopy and the original presented for comparison if the dossier is submitted directly;

dd) The certificate of health issued by a competent health agency within the previous 12 months;

e) 2 portrait pictures 4 cm x 6 cm taken within the previous 06 months as from the day of submitting the dossier.

3. A dossier of application for the pharmaceutical practice certificate in Vietnam, applicable to foreigners or Vietnamese residing overseas, comprises:

a) The papers prescribed in Point a, b, c, dd and e Clause 2 this Article;

b) The judicial résumé certified by the competent agency of the host country, or the work permit and the written certification of the membership of a the Board of Directors of the medicine-trading establishment;

c) The authenticated copy of the passport if the dossier is sent by post, or its photocopy and the original presented for comparison if the dossier is submitted directly;

The qualifications in pharmacy and other papers prescribed in Point c Clause 2 and Point b Clause 3 this Article issued, certified, or notarized by a foreign organization. Such papers must be consularly legalized and translated into Vietnamese; the Vietnamese translation must be notarized as prescribed by Vietnam’s law.

For further details, Please see a reference translation  at    http://khaiphong.vn/Van-ban-Tieng-Anh/Decree-No.-89/2012/ND-CP-dated-October-24-2012-7075.html