This Law applies to organizations and individuals producing or trading in products or goods and organizations and individuals conducting activities related to product and goods quality in Vietnam.

Application of laws

1. Production and business activities as well as product and goods quality-related activities must comply with this Law and relevant provisions of law.

2. Production and business activities as well as activities related to the quality of products and goods being construction works, services or used goods not subject to verification; products and goods used exclusively for defense or security and other particular ones must comply with general principles of this Law and be specifically governed by other legal documents.

3. When a treaty to which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a contracting party contains provisions different from those of this Law, the provisions of that treaty prevail.

Principles for product and goods quality control

1. Product and goods quality shall be controlled on the basis of announced applicable standards and relevant technical regulations. Depending on their capability of causing unsafe, products and goods are controlled as follows:

a/ The quality of group-1 products and goods shall be controlled on the basis of applicable standards announced by producers;

b/ The quality of group-2 products and goods shall be controlled on the basis of relevant technical regulations promulgated by competent state management agencies and applicable standards announced by producers.

The Government shall specify the promulgation of a list of group-2 products and goods.

2. Product and goods quality control is the responsibility of producers and traders, aimed to ensure safety for humans, animals, plants, assets and the environment and raise the productivity, quality and competitiveness of Vietnams products and goods.

3. State control of product and goods quality is the responsibility of competent state management agency, aimed to enforce legal provisions on product and goods quality.

Activities of state control of product and goods quality must ensure transparency, objectivity, no discrimination based on goods origin and organizations and individuals involved in product and goods quality-related activities, conformity with international practice, and protection of lawful rights and interests of production and business organizations and individuals as well as consumers.

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