Standards and Conformity Assessment in Viet Nam

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Standards and Conformity Assessment in Viet Nam
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Introduction

• Directorate for Standards and Quality (STAMEQ)
• was established in 1984
• is the Government Agency under the Ministry of
  Science, Technology and Environment
• having responsibility to advise the Government on
  issues in the fields of standardization,
  metrology and quality management in the country
• representing Viet Nam in international and
  regional organizations in the fields concerned.

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STAMEQs main activities

• To prepare the Rules and Regulations on
  Standardization, Metrology and Quality Control
  and summit them to the authorities for approval
• To establish the organization system on
  standardization, metrology and quality control
  and provide methodological guidance for all
  activities of the above system
• To organize the formulation of national standards
  and maintain the national metrology standards

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STAMEQs main activities

• To provide the quality system certification and
  product certification, testing and calibration
  laboratory accreditation
• To implement the State supervision on quality of
  goods and measurement
• To conduct studies on Standardization, metrology
  and quality control
• To carry out the activities of information,
  training on standardization, metrology and
  quality control.

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Organizational Structure

• STAMEQ consists of 16 independent units with
  total staff of 700.
• STAMEQ also supervises activities of the 61
  provincial, city departments of standardization,
  metrology and quality control which staff up 1,000

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Organizational Structure
61 Provincial Branches
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Standardization

• Before 1990, standards were normally prepared by
  the ministries, research institutions and some
  state owned enterprises.
• Since 1991, this job has been taken over by the
  Technical Committee (TCs) as guided by ISO.
• Up to now, 79 TCs have been formed with the
  participation of over 600 members who represent
  the research institutions, management bodies,
  businesses, consumers and national standards
  body.

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Standardization (cont.)

• Up to now, total number of national standards is
  4885
• The percentage of national standards aligned with
  international standards is 27.4

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Flowchart forTCVN (National Standards)
development
Preparation Process
Organizations Proposing
Drafting Process
TCs
VSI
Approval Process
STAMEQ
MOSTE
Publication
VSI
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Current Approaches to Standards

• We continue to align our national standards with
  international standards. Alignment work is being
  undertaken consistent with the APEC Guide for the
  alignment of standards with international ones.
• We adopt international standards where possible
  and used them as the basic for any national
  standards, in line with the WTO/ TBT Agreement

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Product Certification

• There are two kind of product certification
  scheme are operated
• Mandatory Certification applied for those
  products regarding safety.
• Voluntary Certification applied for others.
  Accreditation shall be by a Guide 58
  Accreditation body
• Since May 1998, First party product
  certification scheme was launched through issuing
  regulation and procedure for enterprises to
  declare themselves their products in conformance
  with National Standards

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Procedure formandatory product certification
Sample testing
Quality system assessment
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Procedure forVoluntary Product Certification
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Product certification (cont.)

• Up to now
• More than 500 companied in Viet Nam were
  certified by Local (QUACERT) and Foreign
  Certification Bodies to ISO 9000 and 15 others
  certified to ISO 14000
• ISO 900 Quality Management System in Civil
  Service is widely introducing .
• Many training courses on ISO 9000 and ISO 14000,
  GMP, HACCP, Product Certification, TQM ect. are
  conducted nationwide

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Accreditation

• Viet Nam Laboratory Accreditation Scheme (VILAS)
  was established 1995
• VILAS adopts the international criteria set by
  ISO/ IEC Guide 25 and now ISO 17025 as
  accreditation criteria.
• Is a voluntary accreditation scheme and open to
  any testing and calibration laboratory falling
  within the scope of the scheme and meeting its
  requirements

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Accreditation (cont.)

• VILAS became a signatory of ILAC and APLAC MRA
  since October 2000.
• Up to now, there are 88 laboratories have been
  accredited by VILAS.

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Accreditation Procedure
Initial contact
Reassessment after 2 years
Labs preparation for questionnaire
Annual Labs surveillance
Advisory visit (if necessary)
Granting accreditation
Submit Labs Application Form
Reporting the assessment results and reviewing
corrective actions
If not
If not
On- site assessment
Reviewing the labs documents
Formulation of Assessment Team
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International Cooperation

• STAMEQ is member of 15 International or regional
  organizations
• Full member at 13 organizations such as ISO,
  PASC, APLAC, ILAC, APMP, APLMF, EAN, APQO...
• Associate member at OILM
• Subscriber of IEC

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STAMEQ WEBSITE

• For further information, please visit our website
  at
• http//www.tcvn.gov.vn

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• THANH YOU!