New circular 17/2022/TT-BCT is published

On 27 October 2002, the minister of Ministry of Industry and Trade signed a new circular on amending and supplementing articles of Decree 113 published on 2017 as well as detailing and guiding articles within the Law on Chemical valid from 2008. 

The amendments are as follows: 

• A more detailed description of the roles of Vietnam Chemical Agency 

• Change in Classifying and labeling chemicals: labeling chemicals is conducted according to Decree 43/2017/ND-CP and decree 111/2021/ND-CP with instructions under Annex 8 

• Modification to make this circular coherent with changes made in Decree 82/2022  

• Change the deadline to submit annual chemical report on February 15th every year via National Chemical Database, and the recipients of the report are Vietnam Chemical Agency, local-level Department of Industry and Trade where chemicals are traded or produced 

• Change the deadline for local-level Department of Industry and Trade to report their management procedure to March 1st every year to Vietnam Chemical Agency via National Chemical Database  

• A new Annex 3 listed the forms to be used in the process of appraising and approving chemical incident prevention and response plans 

• A new Annex 5 regarding chemical activity report forms for organizations and individuals, and Ministry of Industry and Trade 

• Legal information that is removed: 

• Clause 1 in article 4 on promulgating the legal certificates and licenses for production and trading; Annex 1 detailing the legal certificates and licenses for production and trading mentioned in this clause 

• Clause 2 in article 4 on promulgating licenses to export and import industrial precursors; Annex 2 detailing the licenses to export and import industrial precursors 

• Clause 1 in article 5 on plan to prevent and respond to chemical accidents mentioned; the whole Annex 6 detailing plan to prevent and respond to chemical accidents 

• Clause 4 in article 6 on Secondary labels on chemicals 

• Clause 1 & 2 in article 8 on the custom clearance processes when import chemicals 

• Article 10 on the responsibility to conduct administrative procedure and the roles of local level Department of Industry and Trade 

• Point b clause 3 in article 11 on provoking the validation of the registration certificates and licenses before Decree 113 comes into effect 

• Part 3 of Annex 7 on the classification criteria for SOL flammable gas 

This decree will come into effect on 22 December 2022, while clause 6 article 1 regarding the annual report process and deadlines in this decree will be valid one year later.