The Vietnam Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) has recently published a Draft Circular regulating products which are mandatory for Type Approval Certification and Declaration of Conformity. This new draft is supposed to replace Circulars 01/2021/TT-BTTTT and 11/2020/TT-BTTTT.

Below are the main points:

1. Several standards are updated in the new draft circular:

• QCVN 128:2021/BTTTT (RF standard for 5G base station);

• QCVN 127:2021/BTTTT (RF standard for 5G SA – mandatory from 2022-07-01);

• QCVN 129:2021/BTTTT (RF standard for 5G NSA – mandatory from 2022-07-01);

• QCVN 124:2021/BTTTT (RF standard for Vehicle Radar 76-77GHz – mandatory from      2022-07-01);

• QCVN 123:2021/BTTTT (RF standard for SRD 40-246GHz) – mandatory from      2022-07-01);

• QCVN 65:2021/BTTTT (RF standard for WLAN 5.0GHz device – can be applied from      2022-05-01 and be mandatory from 2023-07-01)

• QCVN 22:2021/BTTTT (Safety standard for ICT product – importers are to comply      with this standard themselves as the standard is not mandatory according      to Annexes No. 1 and 2 of the Draft Circular).

2. Below deviceswill be removed from the mandatory list:

• 5.8 GHz equipment which is used for transport application;

• Marine VHF devices;

• Inmarsat F77 devices;

• Section “Other devices”.

3. A few products are moved from Annex No. 1 (compulsory for TA Certification and Declaration of Conformity) to Annex No. 2 (compulsory for Declaration of Conformity):

1) 76-77 GHz vehicle radars;

2) General SRDs operating in the following bands:

• 13,553-13,567MHz;

• 26,957-27,283MHz;

• 40,66-40,7MHz;

• 5725-5850MHz;

• 24,00-24,25GHz;

• 61,0-61,5GHz;

• 122-123GHz;

• 244-246GHz;

• 13.56MHzRFID;

• Some of land mobile radio equipment.

Please be informed that the Draft Circular may take effect on July 1, 2022 and local laboratories will be able to test products in accordance with new standards from May or June, 2022.

As soon as the Circular has been officially issued, MIC will also provide instructions for the Type Approval Certification and Declaration of Conformity for the case when local laboratories cannot perform tests in compliance with the standards.

Source:

http://mic.gov.vn/Pages/DuThaoVanBan/XemYKienDongGop.aspx?iDDTVB_DuThaoVanBan=2104&replyUrl=/pages/duthaovanban/danhsachduthaovanban.aspx

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