IMPORT OF CHEMICALS UNDER 10 KG/SHIPMENT DOES NOT NEED DECLARATION
In accordance with the Decree No. 113/2017/ND-CP specifying and providing guidelines for implementation of a number articles of the Law on Chemicals. The list of 1156 chemicals need to be declared prescribed at the Appendix No. 05 of the Decree.
However, chemicals produced or imported for the purposes of national security and response to natural disasters and epidemics; chemicals that are precursor chemicals of narcotics, precursor chemicals of explosives, industrial explosives and chemicals on the chemical table licensed to produce or import; the amount of chemicals is under 10 kg/shipment. Exemption shall not apply to restricted industrial chemicals. Chemicals that are raw materials for medicine production issued with certificates of registration for sale of medicines in Vietnam, raw materials for the medicine production that are pharmaceutical substances for production under medicine registration applications which have been granted certificates of registration for sale of medicines in Vietnam. Chemicals that are raw materials for pesticide production with certificates of pesticide registration in Vietnam.
Also in accordance with this Decree, entities having chemical-related activities shall provide training courses in chemical safety or appoint the individuals herein to participate in training courses organized by chemical safety training centers every 2 years. Chemical safety training activities may be organized separately or in combination with other safety training activities regulated by law. Trained persons must be retrained in if there is a change in the categories of chemicals, technologies, facilities and production plans related to their working positions; if they change their working positions; they fail to meet the training requirements after taking the 2nd examination; 2 years after the previous training course.
This Decree is issued on October 09, 2017; takes effect on November 25, 2017.
