Vietnam MIC(Ministry of Information and Communications) has released Circular 05/2019/TT-BTTTT dated 09 July 2019 to replace Circular 04/2018/TT-BTTTT – New list of product under MIC Type Approval and DoC. Circular 05/2019/TT-BTTTT shall enter in force since Sept 1st, 2019.
Impact:
All the Type Approval certificates (and test report) which have been granted for below-listed products shall be invalid and need to be renewed with new technical regulations from 01 Sept 2019:
(1) Mobile phone, tablet, laptop having a 4G LTE connection
(2) Other LTE terminal devices (gateway, router…)
(3) W-CDMA FDD repeater
(4) W-CDMA FDD base station
(5) Marine EPIRB beacon
(6) Walkie-Talkie with integrated antenna for speech
(7) Walkie-Talkie with integrated antenna for speech and text message
Key comments:
1. Type Approval certificate and ADoC granted based on expired or expiring National Technical Regulation (QCVN) and National Technical Standards (TCVN) shall be invalid from 01 September 2019 and need to be renewed with new standards. It means the test report needs to be renewed with new standards accordingly.
2. QCVN 117:2017/BTTTT – New RF standard for LTE shall be implemented for TA and DoC since 01 September 2019
3. Server, Router, Gateway, Firewall (without wireless connection) has been removed from the list of product under MIC regulatory approval. This is applicable since 01 September 2019.
4. MIC lists applicable HS code and product description of products under MIC regulatory scope for easier import control implementation. If the product description match, it will be under MIC regulatory approval scope. However, MIC does not confirm about HS code, it means if the product having different HS code but having the same product description, it will still under MIC regulatory approval scope
5. Remove requirement on DVB-T of QCVN 63:2013/BTTTT and remove the requirement on transportation (UN 38.3) of QCVN 101:2016/BTTTT in comparison to existing requirements.
Remark:
New EMC standard QCVN 118:2018/BTTTT has been implemented on July 1st, 2019 and has replaced TCVN 7189:2009 for ITE and MME