On July 5, 2019, the Ministry of Transport issued Circular 25/2019 / TT-BGTVT regulating the quality of technical safety and environmental protection in automobile assembly and production. The Circular takes effect from August 25, 2019.
Some notable contents in the circular:
– The Circular stipulating production and assembly cars must have a design dossier and be appraised by the Vietnam Register of Quality (QC). Models will be tested typical models. Next, the enterprise must have a dossier of registration of quality of technical safety and environmental protection of products and at the same time ensure product quality in production and assembly.
– The Circular also stipulates the order for granting technical safety and environmental protection certificates; Regulating requirements for enterprises in mass production and assembly process; Reissue Certificate of product type; Suspension of ex-works of product type and revocation of Certificate for product type; Regulations on recalling defective products …
– For regulations on quality assurance of manufactured and assembled products, the Circular stipulates that the quality control agency will perform the assessment of product quality assurance (assessing COP) according to the following methods:
+ For home-made products, the initial evaluation is carried out when issuing the Certificate of technical safety and environmental protection of product types according to the criteria stated in IATF 16949 standard. Quality management system for organizations that produce and service related automotive components.
+ Assessments in subsequent periods are conducted to assess the implementation and maintenance of quality assurance of production facilities. At this assessment, QCA will take a random sample to assess the storage of records, documents related to the product and the suitability of ex-factory products compared to the application file for registration of type-quality certificates. . The time of the next evaluation period for component manufacturing establishments is 36 months. For automobile manufacturing and assembling establishments, the subsequent evaluation period is from 12 to 36 months depending on the group of enterprises classified, determined on the basis of applying risk management in product quality management. manufactured and assembled products.
+ For components imported from a country that has a mutual recognition agreement in the field of motor vehicle quality certification, the mutual recognition agreement is followed.
In addition, Circular 25 also stipulates the regulations for domestic assembling manufacturing enterprises in the process of mass assembly, product recall, …
Circular 25 clearly stipulates the automotive quality inspection process, which is the basis for enterprises to implement, contributing to ensuring the quality of automobiles in the country as well as the environment.