G/TBT/N/VNM/281  
5 January 2024  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  VIET NAM  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Ministry of Transport  
80 Tran Hung Dao  
Hoan Kiem  
Ha Noi  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different fr om above:   
Notification Authority & Enquiry Point of the Ministry of Transport  
Viet Nam Register  
18 Pham Hung, My Dinh 2, Nam Tu Liem, Ha Noi, Viet Nam  
Tel.: 04.3768 4838  
Fax: 04.3768 4840  
E-mail: tbtgtvt@vr.org.vn  
Website: http://www.tbt -bgtvt.vn/  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [  ], 5.7.1 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Inland 
waterway ships  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  The Draft 
national technical regulations on rules for classification and construction of inland 
waterway ships; (852 page(s), in Vietnamese)  
6. Description of content:  This draft regulation stipulates requirements for  classification 
and inspection in the design, construction, conversion, repair, import and operation of 
inland waterway ships (hereinafter referred to as ships), whose length L is 140 meters or 
below, operating on rivers, canals, lakes, lagoons, bays and a nnounced coastal inland 
waterway transport routes of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.  
This draft technical regulation applies to organizations and individuals whose activities 
are related to ships within the scope of regulation mentioned in 1.1.1, includ ing: Vietnam 
Register (hereinafter referred to as "Register"); ship owners; establishments designing 
manufacturing, converting, repairing and operating ships; establishments designing and 
manufacturing products and materials installed on ships; and organiz ations and 
individuals importing and exporting ships and products and materials installed on ships.  G/TBT/N/VNM/281  
 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
Law on Inland Waterway Traffic dated June 15, 2004;  
Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Inland Waterway 
Transport dated June 17, 2014;  
Law on Standards and Technical Regulations No. 68/2006/QH11 dated July 29, 2006  
Decree No. 111/2014/ND -CP dated November 20, 2014 of the Government regulating the 
lifespan of domestic and imported waterway ships;  
Circular No. 48/2015/TT -BGTVT on registration of domestic waterway ships;  
ISO 12215 -5: 2008: Hull construction and scantlings Part 5: Design pressur es for mono -
hull, design stresses, scantlings determination.  
ISO 12215 -7: 2008: Hull construction and scantlings Part 7 Identifying the load capacity 
of multihull vessels and the dimensions of connecting components referring to standards 
ISO 12215 -5. 
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  45 days after adoption  
10. Final date for comments:  30 days from notification  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
Please contact:  
Notification Authority & Enquiry Point of the Ministry of Transport  
Viet Nam Register  
18 Pham Hung, My Dinh 2, Nam Tu Liem, Ha Noi, Viet Nam  
Tel.: 04.3768 4838  
Fax: 04.3768 4840  
E-mail: tbtgtvt@vr.org.vn  
Website: http://www.tbt -bgtvt.vn/