G/TBT/N/VNM/150  
14 August 2019  
(19-5302) Page: 1/2 
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 Labour – Invalids and Social Affairs  
12 Ngo Quyen Str, Hoan Kiem District  
Ha Noi, Viet Nam  
Tel: (84 -4) 62703613; (84 -4) 62730615  
Fax: (84 -4) 62703609  
Website: http://www.molisa.gov.vn  
Name and address (including telephone a nd fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
Department of Work Safety  
12-13th floor, Molisa building, Lane 7, Ton Th at Thuyet Str, Cau Giay District, Ha Noi, 
Viet Nam  
Fax: (84 -24) 39362920  
Tel:(84 -24) 39362953/39366194  
Website: http://www.antoanlaodong.gov.vn  
Email: congmolisa@gm ail.com  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN  where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Lifts. 
Escalators (ICS 91.140.90)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft National 
technical regulation on safety for lifts (43 page(s), in Vietnamese)  
6. Description of content:  This draft technical regulation applies to all types of electric 
elevators (those with machine room or machine room less elevators) and hydraulic 
elevators used to carry people, goods  or carry passengers (hereinafter referred to as 
elevator) operated by frictional, forced or hydraulic drive, serving the specified stop, 
having a cabin designed to carry people or people and goods suspended by cable, chain 
or raised by jack and movement b etween guide rails with vertical tilt angle does not 
exceed 15o. 
For elevators used in special cases (elevators used for people with disabilities, fire cases, 
environmental risks of fire, extreme weather conditions, seismic conditions, 
transportation Dange rous goods ...), in addition to meeting the requirements of this 
regulation, elevators must also ensure specialized legal regulations issued by the 
competent authority.  
This standard does not apply to elevators which:  G/TBT/N/VNM/150  
 
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  a) Have a rated speed ≤ 0.15 m/s;  
b) Hydraulic ladder with rated speed exceeding 1 m/s;  
c) Hydraulic ladder if adjusting pressure relief valve in excess of 50 MPa;  
d) Lifting equipment, reel type, lift elevator, stage elevator, automatic bucket lifting 
equipment, lifting barrels, lifting machines and hoists for construction sites of public 
buildings and buildings, winches lifting on ships, exploration platforms or offshore 
drilling, construction and maintenance equipment or elevators in wind turbines.  
7. Objective and rationale, i ncluding the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of human health or safety  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. TCVN 6396 -20: 2017 (EN  81-20: 2014) Safety requirements on elevator 
construction and installation - Elevators for transporting people and goods – 
Part 20: Passenger elevators and elevators carrying people and goods  
2. TCVN 6396 -50: 2017 (EN 81 -50: 2014) Safety requirements on stru cture and lift 
installation - Testing and testing - Part 50: Requirements on design, calculation, 
inspection and testing Test elevator parts  
3. Circular No. 28/2012/TT -BKHCN dated 12/12/2012 of the Ministry of Science and 
Technology regulating the announcemen t of standard conformity, announcement 
of conformity and method of conformity assessment with standards and technical 
regulation  
4. Circular No. 02/2017/TT -BKHCN  of the Ministry of Science and Technology: 
Amending and supplementing a number of articles of Circular No. 
28/2012/TT -BKHCN of December 12, 2012 of the Minister of Science and 
Technology prescribes the announcement of standard conformity, announcement 
of conformity and method of assessment of conformity with technical standards 
and regulations  
5. Circular No. 26/2018 / TT -BLĐTBXH dated December 15, 2018 of the Ministry of 
Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs stipulating the quality management of products 
and go ods which are likely to cause unsafety under the responsibility of 
management State of the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  December 2019  
Proposed date of entry into force:  May 2020  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
Department of Work Safety  
12-13th floor, Molisa building, Lane 7, Ton That Thuyet Str, Cau Giay District, Ha Noi, 
Viet Nam  
Fax: (84 -24) 39362920  
Tel:(84 -24) 39362953/39366194  
Website: http://www.antoanlaodong.gov.vn  
Email: congmolisa@gmail.com  
Or can be downloaded at:  
http://tbt.gov.vn/To%20Link%20lin%20kt/QCVN%20AN%20TOAN%20THANG%20MAY
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