. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/VNM/21 
21 September 2012  
 (12-5098) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Notifying Member:  VIET NAM  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:   
Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism 
51, Ngo Quyen, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi   
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 from above :   
Division of Technology Development Management 
The Science, Technology and Environment Department Tel.:  +84 4 39434190 
Fax:  +84 4 39448755 
Email:  lephambangtam@yahoo.com.vn  
Website:  http://www.tbt-mocst.vn  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [   ], 2.10.1 [X], 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):  Cinemas 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft of National 
Technical Regulation for Cinemas (25 pages, in Vietnamese). 
6. Description of content:  This Technical Regulations sets up the requirements for designing, 
building or renovating cinemas using 35m size wi dth film, digital projectors, HD screen, fake 
screen width and screen of all genres  and format sound, different images.   
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human health and standards harmonization.  
8. Relevant documents:    
- QCVN 05 : 2008/BXD - Vietnamese Constr uction Standards - Housing and public-
health and life safety; 
- ISO 3382:1997 Acoustics - Measurement of the reverberation time of rooms with 
reference to other ac oustical parameters; 
- DIN 18041:2004-05: Acoustic quality in  small to medium-sized rooms; G/TBT/N/VNM/21 
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  - DIN 4109 Sound isolation in buildings 1990; 
- ISO 717 Acoustical - Rating of sound isola tion in building and of building elements 
1996; 
- ISO 140 Acoustical - Measurement of s ound isolation in building and of building 
elements; 
- ISO 354:2003 Acoustic - Measurement of s ound absorption in a reverberation room 
in 2003; 
- ISO 11654 Acoustics - Sound absorbers for use in buildings – Rating of sound 
absorption 1997; 
- ISO 9052 Acoustics - Determinati on of dynamic stiffness; 1992; 
- ISO 9053 Acoustics - Materials fo r acoustical application, 1993; 
- ISO 1996 Acoustics - Description, measur ement and assessment of environmental 
noise 2003. 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    To be determined 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days after circulation by the WTO Secretariat 
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addres ses, if available of the other body:    
Vietnam WTO/TBT Notification Authority and Enquiry Point 
8 Hoang Quoc Viet Street Cau Giay District Ha Noi Viet Nam  
Tel.:  (84-4) 37911599 
Fax:  (84-4) 37913441 E-mail: tbtvn@tbtvn.org  
Website:  http://www.tbtvn.org  
The full text of the draft is available on: 
http://www.tbtvn.org/Ti%20liu%20upload%20cho%20QCKT/1.2.doc