G/IT/SPEC/Q4/37  
 
1 June 2023 
(23-3740) Page: 1/2 
Committee of Participants on the Expansion of Trade in 
Information Technology Products  Original: English  
 
SURVEY ON EMC/EMI  
REPLIES TO THE SURVEY  
Communication from Viet Nam  
The following communication, dated 24 May 2023, is being circulated at the request of the delegation 
of Viet Nam . 
 
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1. (a) Does your Government have mandatory technical requirements for 
electromagnetic interference of Information Technology equipment? If so, 
please identify.  
 
Yes. Viet Nam has the National technical regulation (QCVN) to regulate EMC  aspects of 
some IT  equipment, specifically, the QCVN  118:2018/BTTTT "National technical 
regulation on Electromagnetic compatibility of multimedia equipment – Emission 
requirements " for desktop computers, laptops and portable computers, and tablets. This 
National technical regulation is based on CISPR  32:2015  RLV and 
CISPR  32:2015/COR1:2016.  
 
 (b) Are these requirements harmonized with CISPR  22? If not, please explain the 
current requirements.  
 
No. CISPR  22:2008 has been withdrawn and replaced by CISPR  32:2015. These 
requirements (specified in QCVN  118:2018/BTTTT, which are based on 
CISPR  32:2015  RLV and CISPR  32:2015/COR1:2016) are the newer version of 
CISPR  22. 
 
2. (a) Does your Government have mandatory technical requirements for 
electromagnetic immunity of Information Technology equipment? If so, please 
identify.  
 
 No. 
 
 (b) Are these requirements harmonized with CISPR  24? If not, please explain the 
current requirements.  
 
Information Technology equipment do not have to conform to any mandatory technical 
requirements for immunity.  
 
3. (a) What conformity assessment procedure for electromagnetic compatibility 
(EMC/EMI), which includes both interference and immunity, does your 
Government require for approval of information technology products?  
 
The National technical regulation QCVN  118:2018/BTTTT requires conformity testing 
and conformity declaration, according to Supplier's Declaration of Conformity (SDoC) 
type 1 – the supplier or manufacturer of the equipment declares the equipment meets G/IT/SPEC/Q4/37  
 
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  the technical and administrative requirement.  A testing laboratory recognized by the 
regulator tests the equipment and the supplier registers this equipment with the 
regulator (category  (c) mentioned in G/IT/W/17/Rev.29).  
 
The Government does not require approval of IT  products.  
 
 (b) May suppliers p erform these procedures (e.g.  testing, declaration of 
conformity), or must third  parties perform these procedures?  
 
 Suppliers may perform these procedures (testing, declaration of conformity).  
 
 (c) What international guidelines or standards, if any, are those procedures based 
on? If not, what guidelines or standards are they based on?  
 
 These procedures are based on ISO/IEC  17050, with some modifications and 
 requirements to be in line with the legislation framework of goods and products quality 
 control of Viet Nam.  
 
4.  Has your regulatory authority received any complaint or had any problems 
regarding the EMC/EMI  aspects of the approved information technology 
products? If yes, how frequent? And please identify the nature of the 
complaint/problem.  
 
No. 
 
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