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Draft QCVN 03:2026/BCA – National technical regulation

Official title

Draft QCVN 03:2026/BCA – National technical regulation on Fire protection and Rescue equipment

Vietnam notified this proposed TBT measure to the WTO on 24 September 2026. Comments are open until 23 November 2026.

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Products

Fire prevention, firefighting and rescue equipment, including: Fire pumps (HS 8413.19.10; 8413.19.20) Common firefighting equipment: delivery hoses, portable/wheeled fire extinguishers, self-activating extinguishers (HS 5909.00.10; 8424.10.90) Fire extinguishing media: dry powder, CO₂, foam concentr

HS codes
  • 38 · Chemical products n.e.c.
    • 381300 Preparations and charges for fire-extinguishers; charged fire-extinguishing grenades (excl. full or empty fire-extinguishing devices, whether or not portable…
  • 59 · Textile fabrics; impregnated, coated, covered or laminated; textile articles of a kind suitable for industrial use
    • 590900 Textile hosepiping and similar textile tubing, whether or not impregnated or coated, with or without lining, armour or accessories of other materials
  • 84 · Machinery and mechanical appliances, boilers, nuclear reactors; parts thereof
    • 841319 Pumps for liquids, fitted or designed to be fitted with a measuring device (excl. pumps for dispensing fuel or lubricants, of the type used in filling…
    • 842410 Fire extinguishers, whether or not charged
    • 842490 Parts of fire extinguishers, spray guns and similar appliances, steam or sand blasting machines and similar jet projecting machines and machinery and…
    • 848140 Safety or relief valves
All 13 codes
  • 85 · Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers; television image and sound recorders and reproducers, parts and accessories of such articles
    • 853110 Burglar or fire alarms and similar apparatus
    • 853190 Parts of electric sound or visual signalling apparatus, n.e.s.
    • 853710 Boards, cabinets and similar combinations of apparatus for electric control or the distribution of electricity, for a voltage <= 1.000 V
  • 94 · Furniture; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings; lamps and lighting fittings, n.e.c.; illuminated signs, illuminated name-plates and the like; prefabricated buildings
    • 940511 Chandeliers and other electric ceiling or wall lighting fittings, solely for light-emitting diode 'LED' light sources (excl. for lighting public open spaces…
    • 940519 Chandeliers and other electric ceiling or wall lighting fittings (excl. for lighting public open spaces or thoroughfares and those solely for light-emitting…
    • 940561 Illuminated signs, illuminated nameplates and the like, with a permanently fixed light-emitting diode 'LED' light source
    • 940569 Illuminated signs, illuminated nameplates and the like, with a permanently fixed light source other than LED
Notifying member
Vietnam(Viet Nam)
Status
Proposed measure, open for comments
Objectives
  • Protection of human health or safety
Area
TBT: Technical product rulesTechnical barriers to trade
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/TBT/N/VNM/448

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Open until 23 November 2026
Proposed adoption
To be determined
Proposed entry into force
To be determined

How to comment

Comments on a notification go from government to government. If this measure affects your exports, send your comments to your country's WTO TBT enquiry point before 23 November 2026, quoting the document symbol G/TBT/N/VNM/448 and how the measure affects your products. Your enquiry point forwards them to Vietnam.

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What the notification says

This draft national technical regulation specifies mandatory technical requirements, test methods and sample specifications for fire prevention, firefighting and rescue equipment. The draft applies to equipment manufactured, assembled, imported, traded and used in Viet Nam (Section 1.1) — unlike the previously notified draft (G/TBT/N/VNM/400), imported equipment is now within the mandatory scope of this regulation. The draft sets out a conformity assessment mechanism — certification of conformity, declaration of conformity, and post-market surveillance — for equipment classified as medium- or high-risk under the list issued by the Ministry of Public Security, replacing the circulation permit mechanism under the previously notified draft. It further sets out requirements on sampling, testing, labelling and traceability. This draft applies to: (1) organizations and individuals manufacturing, assembling, importing, trading in and using the equipment; (2) conformity assessment bodies; (3) competent state management authorities. The first draft of QCVN 03:2026/BCA was notified under G/TBT/N/VNM/400 (23 April 2026). This notification concerns the second draft, which has been substantially revised — reducing the equipment covered from 85 types/865 technical criteria to 57 types/483 technical criteria, and replacing the circulation-permit management mechanism with conformity assessment, information declaration and post-market surveillance.

Sources

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