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VietnamProposed measure, open for comments

Medicines and vaccines, packaging – Vietnam

Official title

Draft Decree amending and supplementing a number of articles of Government Decree No. 163/2025/ND-CP dated 29 June 2025 detailing a number of articles and prescribing measures for organizing and guiding the implementation of the Law on Pharmacy

Vietnam notified this proposed TBT measure to the WTO on 30 October 2026. Comments are open until 29 December 2026.

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At a glance

Products

Drugs, medicinal raw materials, and packaging materials in direct contact with drugs

Notifying member
Vietnam(Viet Nam)
Status
Proposed measure, open for comments
Objectives
  • Protection of human health or safety
  • Reducing trade barriers and facilitating trade
Area
TBT: Technical product rulesTechnical barriers to trade
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/TBT/N/VNM/461
Keywords
Human health

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Open until 29 December 2026
Proposed adoption
The dossier for the draft Decree is expected to be submitted to the Government in December 2026.
Proposed entry into force
- The provisions of Clauses 3 and 6 of Article 25 are expected to enter into force on the date the Decree is signed and promulgated. - Articles 17, 18 and 19 of the Decree are expected to enter into f

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 29 December 2026, quoting the document symbol G/TBT/N/VNM/461 and how the measure affects your products. Your enquiry point forwards them to Vietnam.

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What the notification says

The draft Decree contains the following provisions: 6.1. Amendments to reduce and simplify administrative procedures: - Implementation of the plan to reduce and simplify administrative procedures relating to production and business activities under Resolution No. 66.16/2026/NQ-CP. - Implementation of the plan to reduce and simplify administrative procedures based on data under Resolution No. 66.7/NQ-CP. 6.2. Guidance on the amendments and additions to the Law on Pharmacy proposed in the draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Children, the Law on Persons with Disabilities, the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment, the Law on Pharmacy, the Law on the Elderly and the Law on Health Insurance, to align the entry into force of the Decree with that of the amending Law: - Implementation of the plan to decentralize the administrative procedure for issuing Certificates of Confirmation of Drug Advertising Content by authorizing provincial-level People's Committees to process applications and issue these certificates, which would be valid nationwide. - Amendments and additions to provisions on the publication and republication of proposed wholesale drug prices in Articles 114, 119 and 130, and addition of Article 115a on the procedures for receiving submissions for such publication and republication; provisions specifying which drugs may have their proposed wholesale prices published after the first batch has been sold on the market; procedures for…

Sources

Expodite writes its summary from the official record. The notification and the documents it notifies are on the WTO's own websites.

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