THE
MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No:
102/2001/TT-BNN
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Hanoi, October 26, 2001
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CIRCULAR
GUIDING THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PRIME MINISTER’S DECISION No. 178/1999/QD-TTg OF AUGUST
30, 1999 PROMULGATING THE REGULATION ON, THE LABELING THE GOODS FOR DOMESTIC
CIRCULATION AND EXPORT AS WELL AS IMPORT GOODS, REGARDING COMMODITY FOREST
PRODUCTS, COMMODITIES PROCESSED FROM FOREST PRODUCTS, CEREAL GRAINS AND
ASSORTED FARM PRODUCE SEEDS IN PACKS
In furtherance of the Prime Minister’s
Decision No.178/1999/QD-TTg of August 30, 1999 on the labeling of goods for
domestic circulation and export as well as import goods, regarding specific
goods items of the agriculture and rural development service, the Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development issued on July 17, 2000 guiding Circular
No.75/2000/TT-BNN-KHCN.
To materialize the Prime Minister’s directing opinions in Official Dispatch
No.304/CP-KTQD of April 18, 2001 on the promulgation of documents to guide the
implementation of the goods labeling regulation, the Ministry of Agriculture
and Rural Development hereby guides the labeling of commodity forest products,
commodities processed from forest products, cereal grains and assorted farm
produce seeds in packs.
I. GENERAL PROVISIONS
1. Scope of application:
Commodity forest products, commodities processed
from forest products, cereal grains and assorted farm produce seeds in packs,
which are made in Vietnam for domestic consumption and export, goods imported
for sale on the Vietnamese market (except for those temporarily imported for
re-export or those processed for foreign countries) must all be labeled and the
labeling must be conducted in compliance with the Prime Minister’s Decision
No.178/1999/QD-TTg of August 30, 1999 on the Regulation on labeling of goods
for domestic circulation and export as well as import goods and the Trade
Ministry’s Circular No.34/1999/TT-BTM of December 15, 1999 guiding the
implementation of Decision No.178/1999/QD-TTg as well as this Circular’s
guidance.
2. Goods mentioned in this Circular include:
a/ Commodity forest products and commodities
processed from forest products:
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- Sawn timber of all kinds (in cubes or bars),
thin boards, sliced sheets, barked timber, etc., for export or import;
- Goods being finished products or product
details processed from timber or non-timber forest products (bamboo of various
kinds, rattan, etc.), such as: household wood furniture, builders’ carpentry,
wood articles for exterior and interior decoration, special-use products (for
sport gears, medical instruments, teaching aids, toys), fine-art articles;
- Non-timber forest products, raw or dried,
whether or not processed, put up in packs: trunks, branches, leaves, bases,
roots, tubers, blossoms, fruits, seeds, peels, oils, resins, essences.
b/ Goods being cereal grains and assorted farm
produce seeds, including, rice, maize, wheat, kaoliang, barley, assorted peas
and beans, sesame, etc., unprocessed, in packs and not used as sowing seeds.
3. Labeling methods:
a/ For goods put up in packs, the labeling shall
be made by method of inscribing directly on the packing or printing on sheets,
which shall then be firmly attached, pinned or stuck on the packing;
b/ For unpacked goods, the labeling shall be
made by method of sticking labels directly on products or attaching labels to
goods or inscribing labels on separate sheets to be handed to customers.
II. LABELING CONTENTS
1. Commodity forest products and commodities
processed from forest products:
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- Their common names shall be inscribed;
- Goods names are allowed to be inscribed in
combination with shapes, utility, size, names of raw materials, origins,
trademarks (if any) of goods. For example: Ironwood, pine wood, 1.2 m-long
school table; rattan basket, pine resin, ironwood chest, pine word chest, Thanh
Hoa ironwood chest, etc.
b/ Names and addresses of organizations and
individuals, hereinafter collectively referred to as merchants responsible for
goods:
- In cases where merchants are those directly
exploiting and selling forest products to market, merchants trade in commodity
forest products and unprocessed forest products, merchants are establishments
processing and trading in commodities processed from forest products, including
preliminarily processed and finished products for consumption, they shall
inscribe names and addresses of their establishments;
- In cases where commodity forest products and
commodities processed from forest products are imported or sold by sale agents
for foreign merchants, names of importing merchants or names of sale agents
shall be inscribed.
c/ Goods quanta:
- For processed commodity forest products to be
used as raw materials, their length x width x thickness in meter, centimeter or
millimeter shall be inscribed; if goods are packed in lots or bales, their
volume or size shall be additionally inscribed in cubic meter or square meter
for each goods lot or bale;
- Goods being finished products or product
details processed from timber or non-timber forest products, goods quantum
shall be piece or set depending on each kind of goods. For finished products,
their sizes being length x width x height shall be inscribed; for products
details, their sizes being length x width x thickness shall be inscribed.
- For non-timber forest products (trunks,
branches, leaves, tubers, roots, blossoms, fruits, seeds, peels, oils, resins,
etc.) their quanta shall be inscribed under the guidance in the Trade
Ministry’s Circular No. 34/1999/TT-BTM of December 15, 1999.
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- For a commodity being sawn timber from the
same plant species, the name of such species shall be inscribed. If it is from
various plant species, the wood groups shall be inscribed;
- Commodities processed from non-timber forest
products, assorted artificial boards, home wood furniture, builders’ carpentry,
articles made of rattan and bamboo of various kinds, etc., the following
commodity quality standards shall be inscribed: grade I, II, III, IV or A, B,
C, D, if such commodities are subject to grading standards. Particularly for
home wood furniture made of timber, apart from grades (I, II, III, IV or A, B,
C, D), names of timber used for making such furniture must also be inscribed.
e/ Date of manufacture, expiry and preservation
duration:
- For commodity forest products being artificial
boards, home wood furniture, builders’ carpentry, articles made of bamboo or
rattan of various kinds, etc., the month and year of manufacture thereof
(except for commodities being non-timber forest products) shall be inscribed.
- For non-timber forest products in raw, dried,
preliminarily processed or processed form, the day, month and year of
exploitation or production must be clearly inscribed. For commodities with use
deadlines, such deadlines must be inscribed. For commodities that need
preservation, the preservation conditions must be inscribed.
f/ Commodity origin:
- If forest products and commodities processed
from forest products are imported, the names of the exporting countries must be
shown, for example: rubber wood from Cambodia;
- For non-timber forest products, only addresses
at provinces or centrally-run cities where such products are exploited shall be
inscribed, for example: cinnamon from Yen Bai province;
- For commodity forest products and commodities
processed from forest products for export or import into Vietnam for consumption, the origin thereof must be inscribed. In cases where the origin of
Vietnamese exports is requested by foreign customers not to be inscribed, the
inscription thereof shall be exempt until the end of December 31, 2002.
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a/ Commodity names:
- Names of cereals and farm produce shall be
clearly inscribed in combination with their color or origin (if any). For
example: rice CR 203, rice San Uu 63, hybrid maize LVN10, lotus peanut.
- For other cereal grains and farm produce seeds
being local specialties, names of such goods may be followed by names of
localities where they are produced, with a hyphen between them. For example: Tam
thom rice - Hai Hau, lotus peanut - Nghe An;
- For cereal grains being special or peculiar
commodities, the commodity names shall be inscribed first, which are followed
by codes of breeds for producing such commodity, with a hyphen between them.
For example: high-protein maize - HQ2000, high-protein rice - P6.
b/ Names and addresses of merchants responsible
for commodities:
- For merchants producing cereal grains or farm
produce and seeds directly selling their products, and trading or service
merchants, they shall inscribe names and addresses of their organizations and
individuals;
- If cereals are imported commodities or
commodities sold by sale agents of foreign merchants, names of merchants
responsible for commodities shall be the names of importing merchants or sale
agents.
c/ Goods quanta:
For cereal grains, assorted farm produce seeds
put up in packs, the commodity quantity being net weight in kilogram (kg) or
gram (g) shall be inscribed.
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- For cereal grains and assorted farm produce
seeds put up in packs, quality standards shall be inscribed according to
quality grade of I, II or III (if any) together with the principal quality
standards. For example: grade-I maize;
- For other genetically modified cereal grains
and farm produce seeds, the phrase "genetically modified product"
must be inscribed, for the customers’ choice.
e/ Date of manufacture, expiry and preservation
methods:
- Date of manufacture: The month and year of
harvesting commodity products must be clearly inscribed on packing. For
example: Produced in October 2001;
- Use deadlines: Day, month and year being
deadlines for use must be clearly inscribed;
- Preservation methods: Conditions for
preservation.
f/ Use purposes:
It must be inscribed on the packing that the
packed grains are commercial products, not for seeding.
g/ Commodity origin:
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III. ORGANIZATION OF IMPLEMENTATION
Merchants that produce commodity forest products
and commodities processed from forest products, cereal grains and other farm
produce seeds in packs attached with goods labels, which are allowed to be
circulated and used in Vietnam, shall have to revise the labeling of their
products under the Prime Minister’s Decision No.178/1999/QD-TTg of August 30,
1999 and Directive No.28/2000/CT-TTg of December 27, 2000, the Trade Ministry’s
Circular No.34/1999/TT-BTM of December 15, 1999 and this Circular.
Merchants engaged in the import of forest
products and commodities processed from forest products, cereal grains and
other farm produce seeds in packs from foreign countries must notify suppliers
of contents compulsory to be inscribed on labels of imported commodity
products, in order to unify implementation methods.
This Circular takes effect as from January 1,
2002.
The previous regulations on labeling applicable
to forest products, commodities processed from forest products, cereal grains
and farm produce seeds in packs, which are contrary to this Circular, are
hereby annulled.
Any difficulties or problems arising in the
course of implementation should be promptly reported to the Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development for appropriate amendments and supplements.
FOR THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE
AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
VICE MINISTER
Nguyen Van Dang
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