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THE
MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY
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SOCIALIST
REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom – Happiness
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No.
115/2004/QD-BCN
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Hanoi,
October 27, 2004
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DECISION
PROMULGATING
THE REGULATION ON CRITERIA OF AUTOMOBILE-MANUFACTURING AND/OR -ASSEMBLING
ENTERPRISES
THE MINISTER OF INDUSTRY
Pursuant to the Government's
Decree No. 55/2003/ND-CP of May 28, 2003 on the functions, tasks, powers and
organizational structure of the Ministry of Industry;
Pursuant to the Prime Minister's Decision No. 175/2002/QD-TTg of December 3,
2002 approving the Strategy on development of Vietnam's automobile industry
till 2010, with a vision towards 2020;
Pursuant to the Prime Minister's Decision No. 177/2004/QD-TTg of October 5,
2004 approving the Planning on development of Vietnam's automobile industry
till 2010, with a vision towards 2020;
In order to make investment in the manufacture and assembly of automobile in
strict accordance with the development planning and with efficiency; and to
ensure the products' quality and market competitiveness;
At the proposal of the director of the Science and Technology Department,
DECIDES:
Article 1.-
To issue together with this Decision the Regulation on criteria of
automobile-manufacturing and/or -assembling enterprises.
Article 2.-
This Decision takes effect 15 days after its publication in the Official
Gazette.
Article 3.-
The Director of the Office, the Chief Inspector, the directors and heads of
departments and units of the Ministry, the presidents of the
provincial/municipal People’s Committees and the concerned organizations and
individuals shall have to organize the implementation of this Decision.
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FOR THE MINISTER
OF INDUSTRY
VICE MINISTER
Do Huu Hao
REGULATION
ON
CRITERIA OF AUTOMOBILE-MANUFACTURING AND/OR -ASSEMBLING ENTERPRISES
(Issued
together with the Industry Minister's Decision No. 115/2004/QD-BCN of October
27, 2004)
Chapter I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1.-
Scope and subjects of application
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Article 2.-
Interpretation of terms and phrases
In this document, the following
terms and phrases shall be construed as follows:
1. Cars, passenger cars and
trucks mean automobile prescribed under Vietnamese standards TCVN 7271: 2003
and TCVN 6211:2003.
2. Automobile assembly means the
process of assembling details, detail assemblies and parts into complete
automobiles.
3. Component assembly means the
assembly of details into complete detail assemblies such as engines, gearboxes,
chassis, cases, driver's cabs, passenger compartments, cargo trunks.
4. Automobile chassis means the
system of pressure-bearing structures to be assembled with engines, driver's
cabs, cargo trunks, passenger compartments, steering systems, wheel assemblies,
transmission systems and other parts of automobiles.
5. Automobiles' body means the
whole chassis, case and floor of automobiles.
Chapter II
CRITERIA OF AUTOMOBILE-MANUFACTURING AND/OR
-ASSEMBLING ENTERPRISES
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Automobile-manufacturing and/or
-assembling enterprises must meet the following conditions:
1. Having their feasibility
study reports appraised and approved according to the State's current
regulations on construction and investment management; having the assembly
capacity (for one production shift) of at least 3,000 passenger cars/year;
5,000 trucks of a tonnage of up to 5 tons /year; 3,000 trucks of a tonnage of
between 5 and 10 tons/year; 1,000 trucks of a tonnage of over 10 tons/year; and
10,000 cars /year.
2. Having adequate production
space and workshops for arrangement of technological chains for manufacture,
assembly and testing; having designing, technology and quality-testing
sections, detail-preserving stores, production-administration areas,
waste-treating works, storing-yards, test-runs and other supporting works.
Workshops must be built in conformity with plannings on local industrial
development on land plots under enterprises' lawful use right or with lease contracts
of a duration of at least 20 years.
3. Having adequate designing
dossiers for each category of automobiles to be manufactured and/or assembled,
which have been appraised and approved by competent agencies according to
current regulations; not violating industrial property rights and having
license contracts on technology transfer from original manufacturers regarding
the following objects: products' designs, trademarks, technological know-how,
documentary information and training.
4. Having manufacture and/or
assembly workshops, covering areas for welding, painting and testing, arranged
according to appropriate technological process. Charts on the overall
technological process and each manufacture or assembly stage must be arranged
right at prescribed places in the workshops for workers to comply with. The
workshops' floors must be covered with anti-slippery paint and marked with line
to demarcate safe aisles and working grounds.
5. Having adequate equipment and
facilities to ensure industrial sanitation and labor safety, reduce hazards
(noise, heat, dust), prevent and fight fires and explosions and treat wastes
(solid, liquid and gaseous) in strict accordance with current regulations; to
ensure landscape, environment and industrial civilization.
6. Having separate test-runs at
least 500 m long, which satisfy technical requirements, so as to test the
quality of to-be-delivered assembled automobiles when running on flat, gravel,
bumpy, submerged, slope, turning and slippery roads.
Article 4.-
Technological chains for assembly
1. Chains for assembling
automobiles' chassis and bodies must be equipped at least with the following
main devices:
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b/ Compressed air riveting
equipment;
c/ Hydraulic lift, special-use
pushcarts and systems of guide rails for pushcarts;
d/ Welding fixtures for
assembling left sides, right sides, roofs, floors, tails, chassis and case
assemblies for cars; fixtures for welding and assembling spars and beams of
passenger cars' and trucks' chassis;
e/ Iron-sheet stretching
equipment for passenger cars;
f/ Fixtures for assembling cargo
trunks into trucks' bodies;
g/ Fixtures exclusively used for
assembling case pieces and assemblies into chassis;
h/ Attached auxiliary and repair
equipment and devices.
2. Technological chains for
general assembly and automobile assembly include: assembly of components, understructure
systems, rear wheel-drive, front wheel-drive and engines into chassis and
assembly of main control assemblies, interior equipments and system of doors
and side doors into automobiles' bodies…
Besides, assembly chains shall
be equipped with supporting devices such as compressed air supply system,
special-use pushcarts, compressed air bolt and screw drivers; fixtures for
assembling engines into chassis; special-use fixtures for assembling
understructure systems (with lifting equipment for cars and light trucks);
trestle works for assembling understructure systems of passenger cars and
trucks; tire fixers; special-use dynamic balancing machines, etc.
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Article 5.-
Painting technological chains
1. Depending on the requirements
of each type of automobiles to be assembled, enterprises shall have to equip
suitable automatic or semi-automatic painting chains, covering the following
main steps:
a/ Cleaning by high-pressure
water;
b/ Degreasing and surface
treatment;
c/ Acid- and mineral-removing
tanks and regulating tanks
d/ Phosphating;
e/ Electrolytic
immersion-painting tanks, painting rooms (electrostatic paint-spraying or
pressure paint-spraying), drying rooms;
f/ Injecting PVC into welding
joints and plastic colloid into understructure of automobiles' bodies for waterproofing;
g/ Decoration painting, gloss
painting of outermost coat and wax covering for paint protection.
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a/ For cars (of up to 9 seats):
The inner coats of bodies must be painted by electrolytic immersion-painting
technology while the outer coats may be painted by electrostatic or pressure
paint-spraying.
b/ For passenger cars: Chassis
and cases of cars of up of 15 seats must be painted like cars' bodies; chassis
and cases of cars of 16 seats or over may be painted by electrostatic or
pressure paint-spraying for the first 2 production years. After that period,
enterprises must apply the painting technology of electrostatic paint-spraying.
c/ For trucks: Chassis of
assorted trucks and cases of trucks of a tonnage of up to 3.5 tons must be
painted like cars' bodies. Cases of trucks of a tonnage of over 3.5 tons may be
painted by electrostatic paint-spraying or pressure paint-spraying for the
first 2 production years. After that period, enterprises must apply the
painting technology of electrostatic paint-spraying.
Enterprises must fully equip
devices for testing the quality of painting coats such as thickness, brightness
and surface adheresiveness.
Automobile-manufacturing and/or
-assembling enterprises may cooperate with others to make investment in
advanced painting technology for ex-factory automobiles to reach technical
requirements mentioned in Clause 2 of this Article.
Article 6.-
Technological chain for checking assembly quality
Automobile-assembling chains
must be equipped with special-use testing devices for each assembly stage and
equipment in order to test ex-factory norms according to current regulations,
including safety norms and exhaust concentration. The testing of ex-factory
norms must be carried out for 100% of assembled automobiles. Testing results
must be processed and archived on computer system.
Before their delivery, assembled
automobiles must be put on test runs according to testing process set by
manufacturing establishments.
The inspection of adjustment of
testing devices must be carried out according to the State’s current
regulations.
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Enterprises shall, basing
themselves on the Industry Ministry's direction for the implementation of the
Program and solutions to develop automobile manufacture till 2010, have to
formulate and implement their programs and measures for the development of
automobile manufacture according to the schemes already approved by competent
authorities, in compatibility with the strategy and planning on the development
of automobile industry till 2010, with a vision towards 2020, already approve
by the Prime Minister.
Article 8.-
Organization and management of enterprises
Automobile-manufacturing and/or
-assembling enterprises must also meet the following conditions:
1. Having sections for designing
and technological research as well as product-quality inspection; having
adequate staff to receive the transfer of advanced technologies, and research
and improve products; having full dossiers on design, technology and quality
standards related to each category of products;
2. Having strategies on
production and business development, programs and plans on human resource
development as well as on cooperation with specialists and training of
technical officials and workers;
3. Being granted the certificate
of application of quality management system under ISO 9001:2000 or one of other
advanced quality management systems to their production and business activities
(TQM, QS 9000) within 24 months as from the date of commencement of automobile
manufacture and/or assembly and certificate of application of environmental
management system ISO 14001 within 36 months;
4. Having the networks of sale, warranty,
maintenance and post-sale service agents.
Chapter III
IMPLEMENTATION ORGANIZATION
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1. For new projects, investors
shall base themselves on the criteria in this Regulation to elaborate dossiers
on investment projects for submission to competent authorities for approval,
and implement such projects after they are approved.
2. The provincial/municipal
Industry Services shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate
with provincial/municipal functional agencies in, appraising dossiers and
making field inspection, then proposing the provincial/municipal People's
Committees to consider and certify enterprises' qualification for automobile
manufacture and assembly as prescribed in this document before the plants are
officially put into operation.
3. Enterprises which have been
licensed by competent authorities for investment in automobile manufacture
and/or assembly before the effective date of this documents shall have to
complete additional investment before July 1, 2005 and submit dossiers thereon
to the provincial/municipal People's Committees for the latter to consider and
certify their satisfaction of criteria of automobile-manufacturing and/or
-assembling enterprises as prescribed in this Decision.
Article 10.-
Reporting regimes
1. Enterprises shall have to
make biannual and annual reports on their investment, production and business
results to the provincial/municipal People's Committees; to bear responsibility
before law for, and submit to the inspection and supervision by concerned State
management agencies of their automobile import-export, manufacture, assembly
and trading activities.
2. The provincial/municipal
Industry Services shall have to synthesize the investment, production and
business situation of automobile-manufacturing and/or -assembling enterprises
in their respective localities and annually report such to the Ministry of
Industry before December 15 for monitoring, management and reporting to the
Prime Minister.
Article 11.-
Inspection of the implementation of the Regulation
The Department for Science and
Technology shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with
functional agencies and concerned agencies and units in, organizing the
inspection of the implementation of this Regulation.