Category: Vietnam

The Vietnam Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) released a document called Circular No. 12/2023/TT-BTTTT on October 10, 2023. This document outlines the Frequency Band Planning for Vietnam’s IMT Mobile Communication System, specifically in the 1920-1980 MHz and 2110-2170 MHz frequency ranges.

Ministry of information and Communication MICT of Vietnam issue circular No: 04/2023/TT-BTTTT 

This Circular stipulates the List of potentially unsafe products and goods under the management responsibility of the Ministry of Information and Communications

Circular No. 02/2022/TT-BTTTT dated 16 May 2022 of the Minister of Information and Communications, which provides for the list of unsafe products and goods under the management responsibility of the Ministry of Information and Communications. The information and communication shall expire from the effective date of this circular 04/2023/TT-BTTTT 

The circular takes effect from 15 July 2023

Official announcement: 04/2023/TT-BTTTT  

The Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) of Vietnam has published a Draft Circular that will replace Circular 02/2022/TT-BTTTT, “Regulations on List of products and goods potentially to cause unsafety under the governance of the Ministry of Information and Communications.”

Type approval certificates must be updated to the new standard and receive the new test reports for the new safety or EMC standards, which are clearly stated in the new circular.

MIC added new standards compared to Circular 02/2022/TT-TT-BTTTT:

The Vietnamese Regulator, MIC Issue a draft in the beginning of  2022 on regulating products that are mandatory to type approval certification and declaration of conformity. On May 16, 2022, MIC issued the Circular 02/2022/TT-BTTTT, “Regulations on List of products and goods potentially to cause unsafety under the governance of the Ministry of Information and Communications,” which will replace Circular 01/2021/TT-BTTTT and Circular 11/2020/TT-BTTTT, and will come into effect on July 1, 2022.

The Vietnamese Regulator, MIC, have issued a draft Circular to replace 11/2020/TT-BTTTT and 01/2021/TT-BTTTT, which are mandatory for Type Approval Certification and Declaration of Conformity.

The main additions are:

1)New QCVN technical standards are Updates,

      ⇒QCVN 128:2021/BTTTT (RF standard for 5G base station);

      ⇒QCVN 127:2021/BTTTT (RF standard for 5G SA – mandatory from 2022-07-01);

      ⇒QCVN 129:2021/BTTTT (RF standard for 5G NSA – mandatory from 2022-07-01);

      ⇒QCVN 124:2021/BTTTT (RF standard for Vehicle Radar 76-77GHz – mandatory from 2022-07-01);

      ⇒QCVN 123:2021/BTTTT (RF standard for SRD 40-246GHz) – mandatory from 2022-07-01);

       ⇒QCVN 65:2021/BTTTT (RF standard for WLAN 5.0GHz device – can be applied from 2022-05-01 and be mandatory from 2023-07-01)

       ⇒QCVN 22:2021/BTTTT (Safety standard for ICT product – importers are to comply with this standard themselves as the standard is not mandatory according to Annexes No. 1 and 2 of the Draft Circular)

2) A few products were moved from Annex No. 1 (compulsory for TA Certification and Declaration of Conformity) to Annex No. 2 (compulsory for Declaration of Conformity):

3)76-77 GHz vehicle radars;

4)General SRDs operating in the following bands:

         ♦13,553- 13,567 MHz,

         ♦26,957-27,283 MHz,

         ♦40,66-40,7 MHz,

         ♦5725-5850 MHz,

         ♦24,00-24,25 GHz,

         ♦61,0-61,5 GHz,

         ♦122-123 GHz,

         ♦244-246 GHz;

         ♦13.56MHz RFID;

         ♦Some of land mobile radio equipment.

3)Numerous positions were removed from the mandatory list:

• ♣5.8 GHz equipment which is used for transport application;
• ♣Marine VHF devices;
• ♣Inmarsat F77 devices;
• ♣Section “Other devices”.

Draft Circular may take effect on 01, July 2022. Official Document

The Ministry of Information and Communications of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (MIC) issued a new Circular 6/2021/TT-BTTTT. The Circular will enter in force from March 1, 2022. The Regulation itself becomes mandatory from July 1, 2022. It means that from July 2022 both imported and domestically produced 5G user equipment must meet the requirements specified in QCVN 127:2021/BTTTT to get access to the market of Vietnam. Official source here