Vietnam proposed National Technical Regulation on Safety of toys

Vietnam Standards and Quality Institute proposed:

1. Technical regulation is a proposed amendment to QCVN 03/2009-BKHCN National Technical Regulation on Safety of toys, in which two new technical requirements are inserted, which are (1) the limit of each phthalates in toys (not exceed 0.1% by weight), use TCVN 6238-6 (ISO 8124-6) Safety of toys as test method; (2) requirement for electric toys that according to TCVN 11332 (IEC 62115: Electric toys – Safety.) 
2. Technical regulation, new labelling requirement according to the Vietnamese new law on labelling (43/2017/NĐ-CP) is added.
3. Technical regulation specifies safety requirements for toys, respective tests and quality requirements for toys produced domestically, imported and made available on the market
4. Those products listed in Appendix are not within the scope of this draft technical regulation.

Product covered: Toys

HS code: 95

Proposed date of adoption: NA

Proposed date of entry into force: NA

Final date for comments: 05-02-2018

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