On October 20, 2014, the Ministry of Transport promulgated Circular No. 54/2014/TT-BGTVT dated October 20, 2014, amending Circular No. 31/2011/TT-BGTVT stipulating the inspection of technical safety, quality and environmental protection in manufacturing and assembling motor vehicles.
Under this Circular, after the product is granted the Certificate, the workshop shall start mass production, inspection of quality during production, assembly for each product and must ensure that all these products must meet the standard, technical regulations the same way as the product inspection dossier and certified typical sample. Each product from mass production must be inspected as a finished product by the workshop in either of the following manners: inspection under the quality management agency’s supervision and self-inspection.
For the finished product inspection under the quality management agency’s supervision, the quality management agency shall carry out the supervision on the finished production inspection at motor vehicle manufacturing and assembling establishments in the following cases: Those involved in the production, assembly of motor vehicles for the first time; Those turning out unstable products; Those turning out products showing unconformity with the product inspection dossier and typical sample of the certified product types; Those having no technician in charge of the finished product inspection; Those committing some violation relating to use of finished product inspection note; Workshops erasing, modifying, and re-stamping VIN and engine number on their own choice… Time for each inspection period is 6 months or 500 products.
If the workshop out of the list of subjects under supervision as stipulated are permitted to perform finished product self-inspection. Quality management agencies may carry out unexpectedly investigation. If the workshops are found to have violated the regulations concerning quality inspection, the Certificate shall be suspended, revoked or application of supervision to be exercised as mentioned above.
This Circular takes effect on December 15, 2014.
