Directorate for Standards, Metrology and Quality

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Main Services

- To provide information on standardization, metrology, productivity and quality .
- To conduct training courses on standardization, metrology and quality.
- To calibrate, manufacture, install and test measurement standards and instruments.
- To provide technical advisory services on the development of branch and company standards.
- To provide consultancy on the development, application and certification ofquality assurance systems.
- To certify product quality in conformity with international, national standards.
-To conduct testing on quality of products, goods and construction units.
- To offer accreditation programs for Laboratories, Certification Bodies, Inspection Bodies and a joint registration program for Auditor.

Functions, Tasks and Power

Position and functions

The General Department of Standardization, Metrology and Quality Control is an agency attached to the Ministry of Science and Technology, performing the function of State management over standardization, metrology as well as product and goods quality according to law provisions.

The General Department of Standardization, Metrology and Quality Control has the legal person status and its seal bearing the national emblem, is a grade II-budget estimating unit and has its own accounts. The General Department is headquartered in Hanoi city.

Tasks and powers

The General Department of Standardization, Metrology and Quality Control shall perform the tasks and exercise the powers according to law provisions on standardization, metrology as well as product and goods quality, other relevant law provisions, as well as the following specific tasks and powers:

1. To elaborate and submit to the Minister of Science and Technology legal documents on standardization, metrology as well as product and goods quality; to guide and organize the implementation thereof after they are promulgated.

2. To elaborate and submit to the Minister of Science and Technology development policies, strategies, plannings, plans and measures on standardization, metrology as well as product and goods quality; to guide and organize the implementation thereof after they are approved.

3. Regarding standardization:

a/ To assist the Minister of Science and Technology in performing the uniform State management over the system of Vietnamese standards, including:

- To elaborate and submit to the Minister of Science and Technology Vietnamese standards;

- To submit to the Minister of Science and Technology documents guiding the application of Vietnamese standards, international standards and foreign standards in Vietnam;

- To submit to the Minister of Science and Technology the list of products and goods subject to the application of Vietnamese standards, the list of products and goods subject to Vietnamese-standard compatibility certification.

b/ The General Department of Standardization, Metrology and Quality Control shall perform the following tasks:

- To guide the elaboration and registration of branch standards, and elaboration of establishments' standards according to law provisions;

- To assume the prime responsibility for participating in the elaboration of international and regional standards according to law provisions.

4. Regarding metrology:

a/ To assist the Minister of Science and Technology in performing the uniform State management over the system of measurement standards, including:

- To submit to the Minister of Science and Technology the plan on development of the national system of measurement standards; to assign agencies to keep and preserve national measurement standards;

- To submit to the Minister of Science and Technology for promulgation the regulations on measurements and measuring methods, and the regulations requesting the measurement organizations and individuals to create favorable conditions for measuring device-users to inspect measurements and measuring methods.

b/ The General Department of Standardization, Metrology and Quality Control shall perform the following tasks:

- To keep and preserve national measurement standards;

- To build and manage the system of national measurement standards; to guide ministries, branches and localities in building the system of measurement standards;

- To organize and manage the expertise and standardization of measuring devices, recognize the capability to expertise measuring devices;

- To certify standard samples, approve measuring-device samples before the production or import thereof according to law provisions;

- To grant and withdraw measurement expert's cards.

5. Regarding product and goods quality:

a/ To assist the Minister of Science and Technology in performing the uniform State management over the quality of domestically circulated products and goods as well as export and import goods, including:

- To submit to the Minister of Science and Technology for prescription the principles, conditions and criteria of the quality-recognizing, -certifying and -expertising organizations;

- To submit to the Minister of Science and Technology for prescription the quality-publicizing, -recognizing and -certifying activities;

- To submit to the Minister of Science and Technology the list of products and goods subject to State inspection over quality, bases for inspection, and the list of organizations designated to inspect product and goods quality;

- To submit to the Minister of Science and Technology for prescription the settlement of disputes over product and goods quality according to law provisions;

- To assist the Minister of Science and Technology in assuming the prime responsibility for, and coordinating with the concerned ministries and branches in, signing and implementing international agreements and treaties on mutual recognition in quality-recognizing and -certifying activities.

b/ The General Department of Standardization, Metrology and Quality Control shall perform the following tasks:

- To assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with the concerned agencies in, organizing inspection of the quality of products and goods at border gates and on the market;

- To assess, recognize and designate technical service organizations to participate in the State management over the quality of products and goods under the managing competence of the Ministry of Science and Technology;

- To coordinate with the concerned State agencies in designating technical service organizations to participate in the State management over the quality of products and goods under the managing competence of such agencies;

- To guide the quality-publicizing, -recognizing and -certifying activities.

6. To organize and conduct scientific research, professional and technical training and fostering, technology testing and transfer; to provide information, propagation and consultancy on standardization, metrology, quality, productivity, numeral codes and bar codes.

7. To enter into international cooperation on standardization, metrology, quality, productivity, numeral codes and bar codes according to law provisions; to represent Vietnam in international and regional organizations under decisions of competent State agencies.

8. To inspect, examine and handle according to its competence violations of the legislation on standardization, metrology, quality, numeral codes and bar codes.

9. To manage the collection of charges, fees and other remittances in standardization, metrology and quality activities and relevant domains according to law provisions.

10. To provide professional and technical guidance and examination to the standardization, metrology and quality agencies of ministries, branches, localities and establishments.

11. To guide and inspect activities of the standardization, metrology and quality control service non-business organizations.

12. To formulate and implement the General Department's administrative reform program according to the objectives and contents of the State administrative reform program of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

13. To manage organizational apparatus, officials and public employees as well as laborers of the General Department according to the Science and Technology Ministry's management decentralization and the State's regulations.

14. To manage finance and assets of the General Department according to law provisions.

15. To be entitled to directly contact relevant State agencies according to law provisions or under authorization of the Minister of Science and Technology.

16. To perform other tasks assigned by the Minister of Science and Technology.

General Informations

By the late 1950s, the quality control of products and merchandises was developed within the foreign trade and domestic trade ministries and some governmental industrial companies.

The Institute for Standardization and Metrology was established in 1962 in the North, and later on, the Department for Quality Control of Products and Merchandises was formed in 1971. Both were placed under the State Committee of Science and Technology. The formation of the above agencies marked significant turning points in the development of activities on standardization, metrology and quality in Vietnam.

In South Vietnam, the standardization activities were discussed among the goverment leaders of the Saigon regime from 1966 and the National Institute for Standardization was set up in 1972 on the basis of the Standardization Law.

Since the end of the Vietnam war (April 30th 1975), the standardization activities have been reorganized and coordinated on the State level throughout the country.

In 1979, the State Department for Standards, Metrology and Quality was established by emerging the existing standardization, metrology and quality agencies (in the North) and the Institute for Standardization (in the South). In early 1984, it was in turn reorganized into the General Department for Standards, Metrology and Quality.

Since 1995, the name of the General Department for Standards, Metrology and Quality in English has been changed to "Directorate for Standards, Metrology and Quality" (STAMEQ) which belongs to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (MOSTE) (now the Ministry of Science and Technology)

In 1999, the President of Vietnam promulgated an Ordinance on Metrology, an Ordinance on Good Quality and an Ordinance on the protection of Consumers’ interests which promote the development of standardization, metrology and quality control activities, in keeping with the Government's Renovation Policy.

STAMEQ is the national standards body of Vietnam and has been joined ISO as a member since 1977

On the celebration of the 50th anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh's signing of Decree 8/SL on Metrology (1950-2000), the Directorate of Standards, Metrology and Quality was conferred the highest distinction, the Labour Order, First Class by the State. On January 19th 2000, General-Secretary of the Vietnam Communist Party, Le Kha Phieu sent a letter of appreciation of achievements made by units and individuals in the field of metrology in the whole country.

On October 11, 2001 the Vice Prime Minster Pham Gia Khiem signed the Decision No. 155/2001/QD-TTg on Vietnam's Measurement Day.

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Standards, Metrology and Quality Branch, the State President Tran Duc Luong signed the Decision No. 714/2002/QD/TCN regulating awarding Directorate for Standards and Quality under Ministry of Science and Technology Independence Medal class 3 due to excellent achievements in work, great contributions to the work of socialist construction and Fatherland protection.