Vietnam Sanitary and Phytosanitary Notification Authority and Enquiry Point

The  "Regulations  of  import  risk  assessment  for  regulated articles  with  capability  of  propagation"  (hereinafter  referred  to  as  the  Regulations)  is based  on  Paragraph  4,  Article  14  of  the  Plant  Protection  and  Quarantine  Act. 
The Regulations  are  compiled  and  adjusted  the  hierarchy  of  related  requirements regarding import risk assessment. The main content of the Regulations are as follows:
1.  The application procedure and documents or information required for pest assessment for the first time imported regulated articles with capability of propagation;
2.  Implementation method of pest risk assessment;
3.  The basis for re-initiating the risk assessment when the quarantine pest epidemic of the approved regulated articles with capability of propagation is changed;
4.  In  order  to  allow  certain  experimenting,  researching,  teaching,  legal  depositing  or exhibiting, etc., if there is a need to import the regulated articles with capability of propagation from a country or district which have no  import record, the documents and materials required for application are included.