THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE
THE GENERAL DEPARTMENT OF CUSTOMS
Official Dispatch No. 4881/TCHQ-GSQL dated August 21, 2013 of the General Department of Customs on food import’s procedure
Respectfully to: Customs Departments of provinces and cities
General Department of Customs has received information from several enterprises about matter when do procedures for food import, enterprises must submit the announcement of regulation conformity or announcement of conformity with regulation on food safety for export food to customs agencies.
Regarding this matter, on May 30, 2013, the Department of Customs Management Supervision issued official dispatch No. 475/GSQL-GQ1 answering the HCM city Customs Department but has not yet clearly stated name of function agencies to which enterprises must submit the announcement of regulation conformity or announcement of conformity with regulation on food safety for export food.
In order to solve the above problem, General Department of Customs has opinion as follows:
1. According to the Clause 1 Article 38, point b Clause 1 Article 40 of the Law on food safety; Clause 1 Article 3 of the Government’s Decree No. 38/2012/ND-CP, dated April 25, 2012 and Clause 6 Article 20 of the Decree No. 94/2012, dated November 12, 2012; Clause 2 Article 6 of the Circular No. 27/2012/TT-BYT dated November 30, 2012 and Clause 1 Article 7 of the Circular No. 19/2012/TT-BYT dated November 09, 2012 of the Ministry of Public Health (for foods under the management of Ministry of Public Health), enterprises must submit the register of announcement of regulation conformity or announcement of conformity with regulation on food safety to functional agencies of Ministries managing food safety.
