Chương I Thông tư 11/2021/TT-BKHCN hướng dẫn xây dựng và áp dụng tiêu chuẩn: Quy định chung

Chapter I

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1. Scope

This Circular provides for the planning, development, appraisal, publishing of national standards; application of national standards, international standards, regional standards and foreign standards; development and announcement of internal standards.

Article 2. Regulated entities

This Circular applies to state agencies, organizations and individuals involved in the planning, development, appraisal, publishing of national standards; application of national standards, international standards, regional standards and foreign standards; development and publishing of internal standards in Vietnam.

Article 3. Definitions

For the purposes of this Circular, the terms below are construed as follows:

1. National standards are standards whose development is organized by a Ministry or head of a ministerial-level agency, appraised and published by the Ministry of Science and Technology following established procedures;

2. National standard fields are two or more groups of national standard subjects that are related within an industry or sector under state management specified in Clause 1 Article 23 of the Government's Decree No. 127/2007/ND-CP dated August 01, 2007 elaborating some Articles of the Law on Technical Regulations and Standards dated August 01, 2007 (hereinafter referred to as “Decree No. 127/2007/ND-CP"), which is amended by Clause 7 Article 1 of the Government’s Decree No. 78/2018/ND-CP dated May 16, 2018 (hereinafter referred to as “Decree No. 78/2018/ND-CP").

National standard fields shall be determined according to the International Classification for Standards (ICS) of International Standardization Organization (ISO).

3. National adoption of an international standard, regional standard or foreign standard means announcing that a national standard has identical correspondence or is modified in relation to an international standard, regional standard or foreign standard;

4. An international standard is a standard announced by an international standardization organization or an international organization operating in the field regulated by the standard;

5. A regional standard is a standard announced by a regional standardization organization or a regional organization operating in the field regulated by the standard;

6. A foreign standard is a standard announced by a foreign standardization organization or a foreign organization operating in the field regulated by the standard (professional associations, research institutes, etc.);

7. An internal standard is a standard announced by a business organization, social-professional organization, state agency, public service provider for application within such organization;

8. Application of a standard means the use of such standard for management, production, sale of goods, services, processes, environment and other socio-economic activities.