Rail locomotives (excl. those powered from an external source of electricity or by accumulators); locomotive tenders (HS code(s): 8602)

Circular stipulating the inspection of quality, technical safety and environmental protection of railway vehicles; (36 page(s), in Vietnamese)

This draft Circular provides for the inspection and certification of quality, technical safety and environmental protection for equipment of railway vehicles in imported inspection and railway vehicles in manufactured, assembled, imported, converted, periodical inspection, in order to operate on national railways, urban railways, special-use railways with rails connected to national railways and special-use railways without rails with railways that passes through a residential area, intersects with a road.

This draft Circular does not apply to equipment installed on railway vehicles imported in complete units.

This draft Circular applies to organizations and individuals involved in the importation of railway vehicles equipment; the importation, manufacture, assembling, converting, repairing and exploiting railway vehicles operating on railway systems and organizations related to management, inspection and issuance of quality, technical safety and environmental protection certificates for equipment of railway vehicles and railway vehicles specified in Article 1 of this Circular. This draft Circular shall replace the Circular No. 29/2018/TT-BGTVT dated May 14, 2018 of the Minister of Transport on the inspection of quality, technical safety and environmental protection of railway vehicles.