HANOI: Demand for child safety seats surges ahead of a July 1 requirement for young children to use restraint systems in cars, but no testing or certification body has yet been authorised to certify the products.
This has prompted the Vietnam Register to seek temporary measures from the Construction Ministry to address the bottleneck.
Under the Law on Road Traffic Order and Safety, children under 10 years old and shorter than 1.35 m travelling in passenger cars must use appropriate child restraint systems from July 1.
They will be exempt when travelling on passenger transport service vehicles.
To implement the requirement, the Transport Ministry, now the Ministry of Construction, issued national technical standard QCVN 123:2024/BGTVT on child restraint systems, effective from Jan 1.
According to the Vietnam Register, child safety seats are classified as medium-risk products and must obtain conformity certification before manufacturers, importers and distributors can complete conformity declaration procedures and place them on the market.
However, no organisation has yet been granted a registration certificate to become an authorised certification body for QCVN 123:2024/BGTVT. — Viet Nam News/ANN
