On May 10, MIC Vietnam officially issued Circular No. 04/2018/TT-BTTTT on the list of products subject to MIC certification and conformity declaration to replace the existing Circular No. 42/2016/TT-BTTTT. The new notice will come into effect on July 1, 2018. The official notice 04/2018/TT-BTTTT is different from the first draft released by MIC Vietnam in January, 2018.

 

        The new regulations specify that short-range wireless devices must undergo type certification and conformity declaration. This means that even if the maximum RF power of these products is less than 60 MW (the 60 MW rule applies only to the products listed in Item 2.1 of Appendix 1 to this notification), bluetooth, WLAN, Zigbee, Lora and other Internet of Things or SRD applications require type authentication and SDOC certificates. This is the main difference between the official notice 04/2018/TT-BTTTT and the first draft.