About 38 percent of Vietnam’s national standards system has been developed by way of
adoption of relevant international and regional standards (e.g. ISO, IEC, Codex), The
process of national standards development is supposed to be transparent to the public,
from the incipient stages of development up until the standard is issued and published.
According to the Law on Standards and Technical Regulations and the Government
Decree No. 127/2007/ND-CP, and the Government Decree No. 67/2009/ND-CP dated 3
August 2009, existing mandatory standards should be reviewed for appropriate
conversion into technical regulations or withdrawn by December 2011.