Circular No. 18/2018/TT-BNNPTNT on amending and repealing the Circular No. 13/2016/TT-BNNPTNT on Veterinary Drug Management.

This Circular is issued to amend and repeal some Articles of the Circular No. 13/2016/TT-BNNPTNT on Veterinary Drug Management.
Article 31 is amended as follows: “Article 31. Application of the methods for testing veterinary drugs 1. The testing of drugs shall be conducted according to the registered or assigned testing methods as regulated by laws. 2. For the veterinary drugs of which the testing methods are not registered or assigned or are only temporarily assigned, the quality evaluation shall be carried out based on the quality testing results of the competent agency of the importing country or of the laboratory recognized by the evaluation organization signing the Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) within the Asia Pacific Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (APLAC); International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) or the reference laboratory of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).” Other amendments are made on Article 20, 21, 22, 30, 32, 34, 45, 49, etc. Article 35 and the Appendices XXXVII, XXXVIII, XXXIX are repealed.