Resolution 15/2026/NQ-CP – suspending Decree 46/2026 on food safety

Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the Government No. 63/2025/QH15;

Pursuant to the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents No. 64/2025/QH15 as amended and supplemented by Law No. 87/2025/QH15;

At the proposal of the Ministers of: Health, Agriculture and Environment, Industry and Trade, and Justice;

The Government promulgates the Resolution to suspend the effectiveness of Decree No. 46/2026/NĐ-CP dated January 26, 2026 by the Government detailing the implementation of certain provisions and measures to organize and guide the implementation of the Law on Food Safety, and Resolution No. 66.13/2026/NQ-CP dated January 27, 2026 by the Government on the announcement and registration of food products.

Article 1. Suspend the applicability of the document

Temporarily suspend the validity of application until the amended Law on Food Safety and the decree guiding the implementation of the amended Law on Food Safety come into effect for the following documents:

1. Decree No. 46/2026/NĐ-CP dated January 26, 2026, of the Government detailing the implementation of certain provisions and measures to organize and guide the implementation of the Law on Food Safety.

2. Resolution No. 66.13/2026/NQ-CP dated January 27, 2026, of the Government on the announcement and registration of food products.

Article 2. Application of documents during the period of temporary suspension of validity

During the period of temporary suspension of validity under the provisions of Article 1 of this Resolution, Decree No. 15/2018/NĐ-CP dated February 2, 2018, of the Government detailing the implementation of certain provisions of the Law on Food Safety and the documents stipulating and guiding its implementation shall continue to be effective.

Article 3. Responsibility for implementation

1. Ministries: Health, Industry and Trade, Agriculture and Rural Development, and Environment

a) Proactively guide the organization in implementing this Resolution according to the assigned management sector.

b) Strengthen the implementation of inspection plans, periodic and sudden monitoring, supervision, guidance, and handling of violations regarding food safety in the process of production, export, import, and trading of food, the tasks that have been assigned, and the tasks that have been delegated within the assigned management sector.

c) Proactively review, amend, supplement, and promulgate legal normative documents, National Technical Regulations (QCVN), professional guidelines, and internal procedures within the scope of the assigned management in the field of food safety.

d) Proactively review the 2010 Law on Food Safety to propose amendments and additions according to functions and tasks, and send them to the Ministry of Health for compilation and development of the amended Law on Food Safety; participate in the development of the amended Law on Food Safety, the Decrees guiding the amended Law on Food Safety, and related guiding documents of the amended Law on Food Safety.

d) Regularly propagate and disseminate legal documents, technical and professional guidance in the field of food safety to associations, enterprises, and relevant subjects for awareness and implementation.

2. In addition to the responsibilities specified in Clause 1 above, ministries and sectors have the following responsibilities:

a) Ministry of Health: Inspect, monitor, supervise, and handle violations regarding the registration of product announcement dossiers and advertising for products, goods, and services within the assigned management field; production conditions for establishments that have been granted a Certificate of Eligibility for Food Safety meeting Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) requirements for health supplement products and establishments complying with good manufacturing practices for herbal and traditional medicine participating in the production of health supplements.

b) Ministry of Industry and Trade: Inspect, review, monitor, supervise, and handle violations in food business activities, counterfeit goods, prohibited goods, smuggled goods, and other commercial fraud related to food on e-commerce platforms, promptly detecting and handling violations according to regulations.

c) Ministry of Science and Technology: Strengthen inspection, monitoring, and supervision of the activities of organizations registered for accreditation (including laboratory accreditation activities); coordinate with the Ministries of Health, Industry and Trade, Agriculture, and Environment to review, complete, and ensure the adequacy of national standards (TCVN) on food.

d) Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism: Strengthen management of advertising activities according to functions and tasks related to food under the provisions of Article 24 of Decree No. 342/2025/NĐ-CP dated December 26, 2025 of the Government detailing certain articles of the Advertising Law.

3. People's Committees of provinces and cities

a) Regularly propagate and disseminate legal normative documents and professional technical guidelines in the field of food safety to commune-level authorities, associations, enterprises, and relevant subjects to be aware of and implement.

b) Strengthen the implementation of regular inspection plans; carry out sudden inspections, monitoring, supervision, guidance, promptly detect and handle violations regarding food safety, counterfeit food, banned goods, smuggled goods in the area, and other commercial fraud acts related to food on e-commerce platforms according to regulations and assigned and delegated tasks, with an emphasis on preventing food poisoning from street food, school canteens, and collective kitchens.

c) Publicly announce and update information on testing, inspection, and certification organizations in accordance with the provisions of Clause 4, Article 67 of Decree No. 22/2026/NĐ-CP dated January 16, 2026, of the Government detailing certain articles and measures to organize and guide the implementation of the Law on Standards and Technical Regulations.

d) Be responsible for and carry out the appointment or assignment of tasks to state inspection agencies for imported food safety, and testing facilities serving the state management of food safety according to the assigned division of responsibilities and authority; publicly list these facilities; ensure resources for implementation and prepare the conditions for implementation along with the time of drafting and submitting the Food Safety Law (amended).

d) Direct the agency receiving self-declaration dossiers to register the product declaration, allocate funds for sampling to monitor quality and safety indicators for products announced and circulating on the market; focusing on product groups used by high-risk groups such as children, the elderly, pregnant women, and patients. Based on the monitoring results, conduct inspections at production and business establishments, and in case of violations, handle them according to regulations.

4. Responsibility for coordination in implementation

The Ministries of Health, Agriculture and Environment, Industry and Trade, Finance, and the People's Committees of provinces and cities are responsible for completing the connection and data sharing with the National Public Service Portal to handle administrative procedures and manage food safety, unifying food safety management data from the central to local levels; promoting the application of artificial intelligence in food product management.

Article 4. Transitional provisions

For dossiers submitted before the effective date of this Resolution, they shall continue to be resolved in accordance with the provisions of Decree No. 15/2018/NĐ-CP dated February 2, 2018, of the Government detailing the implementation of certain articles of the Law on Food Safety and related regulatory and guiding documents.

Article 5. Effectiveness

1. This resolution takes effect from the date of signing and issuance and replaces Resolution No. 09/2026/NQ-CP dated February 4, 2026, of the Government suspending the validity and adjusting the application period of Decree No. 46/2026/NĐ-CP dated January 26, 2026, and Resolution No. 66.13/2026/NQ-CP dated January 27, 2026.

2. Ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and the People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities are responsible for implementing this resolution.

Recipients:

- Central Party Secretariat;

- Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Ministers of the Government;

- Ministries and ministerial-level agencies;

- People's Councils and People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities;

- Central Office and the Party's Committees;

- Office of the General Secretary;

- Office of the President;

- Office of the National Assembly;

- Ethnic Council and the Committees of the National Assembly;

- Supreme People's Court;

- Supreme People's Procuracy;

- State Audit;

- Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front;

- Central agencies of political-social organizations;

- Government Office: Chief of Office, Deputy Chiefs, Assistant to the Prime Minister, General Director of the Electronic Information Portal,

Departments, Bureaus, affiliated units, Official Gazette;

- Saved: VT, KGVX (2).

ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT

ON BEHALF OF THE PRIME MINISTER

DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER

[Signed]

Lê Thành Long