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SECTION II. GUIDES BY ARTICLES OF DECISION 18

IV. INSPECTION OF USED MACHINERY,

EQUIPMENT AND TECHNOLOGICAL LINES

Article 10 and Article 11 of Decision 18 stipulates provisions for the inspection certification and the
designation of inspection body respectively.

A. Inspection of Used Machinery, Equipment and Technological Lines

Article 10 provides the basic criteria of the inspection and certification for the individual machinery
and technological lines.

<Figure 23> Inspection of Used Machinery, Equipment and Technological Lines

Article 10. Certificate of inspection of used machinery, equipment and technological lines

1. A certificate of inspection of used machinery, equipment or technological line as regulated in this Decision
must, inter alia, include:
a) Name, manufacturing year, brand, number, model, name of country of manufacturing, and name of manufac-
turer of the used machinery or equipment;
b) Time and location of inspection;
c) Status of the inspected machinery, equipment or technological line (operating or out of order);
d) Inspection method or process; number and name of National Technical Regulation (QCVN), National Standard
(TCVN) or national standard of one of G7 countries or Korea with regard to safety, energy saving, and environ
mental protection (if any) employed to evaluate the conformity of technological line as regulated in Clause 1
Article 5 or evaluate the conformity of machinery or equipment as regulated in Clause 2 Article 6 hereof;

In case National Technical Regulation (QCVN), National Standard (TCVN) or national standard of one of G7
countries or Korea with regard to safety, energy saving, and environmental protection is not available when
inspecting used machinery, equipment or technological line, this content must be specified in the inspection certif-
icate.
dd) With regard to inspection of used technological lines: Evaluate and assess inspection results according to
each criterion specified in Clauses 1-5 Article 5 hereof, and reach the conclusion whether the used technological
line satisfies requirements in Article 5 hereof or not. Regarding the criterion specified in Clause 5 Article 5,
name of country, and name of manufacturer applying technologies, contact address, website (if any), and
capacity must be specified;
e) With regard to inspection of used machinery and equipment: Evaluate and assess inspection results according
to each criterion specified in Clause 1 and Clause 2 Article 6 hereof, and reach the conclusion whether the
used machinery or equipment satisfies requirements in Article 6 hereof or not;

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