In 2013 considerable and concrete progress was achieved in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (GVN)’s development of an agricultural biotechnology regulatory regime. In May 2013, GVN finalized the procedure for granting a bio-safety certificate to an agricultural biotech trait and in September 2013 GVN notified the procedure for granting the food and feed use certificate for an agricultural biotechnology trait to the World Trade Organization’s SPS Committee. The food and feed procedure circular will likely be finalized by the end of this year, meaning that the two main pieces of regulation necessary to commercialize agricultural biotechnology in Vietnam will be in place by early 2014.
