Circular No. 06/2023/TT-BYT dated March 12th, 2023 of the Minister of Health on providing amendments to certain Articles of the Circular No. 15/2019/TT-BYT dated July 11, 2019 of the Minister of Health of Vietnam prescribing bidding for supply of drugs for public health facilities

This Circular amends, supplements to some regulations of Circular No. 15/2019/TT-BYT regarding bidding for supply of drugs, vaccines, biological medical products, herbal ingredients. To be specific:

- Responsibility to develop and implement drug supplier selection plans at regulated at Article 4;

- Sorting of generic drug contract package regulated at Article 7;

- Criteria for selection of a contract package of original brand-name drugs regulated at clause 2 Article 8;

- Sorting of contract packages of herbal drugs, drugs containing herbal materials combined with active pharmaceutical ingredients and traditional drugs regulated at Article 9;

- Sorting of contract packages of traditional medicinal materials regulated at Article 10;

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This Circular takes effect from April 27th, 2023.

To replace Clause 2 Article 3, Clause 4 Article 27, Point c Clause 3 Article 32, Point h Clause 4 Article 45 and Clause 9 Article 50 of the Circular No. 15/2019/TT-BYT dated July 11th, 2019; Article 5 of the Circular No. 15/2020/TT-BYT dated August 10th, 2020; Points a, b, c, dd Clause 8 Article 1 of the Circular No. 29/2020/TT-BYT dated December 31st, 2020 .