REP27 · EU representative · Vietnam
Article 27 GDPR · Vietnam
If your company is established in Vietnam and you offer goods or services to people in the European Union — or you monitor their behaviour — Article 27 of the GDPR requires you to designate, in writing, a representative inside the Union. We are that representative: named in your privacy notice, reachable by all 27 supervisory authorities, and verifiable by anyone holding the code on your certificate.
Decree 13/2023 governs personal data in Vietnam. It does not replace Article 27 for a Vietnamese company that reaches people in the European Union.
Visible from outsideThis is the only GDPR duty a regulator can check without an investigation: the absence is written in your own privacy notice, on a page you publish yourself.
Software outsourcing for European clients, electronics assembly, textile and footwear exporters, and agricultural products.
One sale might be occasional. A product that European customers can buy today, tomorrow and next month is not, and Article 27(2)(a) does not apply.
Many files start with a product built for a home market that quietly acquired European users. Intent is not the test; the presence of the users is.
European controllers are audited on their processors. That is why the designation appears in questionnaires before it appears in enforcement.
Decree 13/2023 introduced comprehensive personal data rules in Vietnam, with impact assessment filings to the Ministry of Public Security. It does not replace Article 27.
the Ministry of Public Security, under Decree 13/2023. None of them can receive a request under Article 27(4) on your behalf, and none of them appears in your privacy notice for European purposes.
Vietnamese companies reach the Union through software outsourcing for European clients, electronics assembly, textile and footwear exports, and agricultural products.
One designation, published in your notice, verifiable by anyone with the code. Requests logged and forwarded within two business days, with the GDPR deadline already counted for you.
Your electronic signature and ours. Article 27(1) wants it in writing; a one-sided declaration is weaker than most companies assume.
One line of HTML that reads the register in real time: green while the designation is active, red the moment it lapses. Nobody can display a status they no longer hold.
A Greek or Polish data subject writes in their own language. The desk reads it, logs it and forwards it with the deadline already counted.
As a processor under Article 3(2) the duty is still yours, and clients increasingly ask for the designation before signing a data processing agreement.
Different documents, similar discipline. What you prepare for the Ministry usually contains most of what we hold under Article 30(4), which speeds up the onboarding.
If you only handle goods and no personal data of people in the Union, you may not be. Run the free check and tell us the structure — we would rather say no than take a fee.
The designation letter and certificate are issued within 24 working hours of the form and payment, after a person reviews the file. Higher-risk sectors take up to five business days.
From €290 a year, billed annually in advance and renewing automatically until you cancel before the renewal date. No fee per request from the Standard plan up.
No. Under EDPB guidance one entity cannot be both. We are the contact point under Article 27(4): we receive, log and forward, hold your Article 30 records, and never answer on the merits or give legal advice.
Vietnamese software firms are the largest group here, and for them the designation is a sales document as much as a legal one.
Free check first: we read your public privacy notice and tell you in ten seconds whether a representative is named. If one is, we say so and you close the tab.
Run the free check