Abstract

This article examines Vietnamese criminal law provisions governing the offense of manufacturing and trading in counterfeit curative and preventive medicines. It clarifies the concept, characteristics, and constituent legal elements of the offense, including the protected legal interests, the object of the criminal conduct, the objective elements, the offender, and the subjective elements. Drawing on relevant criminal law provisions and pharmaceutical regulations, the article identifies the offence’s distinctive legal characteristics. The findings contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of its legal nature and provide a basis for researching and applying the relevant criminal law provisions in practice.

Keywords: Counterfeit medicines, curative medicines, manufacturing, preventive medicines, trading.