Decree No. 112/2014/ND-CP dated November 21, 2014 of the Government providing the management of land border gates

SUBJECTS ALLOWED TO EXIT AND ENTRY THE LAND BORDER GATES

On November 21, 2014, the Government issued the Decree No. 112/2014/ND-CP providing the management of land border gates and replaces the Government’s Decree No.32/2005/ND-CP of Marcy 14, 2005, on the Regulation on Land Border Gates; within  that supplement the principles on the subjects allowed to exit and entry the land border gates.

In particular, persons eligible to enter and exit a border gate area includes passengers on exit or entry; cadres, combatants, employees and civil servants of specialized state management agencies or related state agencies with working offices in the border gate area; employees of agencies and organizations and individuals conducting service and commercial activities in the border gate area; persons operating or working onboard vehicles carrying imports or exports, or passengers on entry or exit; goods owners, persons dealing in exports and imports  who enter and exit the border gate area for carrying out goods import and export procedures; persons coming to work with specialized state management agencies or related agencies with working offices in the border gate area; and persons coming for medical examination and treatment (if there exist in the border gate area a healthcare zone for medical examination and treatment). Besides, persons entering or exiting the border gate area for visit, guest reception or seeing off or other purposes shall obtain permits and are subject to the inspection, control, supervision and instruction of border-gate border guard posts.

Other important contents are that Vietnamese and foreign vehicles on exit and entry via border gates must have vehicle registration paper; cross-border transport permit, transport permit; passenger transport permit (for passenger vehicles); papers on cargo procedures (for cargo vehicles); technical safety inspection and environmental protection certificate; civil liability insurance paper, for vehicle owners; other papers prescribed by Vietnamese law or treaties to which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a contracting party. Vehicle operators and persons onboard vehicles on entry or exit must possess such papers as vehicle operation license (for vehicle operators); and other papers prescribed by law and treaties on land transport to which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a contracting party.