Legal Document Updates in English (40/2013)

FINE UP TO VND 30 MILLION TO ACT OF VIOLATING REGULATIONS ON MARRIAGE BROKERAGE

Decree No. 110/2013/ND-CP dated of September 24th, 2013 of the Government on regulating sanction of administrative violation in the field of judicial assistance, judicial administration, marriage and family, civil judgment enforcement, enterprise and cooperative bankruptcy.
Accordingly, some remarkable regulations on the sanction level are applied to violations of birth registration, marriage registration, marriage brokerage, ethnics and gender redefinition… Specifically, a fine of between VND 20,000,000 and 30,000,000 shall be imposed for the acts of illegal marriage brokerage; a fine of between VND 3,000,000 and 5,000,000 shall be imposed for the acts of forging papers for the ethnics and gender redefinition…
Simultaneously, the Decree also remove homosexual marriage from marriage cases under prohibition. Accordingly, the act of violating regulations on prohibition of marriage and violating monogamy regulations include: Getting married between people with relatives within three generations, getting married between

adoptive parents and adopted children, being married but living as husband and wife with another person, being single but living as husband and wife with another person known as married person… The sanction level applied for these cases increases from VND 100,000 – 500,000 to VND 1 million- 3 million.
Besides, the Decree also details the regulations towards administrative violations on judicial assistance, judicial administration, civil judgment enforcement, enterprise bankruptcy… such as: A fine of between VND 10 million- 20 million and VND 7 million- 10 million shall be imposed for acts of colluding or lowering price by tricks during the auction and cheating at property participation conditions, respectively…
This Decree takes effect on November 11, 2013.

TO GIVE INSTRUCTIONS OF REGISTRATION FEE BEFORE TRANSFERRING AUTOMOBILES WITH DIPLOMATIC NUMBER PLATE

On October 14, 2013, the Ministry of Finance issued Circular No.  140/2013/TT-BTC on amending and supplementing the Circular No. 34/2013/TT-BTC dated March 28, 2013 of the Ministry of Finance which details the registration fee.
Accordingly, for automobiles bearing diplomatic number plate, foreign number plate and international number plate specified in Clause 2 Article 4 of the Decree No. 45/2011/ND-CP transferred to other organizations or individuals in Vietnam (Not under objects specified in Clause 2 Article 4 of the Decree No. 45/2011/ND-CP), the transferring organizations or individuals shall do procedures for declaration, submission of import tax, excise tax, value-added tax in accordance with regulations and payment of the registration fee at the rate for the first time (From 10% to 15%) in accordance with regulations of the

TO PROLONG THE LOANING DURATION OF EXPORT CREDIT UP TO MAXIMUM 36 MONTHS FOR COFFEE

This content is regulated in Decree 133/2013/ND-CP dated October 17, 2013 of the Government on amending and supplementing the Decree No. 54/2013/ND-CP DATED MAY 22, 2013 and on supplementing the Government’s Decree No. 75/2011/ND-CP dated August 30, 2013 on State’s investment credit and export credit.
In this Decree, the Government decided to prolong the maximum loaning duration up to 36 months for loan of State’s export credit applied to export headings being coffee and processed cashew nuts,  

TO CHANGE THE DURATION OF CONTINUOUS TRAINING IN HEALTH SECTOR

On August 9, 2013, the Ministry of Health issued Circular No. 22/2013/TT-BYT on guiding on continuous training in health sector.
Accordingly, the remarkable regulation details the duration of continuous training for medical officers. Specifically, the medical officers, who have been granted certificate of practice and are practicing in medical examination and treatment, have obligation to participate in continuous training courses of 48 periods of learning in 2 consecutive years minimally instead of accumulating continuous training course of 120 periods of learning in 5 consecutive years minimally as they did before. Medical officers, who practice in medical examination and treatment, fail to implement fully the training obligation in 2 consecutive years prescribed in this Circular, are withdrawn certificate of practicing in accordance with law on medical  

MORE THAN 80% OF THE POPULATION WILL ENJOY HEALTH INSURANCE BY 2020

This is one of the target of the Strategy on development of Vietnam’s social insurance sector through 2020 approved by the Government in Decision No. 1215/QD-TTg of July 23, 2013.
Accordingly, social insurance and health insurance are two important social policies and the main pillar of the social security system that must be gradually expanded to increase participants, contribute to realizing social progress and justice and ensure social-political stability and socio-economic development. The strategy sets out the 2020’s target to reach 50% of the workforce in social insurance, 35%  of those in unemployment insurance and more than 80% of the population in health insurance by 2020.
Simultaneously, it ‘s necessary to ensure the application of TCVN ISO 9001:2008 quality management system to activities of agencies in the entire sector by 2015; to grant each citizen participating in social insurance and health insurance with an identification number that conforms with the citizen identification number stipulated by the State to serve and manage the collection process, policy settlement, and the payment of social, unemployment and health insurance in an accurate and convenient manner; and ensure the uniform management of the insured identification numbers from 2016.

FUNCTIONS, TASKS, POWERS AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF THE VIETNAM NEWS AGENCY

On August 1, 2013, the Government promulgated Decree No. 88/2013/ND-CP on defining the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Vietnam News Agency.
The Vietnam News Agency is a government-attached agency which performs the function of a state news agency in the publication of news and official documents of the Party and the State; supplies information for the requirements of the Party leadership and state management; collects and disseminates information through various means of communication to supply for mass media agencies and the public and to meet demands at home and abroad.
Specifically, Vietnam News Agency has the responsibilities to collect, compile, publish and disseminate information products to supply for mass media agencies, the public and to meet demands at home and abroad; to produce and broadcast the television news channel to perform essential political and information tasks of the nation; to perform the foreign service news task assigned by the Party and the State; to collect and disseminate information about Vietnam in various languages for domestic agencies