Legal Updates

Smuggling, illegal transport of goods across the border, trade frauds and counterfeits remain complicated with sophisticated trickeries associated with corruption causing loss to state budget and natural resources, imposing negative impacts on environment of investment, trading and international integration..On June 09, 2015, the Government issued the Resolution No. 41/NQ-CP...

Not to require investors to carry out the planning licensing procedure; contents of the planning license must be shown right in the result of settlement of the procedure of approving the investment policy is the task that the Government emphasized at the Resolution No. 43/NQ-CP dated June 06, 2014[...]

In accordance with the Circular No. 01/2017/TT-BXD dated February 06, 2017 guiding the determination and management of construction survey costs, project owners shall assume the prime responsibility for ensuring quality of construction surveys and managing construction survey costs. Within that, construction survey costs shall be correctly and fully calculated for...

In accordance with the Circular No. 07/2015/TT-BTTTT dated March 24, 2015 of the Ministry of Information and Communications on telecommunication connectivity, within 30 working days from the day on which a telecommunications enterprise is determined to be the one holding the essential instruments, such enterprise shall prepare, submit directly...

On November 26, 2014, the Ministry of Information and Communications promulgates the Circular No. 18/2014/TT-BTTTT detailing the Government’s Decree No. 187/2013/ND-CP of November 20, 2013, on the grant of import licenses for radio transmitters and radio transceivers; deciding terrestrial cell phones that are consigned together or not together with...

On September 19, 2016 the Ministry of Health issued the Circular No. 33/2016/TT-BYT providing for organization and performance of microorganism tests in hospitals. In accordance with this Circular, the Department of Microbiology is a specialized department subject to the direct management of the Hospital’s Director. Department of Microbiology is functioned...

On January 16, 2017, the Prime Minister issued the Decision No. 60/QD-TTg on approving the plan for development of gas industry of Vietnam by 2025 with the vision to 2035, Invest in development of the gas industry sector with all stages which are organized in a complete and uniform...

On November 24, 2016, the Ministry of Finance issued the Circular No. 312/2016/TT-BTC defining financial regulations with respect to deposit insurance of Vietnam, a financial institution that is operating in the form of a single-member limited liability company of which 100% charter capital is held by the State, having...

This circular provides guidelines for determination of the unit labor cost in the management of the construction cost. The unit labor cost is calculated according to the following formula: GNC= LNCx HCBx 1/t Where: GNC: The unit labor cost paid to an employee who directly produces their output in a working day. LNC : The...

This is one of the important contents prescribed at the Decree No. 145/2016/ND-CP dated November 01, 2016 of the Government on amending the Government’s Decree No. 108/2013/ND-CP dated September 23, 2013 on penalties for administrative violations against regulations on securities and securities market. In particular, from December 15, 2016, any...