What does the Vietnamese railway system include? What are the prohibited acts in railway activities in Vietnam?
What does the Vietnamese railway system include?
Pursuant to the provisions of Clause 1, Article 10 of the Law on Railway Transport 2017, it is clearly stated that Vietnamese railway system includes:
Vietnamese railway system includes national railway, urban railway and specialized railway, to be specific:
- National railway satisfies the transport demands of the country, each economic region and international transportation;
- Urban railway satisfies the transport demands of passengers in urban areas and surrounding areas;
- Specialized railway satisfies the transport demands of each organization or individual.
What does the Vietnamese railway system include? What are the prohibited acts in railway activities in Vietnam? (Image from the Internet)
What are the prohibited acts in railway activities in Vietnam?
Pursuant to the provisions of Article 9 of the Law on Railway Transport 2017, it clearly states that prohibited acts in railway activities include:
- Sabotaging railway works and railway vehicles.
- Encroaching upon railway safety corridors and safety perimeters of railway works.
- Opening passages crossing a railway without permission; illegally building flyovers, underpasses, culverts or other works built within the land area for rail transport; illegally carrying out drilling or digging operations within safety perimeters of railway works.
- Tampering with works and railway signaling; covering or tampering with railway signals.
- Obstructing the train operation; arbitrarily using signals or equipment to stop trains, unless a threat to railway safety is found.
- Trespassing fences or barriers of level crossings when the block signal is given; trespassing fences that separate a railway from adjacent areas.
- Discharging untreated sewage onto railways; placing obstacles and dumping hazardous substances or waste on railways; illegally placing flammable or explosive substances within safety perimeters of railway works and railway safety corridors.
- Herding animals and opening up markets on railways and within safety perimeters of railway works and railway safety corridors.
- Walking, standing, lying, sitting or performing other acts on roofs of coaches, locomotives, steps; hanging, standing, sitting on sides of coaches, locomotives, or connectors; opening train doors, poking the head, arm, leg, or other things out of the coach when the train is running, except for railway workers and law enforcement officers on duty.
- Walking, standing, lying, sitting or performing other acts on railway lines, except for railway workers and law enforcement officers on duty.
- Throwing earth, stones or other objects at or from the train.
- Bringing or transporting prohibited goods or animal that carries contagious diseases to the station or to the train; illegally bringing or transporting wild animals, radioactive/flammable/explosive substances and dangerous goods to the station or the train; bringing or transporting corpses or bones to the station or to the train running on urban railways.
- Making or using counterfeit tickets; selling tickets against the law.
- Allowing any railway vehicle or equipment that fails to meet technical safety requirements to operate on railways; using cargo coaches to transport passengers; changing the structure, design or functions of vehicles without permission; assigning or allowing another person who is ineligible to operate a railway vehicle.
- Assembling coaches that contain animals, stinky goods, flammable/explosive substances, hazardous substances, or other dangerous goods into a passenger train.
- Operating trains beyond the speed limits.
- Railway workers directly serving train operation are under influence of alcohol or other banned stimulants in the performance of their duties.
What are the incentives and support for investment in railway activities in Vietnam?
Pursuant to the provisions of Article 6 of the Law on Railway Transport 2017, it is clearly stated as follows:
Incentives and support for investment in railway activities
1. Railway infrastructure business, rail transport business, urban railway business and railway industry are business lines eligible for investment incentives.
2. An organization or individual involved in railway activities shall be eligible for incentives and support as follows:
a) They are allocated land without paying land levy on the land area used for construction of urban and railway infrastructure; the land for construction of specialized railway infrastructure and railway industrial work shall be exempted from land rent.
b) According to the actual sources, the State shall lend them a fund charged at the interest rate of preferential investment from the State investment or they shall be provided with government-guaranteed loans according to regulations of law on management of public debt for development of national and urban railway infrastructure; investment in and procurement of railway vehicles, machines and equipment for railway maintenance; development of railway industry;
c) The railway infrastructure enterprise, urban railway enterprise and railway industry enterprise shall be eligible for incentives for enterprise income tax rate according to regulations of the Law on Enterprise Income Tax;
d) They shall enjoy exemption from import duties on machines, equipment, components, railway vehicles, raw materials for manufacture of machines and equipment or spare parts of machines and equipment necessary for construction of railway infrastructure that is yet to be domestically produced.
3. An organization or individual invested in construction of national and urban railway infrastructure shall be provided with funding by the State for clearing the land for rail transport that is used for construction of railway infrastructure.
4. An organization or individual doing railway infrastructure business shall be provided with a separate frequency bands in service of the control of rail transport and traction power network in service of train operation.
Accordingly, an organization or individual involved in railway activities shall be eligible for incentives and support as follows:
- They are allocated land without paying land levy on the land area used for construction of urban and railway infrastructure; the land for construction of specialized railway infrastructure and railway industrial work shall be exempted from land rent.
- According to the actual sources, the State shall lend them a fund charged at the interest rate of preferential investment from the State investment or they shall be provided with government-guaranteed loans according to regulations of law on management of public debt for development of national and urban railway infrastructure; investment in and procurement of railway vehicles, machines and equipment for railway maintenance; development of railway industry;
- The railway infrastructure enterprise, urban railway enterprise and railway industry enterprise shall be eligible for incentives for enterprise income tax rate according to regulations of the Law on Enterprise Income Tax;
- They shall enjoy exemption from import duties on machines, equipment, components, railway vehicles, raw materials for manufacture of machines and equipment or spare parts of machines and equipment necessary for construction of railway infrastructure that is yet to be domestically produced.
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