What is the list of 20 commercial goods on which monopoly is held by the State of Vietnam?
- What is the list of 20 commercial goods on which monopoly is held by the State of Vietnam?
- What are the principles of state monopoly on commercial activities in Vietnam?
- Vietnam: What are the regulations on revisions to the List of commercial goods and services on which monopoly is held by the State and geographical areas thereof?
What is the list of 20 commercial goods on which monopoly is held by the State of Vietnam?
Article 5 of Decree 94/2017/ND-CP stipulates the list of commercial goods and services on which monopoly is held by the State and geographical areas thereof as follows:
- The list of commercial goods and services on which monopoly is held by the State and geographical areas thereof (hereinafter referred to as “the List”) is promulgated together with Decree 94/2017/ND-CP.
- The list comprises of goods and services on which monopoly is held by the State and the commercial activities corresponding to such goods and services.
Accordingly, 20 commercial goods on which monopoly is held by the State of Vietnam are promulgated together with Decree 94/2017/ND-CP as follows:
No. | Goods/services | Commercial activities in which monopoly is held by the State | Geographical areas |
1. | Goods, services and geographical areas serving national defense and security | Minister of National Defense, Minister of Public Security shall provide guidance on the implementation | Specified by Minister of National Defense, Minister of Public Security |
2. | Industrial explosive materials | Production, purchase, sale, export, import, temporary import, re-export, transit | Nationwide |
3. | Gold bar | Production | Nationwide |
4. | Gold materials | Export and import for production of gold bar | Nationwide |
5. | Lottery | Issuance | Nationwide |
6. | Cigarettes and cigars | Import (except for importing for sale as duty-free goods) | Nationwide |
7. | National reserve activities | Management, import, export, purchase, sale, preserve and protection of goods on the list of national reserves | Nationwide |
8. | Cash | Printing and molding | Nationwide |
9. | Postage stamps of Vietnam | Issuance | Nationwide |
10. | Fireworks and other activities related to fireworks | Production, purchase, sale, export, import, transport, storage | Nationwide |
11. | National power system; | Transmission, dispatching | Nationwide |
Multi-purpose hydropower and nuclear power projects particularly important to the economy and society | Construction and operation | Nationwide | |
12. | Maritime safety services | - Operation of the system of lighthouses; - Operation of public navigable channel systems | Nationwide |
13. | Coastal communication services | Management and operation of the coastal communication station systems | Nationwide |
14. | Air navigation | - Air traffic services; - Aeronautical information notification; - Search and rescue | Nationwide |
15. | State-invested national and municipal railroad infrastructure | Railroad infrastructure system management and operation; not including the maintenance and repair of railroad infrastructure | Nationwide |
16. | Irrigation system, inter-provincial and inter-district agricultural hydraulic engineering; stone revetment | Management and operation if assigned | Nationwide |
17. | Forestry services in special use forest | Service provision (Except for the landscape protected forests leased to the economic organization by the State for forest protection, development and combination of landscape business, resort, eco-environmental tourism | Nationwide |
18. | Publishing products | Editing (not including printing and publishing) | Nationwide |
19. | Public postal network | Management, maintenance, exploitation | Nationwide |
20. | Public services in press publishing | Supplementation | Nationwide |
Accordingly, the list of 20 commercial goods on which monopoly is held by the State of Vietnam is regulated as above.
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What are the principles of state monopoly on commercial activities in Vietnam?
Article 4 of Decree 94/2017/ND-CP stipulates the principles of implementing state monopoly in commercial activities:
- The State only holds monopoly on essential goods and services that are related to national defense or security or national interests security or those that other economic sectors are not able or do not wish to provide.
- A regulatory agency shall hold monopoly on commercial activities whether directly or by assigning another organization or individual. The assignment must be decided in writing by the head of a competent authority.
- State monopoly on commercial activities shall be implemented under the supervision of regulatory agencies according to regulations.
- Ministries, ministerial-level agencies and local authorities shall not regulate which activities, goods, services on which monopoly is held by the State and geographical areas thereof. The Minister of Defense and the Minister of Public Security shall provide guidance on goods/services serving national defense and security on which monopoly is held by the State and geographical areas thereof.
Vietnam: What are the regulations on revisions to the List of commercial goods and services on which monopoly is held by the State and geographical areas thereof?
Article 6 of Decree 94/2017/ND-CP stipulates the regulations on revisions to the List as follows:
- Revisions to the list shall be made in consideration of requests for State management proposed by ministries, ministerial-level agencies or provincial People's Committees or the written proposals expressing the desire and ability of enterprises of all economic sectors to participate in commercial activities related to goods and services on which monopoly is held by the State in the list.
- Ministries and ministerial agencies shall review suggestions of enterprises of all economic sectors to evaluate capability of enterprises for satisfying the conditions for business investment, conditions for ensuring security, defense, national interests and other conditions as prescribed by relevant laws.
- The Ministry of Industry and Trade shall collect the proposals and cooperate with relevant ministries, ministerial agencies to review, evaluate such proposals and request the Government to consider revising the List.
- The procedures for requesting and making revisions to the list shall comply with the law provisions on the elaboration of legal documents applied to amendment and supplementation of the Government's Decree.
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