06 cases in which the Ministry of Information and Communications of Vietnam shall refuse to certify publication registration

According to Decree No. 195/2013/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, the Ministry of Information and Communications shall refuse to certify publication registration in the following cases:

1. The publication registration contents do not conform with the operation guidelines, objectives, functions and tasks of the concerned publishing house;

2. Works and documents registered for publishing for publications registered for re-publishing are involved in disputes over copyright and related rights;

3. Works, documents and publications have been previously rejected for publication registration, banned from circulation, confiscated or destroyed by the Ministry of Information and Communications, or have been withdrawn or destroyed by the publishing house;

4. Works, documents or publications are to be published or re-published under joint publication plans with a partner that has been sanctioned for administrative violations in publication activities twice (2) or more times within 12 months counting from the date of being sanctioned for the first time, or a partner that does not satisfy the conditions prescribed for joint publication or fails to observe requirements of state management agencies of publication activities;

5. The publishing house fails to comply with management measures applied by state management agencies of publication activities in accordance with law;

6. Other cases decided by the Ministry of Information and Communications.

View more details at Decree No. 195/2013/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from March 01, 2014.

Ty Na

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