10 prohibited acts in maritime boundary areas of Vietnam

According to Article 4 of Decree No. 71/2015/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, Vietnamese and foreign agencies, organizations and individuals that carry out or are involved in activities in maritime boundary areas of Vietnam are prohibited from conducting the following 10 acts in maritime boundary areas:

- Illegally building or installing facilities and equipment or committing acts that are detrimental to the safety of border facilities.

- Discharging, dumping or burying hazardous substances, industrial waste, nuclear waste or other hazardous wastes causing environmental pollution; firing, launching or releasing substances that cause harm or threaten to cause harm to national defense, security, the economy, human health, environment, or social safety.

- Conducting research, investigation, survey, exploration or exploitation without permission of competent Vietnamese agencies.

- Organizing illegal entry into, exit from and transit through the country for persons, or harboring, guiding or transporting persons for illegal entry, exit or transit.

- Performing military exercises with any type of weapon or in any form without permission of competent Vietnamese agencies.

- Flying into no-flight zones; firing, launching or releasing flying devices that threaten to cause harm to national defense, security, the economy or aviation safety; or launching vessels or objects in violation of Vietnam’s law.

- Filming, photographing, drawing, video recording or carrying out radio reception and transmission activities in restricted areas or prohibited zones.

- Exploiting or salvaging assets, objects or antiques without permission of competent Vietnamese agencies.

- Illegally purchasing and selling, exchanging, storing, transporting or using weapons, flammables, explosives, hazardous substances, narcotics, banned goods and articles, precious metals, gemstones or foreign currencies; illegally embarking or disembarking persons or goods onto or from vessels.

- Waterway craft anchoring or taking shelter outside designated places or obstructing maritime or inland waterway navigation in maritime boundary areas against regulations on anchorage and taking shelter at such places, if any.

View full text at Decree No. 71/2015/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from October 20, 2015.

Thu Ba

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