Criteria for identification of national security-related important works in Vietnam

Criteria for identification of national security-related important works in Vietnam (Internet image)

Decree 126/2008/ND-CP stipulates that a national security-related important work in Vietnam must satisfy the following criteria:

First, it has any of the following characteristics:

- Being a physical foundation particularly important for national security:

• An important defense or security work that, if encountering a breakdown or sabotaged, may weaken the national defense strength or directly affect the existence of the regime.

• A cultural or information and communication work that, if sabotaged or used as a tool for information and propaganda against the state power, may directly affect the people's mind or the existence of the regime.

• A work in which a nuclear technology is applied (research nuclear reactor or nuclear power plant) or a particularly important work in an economic or socio-political domain, or in traffic, dike, electricity, irrigation or construction sector that, if encountering a breakdown or sabotaged, may cause extremely severe consequences to the national economy or disasters threatening human life or the eco-environment.

- Being a place where many dossiers, documents, specimens and exhibits classified as state secrets or of particularly important political-diplomatic, cultural-historical, economic, scientific-technical values are stored or preserved; or where activities of studying and formulating lines and policies classified as state secrets are regularly carried out.

- Being a place where materials or substances which are extremely dangerous to human beings and the eco-environment are preserved.

- Other works under the Prime Minister's decisions.

Second, it requires the application of a special protection regime and absolute safety in the course of survey, designing, construction, management and use under the Ordinance on Protection of National Security-Related Important Works, this Decree and other relevant legal documents.

More details can be found in Decree 126/2008/ND-CP, which comes into force from December 31, 2008.

Ngoc Tai

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