Decree 195: Guidance on procedures for publication registration in Vietnam

Specifically, according to Article 10 of Decree No. 195/2013/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, procedures for publication registration of publishing houses are as follows:

- Before publishing works and materials or re-publication, the publisher shall register the publishing with the Ministry of Information and Communications under prescribed form. The registration content must be consistent with the principles and purposes, functions and tasks of the publisher, regardless of the quantity of works, documents and publications registered each time, and publishing houses shall take responsibility before law for the contents of publication registration.

- A publication registration dossier comprises:

+ A written registration with a summary of subject matters, topics and contents of each work or document registered for publishing, publications registered for re-publishing and other information, made according to the form provided by the Minister of Information and Communications;

+ The written content appraisals for works or documents subject to content appraisal.

- Within 7 working days after receiving a complete publication registration dossier from a publishing house, the Ministry of Information and Communications shall certify the publication registration in writing and grant publication registration certification numbers for each work, document or publication registered for re-publishing, and international standard book numbers (ISBNs); in case of refusal to certify publication registration, it shall issue a written reply clearly stating the reason.

- In the course of registration certification, the Ministry of Information and Communications may request publishing houses to seek appraisal for or give explanations about works or documents registered for publishing or publications registered for re­publishing to serve the publication registration.

- The written publication registration certification serves as a basis for a publishing house to issue publication decisions for each work, document or to-be-re-published publication. The deadline for issuing publication decisions is December 31 of the year of registration certification; if failing to publish a work or document or re-publish a publication, the publishing house shall report such to the Ministry of Information and Communications before March 31 of the year following the year of registration certification, and the granted publication registration number and ISBN will be no longer valid.

- The Minister of Information and Communications shall specify the management, position and size of, technical requirements for, and method of inscribing publication registration numbers and ISBNs, and the method of conducting online publication registration.

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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